# divine
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: dĭ-vīnʹ, IPA: /dɪˈvaɪn/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪn

### Etymology 1

From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”). Displaced native Old English godcund.

#### Adjective

divine (comparative more divine, superlative most divine)
* Of or pertaining to a god.
    Synonyms: deific, godlike, godly
    Antonyms: undivine, ungodly
* Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
    Synonyms: hallowed, holy, sacred
    Antonyms: godless, secular, ungodly
* Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
    Synonyms: supreme, ultimate
    Antonyms: humdrum, mediocre, ordinary
* Beautiful, heavenly.
    Synonyms: beautiful, delightful, exquisite, heavenly, lovely, magnificent, marvellous/marvelous, splendid, wonderful
    Antonyms: horrible, horrid, nasty, unpleasant
* (obsolete) Foreboding; prescient.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, / Misgave him.
* (obsolete, of souls) immortal; elect or saved after death
** 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, column 1:Now Thomas Mowbray do I turne to thee, And marke my greeting well: for what I ſpeake, My body ſhall make good vpon this earth, Or my diuine ſoule anſwer it in heauen.
** 1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age, Part 2:(Of that at leaſure) but the bloody ſtage On which to act, Generall this night is thine, Thou lyeſt downe mortall, who muſt riſe diuine.
** 1703, Charles Povey, Meditations of a Divine Soul: Or, the Chriſtian’s Guide, Amidſt the Various Opinions of a vain World, page 594:Then rouſe up, my Divine Soul, who art ready for Eternal Glory, and bid the World a final A-dieu, with all its fond Deluſions and gilded Baits of Folly: For the time is now at hand, when thou my moſt precious Jewel, muſt launch out into the Deep of Everlaſting Bliſs
* Relating to divinity or theology.
** 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:church history and other divine learning

##### Alternative forms

* Divine

##### Derived terms

* all-divine
* antidivine
* argument from divine hiddenness
* Book of Divine Worship
* countenance divine
* demidivine
* Divine Adoratrice of Amun
* divine afflatus
* divine coincidence
* divine command theory
* divine contentment
* divine countenance
* divine fallacy
* divine grace
* divine guidance
* divine healing
* divine inspiration
* divine intervention
* divine judgement, divine judgment
* divine kings
* divine kingship
* divine lady
* divine language
* divine law
* Divine Life Society
* divinelike
* Divine Liturgy
* divinely
* Divine Mercy Sunday
* divine messenger
* Divine Mind
* Divine Mother
* divine move
* Divine Mystery
* divineness
* Divine Office, divine office
* divine polity
* divine proportion
* Divine Providence
* divine ratio
* divine retribution
* divine revelation
* divine right
* divine rule
* divine section
* divine service
* divine simplicity
* divine spark
* divinesse
* Divine Unity
* divine will healing
* Divine Word Missionaries
* divinisation
* divinish
* divinization
* Feast of the Divine Mercy
* Gate of Divine Might, Gate of Divine Prowess
* indivine
* metadivine
* Mother Divine
* nondivine
* Revelation of Saint John the Divine
* semi-divine, semidivine
* Society of the Divine Savior
* subdivine
* superdivine
* The Church of Divine Science
* The Divine Comedy
* The Divine Praises
* to err is human, to forgive divine
* undivine
* undivinelike

##### Translations

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#### Noun

divine (plural divines)
* One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
** 1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning:Poets were the first divines.
* A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
** December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth
    The first divines of New England […] were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.
* (often capitalized, with 'the') God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.

##### Synonyms

* (theologian, cleric): clergyman, cleric, man of the cloth, theologian
* (a deity): deity, god, God, Allah (Muslim)

##### Derived terms

* archdivine
* school-divine

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

Replaced Middle English devine, devin from Middle French deviner, from Latin dīvīnō.

#### Verb

divine (third-person singular simple present divines, present participle divining, simple past and past participle divined)
* (transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
** 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:a sagacity which divined the evil designs
** 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:Darest thou […] divine his downfall?
* (transitive) To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
** 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:no secret can be told To any who divined it not before
** 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 43”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish.
** 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, 250c:I suppose that we truly are divining that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are.
* (transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
* To render divine; to deify.
** 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard,Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier. […], London: […] [Thomas Orwin] for William Ponsonby, […], →OCLC:Living on earth like angel new divined.

##### Derived terms

* divinable
* divined
* divinement
* diviner
* divineress
* divining
* divinise, divinize
* divinister

##### Related terms

* divinail
* divinal
* divination
* divinator
* divinatorial
* divinatory
* divinatrice
* divinify
* divinipotent
* divinise, divinize
* divinistre
* divinity
* Divinópolis
* predivine
* a lo divino (cf. a lo divino)
* baculus divinatorius
* Divinópolis de Goiás
* La Divina (Maria Callas)
* lectio divina
* Liposcelis divinatorius
* Salvia divinorum
* São José do Divino
* virgula divina
* voce divinare

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* dive in

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /di.vin/
* Rhymes: -in

### Adjective

divine
* feminine singular of divin

## Italian
### Adjective

divine
* feminine plural of divino

## Latin
### Etymology

From dīvīnus (“of divine origin”).

### Adverb

dīvīnē (comparative dīvīnius, superlative dīvīnissimē)
* prophetically, by divine inspiration
* divinely, admirably

#### Synonyms

* (divinely, admirably): dīvīnitus

#### Related terms

* dīvīnātiō
* dīvīnitās
* dīvīnitus
* dīvīnō
* dīvīnus

### References

* “divine”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “divine”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* divine in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

## Spanish
### Verb

divine
* inflection of divinar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative