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Divine Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Divine? [n] the Judeo-Christian God [n] a clergyman or other person in religious orders [adj] of such surpassing excellence as to suggest divine inspiration; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance" [adj] emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black1 or white...satanic or godlyt"-Saturday Rev. [adj] 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 [adj] resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a providential visitation" [adj] 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 [adj] devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity; "divine worship"; "divine liturgy" [v] discover intuitively [v] search by divining, as if with a rod, of underground water or metals [v] perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers Synonyms \| Synonyms for Divine: Almighty \| churchman \| cleric \| Creator \| ecclesiastic \| elysian \| glorious \| God Almighty \| Godhead \| godlike \| godly \| heavenly \| inspired \| Jehovah \| Lord \| Maker \| providential \| sacred \| superhuman Related Terms \| Find terms related to Divine: abbe \| ace \| admirable \| angelic \| answer \| anticipate \| apprehend \| assume \| augur \| awesome \| awful \| be afraid \| beaming \| beatific \| beautiful \| believe \| betoken \| blissful \| blooming \| bottom \| bright \| brilliant \| canonic \| canonist \| cast a horoscope \| cast a nativity \| celestial \| chaplain \| Christlike \| Christly \| chthonian \| churchman \| clear up \| clergyman \| cleric \| clerical \| clerk \| conceive \| conclude \| conjecture \| consecrated \| consider \| cool \| crack \| curate \| cure \| dandy \| daresay \| dazzling \| DD \| debug \| decipher \| decode \| deduce \| deem \| deific \| determine \| devastating \| discover \| disentangle \| divinity student \| do \| Doctor of Divinity \| doctrinal \| doctrinary \| dope \| dope out \| dowse for water \| dream \| dreamy \| ecclesiastic \| Elysian \| empyreal \| empyrean \| exalted \| excellent \| expect \| explain \| exquisite \| extramundane \| extraordinary \| fancy \| fantastic \| fathom \| feel \| figure out \| find out \| find the answer \| find the solution \| forebode \| forecast \| foreknow \| foresee \| foretell \| foretoken \| fortune-tell \| gather \| get \| get right \| gifted \| gilt-edged \| glamorous \| glorious \| glowing \| godlike \| godly \| golden \| gorgeous \| grant \| great \| groovy \| guess \| guess right \| hallowed \| hariolate \| have it \| heavenly \| hint \| hit it \| holy \| Holy Joe \| holy man \| hypothesize \| imagine \| immense \| incarnate \| incarnated \| indicate \| ineffable \| inenarrable \| inexpressible \| infer \| intercessional \| intercessive \| interpret \| intuit \| inviolable \| inviolate \| keen \| killing \| let \| let be \| made flesh \| magic \| magnificent \| make a prediction \| make a prognosis \| make a prophecy \| make out \| man of God \| Mariological \| marvelous \| mean \| mediative \| mediatory \| military chaplain \| minister \| neat \| nifty \| numinous \| open the lock \| opine \| padre \| paradisiac \| paradisial \| paradisian \| paradisic \| parson \| pastor \| perceive \| perfect \| physicotheological \| plumb \| point to \| preacher \| predict \| prefigure \| preindicate \| prelate \| presage \| presign \| presignal \| presignify \| presume \| presuppose \| presurmise \| pretypify \| prevision \| priest \| prognosticate \| prophesy \| propitiative \| propitiatory \| provisionally accept \| psych \| psych out \| puzzle out \| radiant \| ravel \| ravel out \| raving \| ravishing \| read palms \| read tea leaves \| read the future \| reckon \| rector \| redemptive \| religious \| repute \| resolve \| resplendent \| reverend \| riddle \| sacred \| sacrosanct \| saintly \| salvational \| sanctified \| say \| scholastic \| schoolman \| sensational \| seraphic \| servant of God \| shepherd \| shining \| signify \| sky pilot \| smashing \| solve \| soothsay \| sort out \| sparkling \| speculate \| spell \| spiritual \| splendid \| splendiferous \| splendorous \| splendrous \| sterling \| stunning \| sublime \| super \| superb \| supereminent \| superexcellent \| superfine \| superhuman \| superior \| superlative \| supernatural \| superphysical \| supply clergy \| supply minister \| suppose \| supreme \| surmise \| suspect \| swell \| take \| take for \| take for granted \| take it \| take to be \| tell fortunes \| tell the future \| terrific \| the Reverend \| the very Reverend \| theologian \| theological \| theologician \| theologist \| theologizer \| theologue \| theorize \| think \| token \| tonsured cleric \| transcendent \| transmundane \| tremendous \| typify \| understand \| undo \| unlock \| unravel \| unriddle \| unscramble \| unspeakable \| untangle \| untouchable \| untwist \| unutterable \| unweave \| vaticinate \| venerable \| visualize \| wonderful \| work \| work out See Also \| a Kempis \| bishop \| Blessed Trinity \| chiromance \| clergyman \| comprehend \| dowse \| God \| guess \| Holy Trinity \| hypostasis \| imagine \| look for \| man of the cloth \| opine \| ordainer \| pardoner \| perceive \| reckon \| reverend \| Sacred Trinity \| search \| seek \| suppose \| Supreme Being \| think \| Thomas a Kempis \| Trinity Divine In Webster's Dictionary \Divine"\, 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. \Divine"\, 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. \Divine"\, 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. \Divine"\, 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.

Divine Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Divine?

[n] the Judeo-Christian God
[n] a clergyman or other person in religious orders
[adj] of such surpassing excellence as to suggest divine inspiration; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance"
[adj] emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black1 or white...satanic or godlyt"-Saturday Rev.
[adj] 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
[adj] resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a providential visitation"
[adj] 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
[adj] devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity; "divine worship"; "divine liturgy"
[v] discover intuitively
[v] search by divining, as if with a rod, of underground water or metals
[v] perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers

Divine In Webster's Dictionary

\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.


\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.


\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.


\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.

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