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Entry 15 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Divine

/dĭ-vīnʹ/ · Di·vine · IPA /dɪˈvaɪn/
01 a. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.
  1. 1.
    Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.
  2. 2.
    Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.
  3. 3.
    Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.
  4. 4.
    Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods.
  5. 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.
    “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. 6.
    Presageful; foreboding; prescient.[Obs.]
    “Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave him.” — Milton.
  7. 7.
    Relating to divinity or theology.
    “Church history and other divine learning.” — South.
Syn. Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; preëminent.
02 n. One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
  1. 1.
    One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
  2. 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.
03 v. t. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.
imp. & p. p. Divined; p. pr. & vb. n. Divining
  1. 1.
    To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.
    “A sagacity which divined the evil designs.” — Bancroft.
  2. 2.
    To foretell; to predict; to presage.
    “Darest thou . . . divine his downfall?” — Shak.
  3. 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.
04 v. i. To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
  1. 1.
    To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
    “The prophets thereof divine for money.” — Micah iii. 11.
  2. 2.
    To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
    “Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts.” — Shak.
  3. 3.
    To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.