Divine

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Having the nature of or being a deity.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, emanating from, or being the expression of a deity.
  • adjective. Being in the service or worship of a deity; sacred.
  • adjective. Superhuman; godlike.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Supremely good or beautiful; magnificent.
  • adjective. Extremely pleasant; delightful.
  • noun. A cleric.
  • noun. A theologian.
  • intransitive verb. To foretell, especially by divination. synonym: foretell.
  • intransitive verb. To guess or know by inspiration or intuition.
  • intransitive verb. To locate (underground water or minerals) with a divining rod; douse.
  • intransitive verb. To practice divination.
  • intransitive verb. To guess.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To learn or make out by or as if by divination; foretell; presage.
  • To make out by observation or otherwise; conjecture; guess.
  • To render divine; deify; consecrate; sanctify.
  • Synonyms To prognosticate, predict, prophesy.
  • To see through, penetrate.
  • To use or practise divination.
  • To afford or impart presages of the future; utter presages or prognostications.
  • To have presages or forebodings.
  • To make a guess or conjecture: as, you have divined rightly.
  • Pertaining to, of the nature of, or proceeding from God, or a god or heathen deity: as, divine perfections; divine judgments; the divine honors paid to the Roman emperors; a being half human, half divine; divine oracles.
  • Addressed or appropriated to God; religious; sacred: as, divine worship; divine service, songs, or ascriptions.
  • Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; extraordinary; apparently above what is human.
  • Divining; presageful; foreboding; prescient.
  • Relating to divinity or theology.
  • Of the clergy, a claim of divine authority for particular persons and particular forms of ecclesiastical government. An instance in the Roman Catholic Church is the still unsettled claim of the bishops to power in their several dioceses, as opposed to the papal theory that they rule mediately through the pope.
  • Synonyms Holy, sacred.
  • Supernatural, superhuman.
  • noun. A man skilled in divinity; a theologian: as, a great divine; “the Revelation of St. John the Divine.
  • noun. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
  • noun. A diviner; a prophet.
  • noun. Divinity.
  • noun. Synonyms Clergyman, Priest, etc. See minister, n.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
  • noun. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
  • intransitive verb. To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
  • intransitive verb. To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
  • intransitive verb. To conjecture or guess.
  • adjective. Of or belonging to God
  • adjective. Proceeding from God.
  • adjective. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy
  • adjective. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods.
  • adjective. Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison.
  • adjective. Presageful; foreboding; prescient.
  • adjective. Relating to divinity or theology.
  • transitive verb. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.
  • Word Usage
    "According to this interpretation, the phrase “the nature of the divine and the good” refers simply to a characteristic that is attributed to Pyrrho, and labeled by poetic hyperbole as ˜divine™, in another fragment of Timon, namely his extraordinary tranquillity; the couplet as a whole, then, is saying that tranquillity is the source of an even-tempered life."
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