divine
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”). Displaced native Old English godcund.
Inflected forms:
form: more divine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most divine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Divine
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: divines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: divines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: divining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: divined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: divined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a god.
pos: adj
examples: a divine being
divine existence
gloss: Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
pos: adj
examples: divine power
gloss: Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
pos: adj
examples: divine skill
Divine decadence darling!
gloss: Beautiful, heavenly.
pos: adj
gloss: Foreboding; prescient.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, / Misgave him.
gloss: immortal; elect or saved after death
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
(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.
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
gloss: Relating to divinity or theology.
pos: adj
examples: church history and other divine learning
gloss: One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
pos: noun
examples: Poets were the first divines.
gloss: A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
often
gloss: To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: a sagacity which divined the evil designs
Darest thou […] divine his downfall?
gloss: To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: no secret can be told
To any who divined it not before
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.
I suppose that we truly are divining that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are.
gloss: To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To render divine; to deify.
pos: verb
examples: Living on earth like angel new divined.
Synonyms: deific
divine
godly
godlike
Antonyms: nondivine
undivine
ungodly
ungodlike
Related words: celestial
heavenly
divinail
divinal
divination
divinator
divinatorial
divinatory
divinatrice
divinify
divinipotent
divinise
divinize
divinistre
divinity
Divinópolis
predivine
Derived words: 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
archdivine
school-divine
divinable
divined
divinement
diviner
divineress
divining
divinise
divinize
divinister
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