divine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭ-vīnʹ
ipa: /dɪˈvaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: more divine
form: most divine
form: Divine
Etymology: From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”). Displaced native Old English godcund.
Senses: examples: text: a divine being
text: divine existence
synonyms: deific
godlike
godly
antonyms: undivine
ungodly
glosses: Of or pertaining to a god.
examples: text: divine power
synonyms: hallowed
holy
sacred
antonyms: godless
secular
ungodly
glosses: Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
examples: text: divine skill
synonyms: supreme
ultimate
antonyms: humdrum
mediocre
ordinary
glosses: Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
synonyms: beautiful
delightful
exquisite
heavenly
lovely
magnificent
marvellous/marvelous
splendid
wonderful
antonyms: horrible
horrid
nasty
unpleasant
glosses: Beautiful, heavenly.
examples: text: Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, / Misgave him.
ref: 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:
glosses: Foreboding; prescient.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: (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.
ref: 1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age, Part 2:
text: 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
ref: 1703, Charles Povey, Meditations of a Divine Soul: Or, the Chriſtian’s Guide, Amidſt the Various Opinions of a vain World, page 594:
glosses: immortal; elect or saved after death
raw_tags: of souls
examples: text: church history and other divine learning
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: Relating to divinity or theology.
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