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Meaning of 'divine' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Divine [ a.]
- Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.
- Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.
- Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.
- Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods.
- 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.
- Presageful; foreboding; prescient.
- Relating to divinity or theology.
- One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
- A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
2 . Divine [ v. i.]
- To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
- To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
- To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.
3 . Divine [ v. t.]
- To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.
- To foretell; to predict; to presage.
- To render divine; to deify.

Meaning of 'divine' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . divine [ v]
Meaning (1):
- search by divining, as if with a rod
Example in sentence:
  • He claimed he could divine underground water
2 . divine [ s]
Meaning (2):
- being or having the nature of a god
Example in sentence:
  • 'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create;
  • the custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers;
  • the divine capacity for love;
  • the divine will
Meaning (3):
- appropriate to or befitting a god
Example in sentence:
  • a man of godlike sagacity;
  • man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers;
  • the divine strength of Achilles
Meaning (4):
- resulting from divine providence
Example in sentence:
  • a providential visitation;
  • providential care
Meaning (5):
- being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods
Example in sentence:
  • an elysian meal;
  • an inspired performance;
  • her pies were simply divine;
  • the divine Shakespeare
Meaning (6):
- emanating from God
Example in sentence:
  • divine guidance;
  • divine judgment;
  • everything is black or white...satanic or godly
Meaning (7):
- devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity
Example in sentence:
  • divine liturgy;
  • divine worship

Nearby Words:

divagation divalent divan divaricate divaricated divaricately divaricating divarication divaricator divast

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