divine
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: dĭ-vīnʹ, IPA(key): /dɪˈvaɪn/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪn
Etymology 1
From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”).
Adjective
divine (comparative more divine, superlative most divine)
- Of or pertaining to a god.
- Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
- Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
- Beautiful, heavenly.
- (obsolete) Foreboding; prescient.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, / Misgave him.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- Relating to divinity or theology.
- (Can we date this quote?) South
- church history and other divine learning
- (Can we date this quote?) South
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from divine
- all-divine
- argument from divine hiddenness
- Book of Divine Worship
- The Church of God in Divine Order
- The Church of Divine Science
- countenance divine
- Divine Adoratrice of Amun
- divine afflatus
- The Divine Comedy
- 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
- Divine Liturgy
- divinely
- Divine Mercy Sunday
- divine messenger
- Divine Mind
- Divine Mother
- divine move
- Divine Mystery
- divineness
- Divine Office, divine office
- divine polity
- The Divine Praises
- 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
- Feast of the Divine Mercy
- Gate of Divine Might, Gate of Divine Prowess
- indivine
- Mother Divine
- Revelation of Saint John the Divine
- semi-divine, semidivine
- Society of the Divine Savior
- subdivine
- to err is human, to forgive divine
- undivine
- undivinelike
Translations
of or pertaining to a god
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eternal, holy or otherwise godlike
of superhuman or surpassing excellence
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beautiful, heavenly
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Noun
divine (plural divines)
- One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
- (Can we date this quote?) Denham
- Poets were the first divines.
- (Can we date this quote?) Denham
- A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
- (Can we date this quote?) J. Woodbridge
- The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.
- (Can we date this quote?) J. Woodbridge
- (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
theologian, cleric
a deity — see deity
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Etymology 2
From Middle French deviner, from Latin divino.
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.
- (Can we date this quote?) Bancroft
- a sagacity which divined the evil designs
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- Darest thou […] divine his downfall?
- (Can we date this quote?) Bancroft
- (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
- no secret can be told
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 43
- 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, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 250c.
- I suppose that we truly are divining that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
- (transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
- To render divine; to deify.
- (Can we date this quote?) Spenser
- Living on earth like angel new divined.
- (Can we date this quote?) Spenser
Derived terms
derived terms
- divinable
- divined
- divinement
- diviner
- divineress
- divining
- divinise, divinize
- divinister
Related terms
related terms
- divinail
- divinal
- divination
- divinator
- divinatorial
- divinatory
- divinatrice
- divinify
- divinipotent
- divinise, divinize
- divinity
- predivine
Translations
foretell (something)
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guess (something)
Related terms
- a lo divino
- baculus divinatorius
- divinistre
- Divinópolis
- Divinópolis de Goiás
- La Divina
- lectio divina
- Liposcelis divinatorius
- Salvia divinorum
- São José do Divino
- virgula divina
- voce divinare
Italian
Latin
Etymology
From dīvīnus (“of divine origin”)
Adverb
dīvīnē (comparative dīvīnius, superlative dīvīnissimē)
Synonyms
- (divinely, admirably): dīvīnitus
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
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