Divine
Pronunciation
- enPR: dÄ-vÄ«nʹ, IPA: /dɪˈvaɪn/
Origin 1
From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (""), from divus ("god").
Full definition of divine
Adjective
divine
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Noun
divine
(plural divines)- One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
- DenhamPoets were the first divines.
- A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
- J. WoodbridgeThe first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.
- (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
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Origin 2
From Middle French deviner, from Latin divino.
Verb
- (transitive) to foretell (something), especially by the use of divination
- Bancrofta sagacity which divined the evil designs
- ShakespeareDarest thou ... divine his downfall?
- (transitive) to guess (something)
- 1874, James Thomson (B. V.), no secret can be told
To any who divined it not before - 1919, William Somerset Maugham, ,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, . Translation by Lesley Brown. .I suppose that we truly are divining that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are.
- (transitive) to search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod
- To render divine; to deify.
- SpenserLiving on earth like angel new divined.