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Divine

Divine (divine)
a.(?)
Di*vine"
[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; preëminent.

Divine

Divine (divine)
n.
Di*vine"
  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

Divine (divine)
v. t.
Di*vine"
  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

Divine (divine)
v. i.
Di*vine"
  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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