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Divine - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Divine : adj
1: emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance";
"everything is black1 or white...satanic or
godlyt"-Saturday Rev. [syn: godly]
2: resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a
providential visitation" [syn: providential]
3: being or having the nature of a god; "the custom of killing
the divine king upon any serious failure of
his...powers"-J.G.Frazier; "the divine will"; "the divine
capacity for love"; "'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to
create"-J.G.Saxe [syn: godlike]
4: devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity; "divine
worship"; "divine liturgy"
5: appropriate to or befitting a god; "the divine strength of
Achilles"; "a man of godlike sagacity"; "man must play God
for he has acquired certain godlike powers"-R.H.Roveref
[syn: godlike]
6: of such surpassing excellence as to suggest divine
inspiration; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine
Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance"
[syn: elysian, inspired]
(noun)
1: terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God [syn: Godhead,
Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty,
Jehovah]
2: a clergyman or other person in religious orders [syn: cleric,
churchman, ecclesiastic]
(verb)
1: perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive
powers
2: search by divining, as if with a rod; "He claimed he could
divine underground water"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Divine : \Di*vine"\, v. i.
1. To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination;
to utter prognostications.
The prophets thereof divine for money. --Micah iii.
11.
2. To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts. --Shak.
3. To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Divine : \Di*vine"\, a. [Compar. Diviner; superl. Divinest.]
[F. divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus,
dius, belonging to a deity; akin to Gr. ?, and L. deus, God.
See Deity.]
1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine
will. ``The immensity of the divine nature.'' --Paley.
2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. ``Divine
protection.'' --Bacon.
3. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious;
pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine
worship.
4. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of
the nature of a god or the gods. ``The divine Apollo
said.'' --Shak.
5. Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In
this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the
divinest mind. Sir J. Davies. ``The divine Desdemona.''
--Shak.
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king.
--Prov. xvi.
10.
But not to one in this benighted age Is that diviner
inspiration given. --Gray.
6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Obs.]
Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave
him. --Milton.
7. Relating to divinity or theology.
Church history and other divine learning. --South.
Syn: Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial;
pious; holy; sacred; pre["e]minent.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Divine : \Di*vine"\, n. [L. divinus a soothsayer, LL., a
theologian. See Divine, a.]
1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. ``Poets were the
first divines.'' --Denham.
2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
The first divines of New England were surpassed by
none in extensive erudition. --J.
Woodbridge.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Divine : \Di*vine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divined; p. pr. & vb.
n. Divining.] [L. divinare: cf. F. deviner. See
Divination.]
1. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to
conjecture.
A sagacity which divined the evil designs.
--Bancroft.
2. To foretell; to predict; to presage.
Darest thou . . . divine his downfall? --Shak.
3. To render divine; to deify. [Obs.]
Living on earth like angel new divined. --Spenser.
Syn: To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate;
forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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