'Divine' definitions:
Definition of 'divine'
From: WordNet
adjective
Emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black or white...satanic or godly"-Saturday Review [syn: divine, godly]
adjective
Resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a providential visitation" [syn: providential, divine]
adjective
Being or having the nature of a god; "the custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers"-J.G.Frazier; "the divine will"; "the divine capacity for love"; "'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create"-J.G.Saxe [syn: divine, godlike]
adjective
Devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity; "divine worship"; "divine liturgy"
adjective
Appropriate to or befitting a god; "the divine strength of Achilles"; "a man of godlike sagacity"; "man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers"-R.H.Roveref [syn: divine, godlike]
adjective
Being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance" [syn: divine, elysian, inspired]
noun
Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God [syn: Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah]
noun
verb
Perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers
verb
Search by divining, as if with a rod; "He claimed he could divine underground water"
Definition of 'Divine'
From: GCIDE
- Divine \Di*vine"\, a. [Compar. Diviner; superl. Divinest.] [F. divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, belonging to a deity; akin to Gr. ?, and L. deus, God. See Deity.]
- 1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. "The immensity of the divine nature." --Paley. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. "Divine protection." --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods. "The divine Apollo said." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. --Sir J. Davies. "The divine Desdemona." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. --Prov. xvi. 10. [1913 Webster]
- But not to one in this benighted age Is that diviner inspiration given. --Gray. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave him. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Relating to divinity or theology. [1913 Webster]
- Church history and other divine learning. --South.
- Syn: Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; pre["e]minent. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Divine'
From: GCIDE
- Divine \Di*vine"\, v. i.
- 1. To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications. [1913 Webster]
- The prophets thereof divine for money. --Micah iii. 11. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To have or feel a presage or foreboding. [1913 Webster]
- Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Divine'
From: GCIDE
- Divine \Di*vine"\, n. [L. divinus a soothsayer, LL., a theologian. See Divine, a.]
- 1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. "Poets were the first divines." --Denham. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. [1913 Webster]
- The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. --J. Woodbridge. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Divine'
From: GCIDE
- Divine \Di*vine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divined; p. pr. & vb. n. Divining.] [L. divinare: cf. F. deviner. See Divination.]
- 1. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture. [1913 Webster]
- A sagacity which divined the evil designs. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To foretell; to predict; to presage. [1913 Webster]
- Darest thou . . . divine his downfall? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To render divine; to deify. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Living on earth like angel new divined. --Spenser.
- Syn: To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate; forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'divine'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abbe,
- ace,
- admirable,
- angelic,
- answer,
- anticipate,
- apprehend,
- assume,
- augur,
- awesome,
- awful,
- be afraid,
- beaming,
- beatific,
- beautiful,
- believe,
- betoken,
- blissful,
- blooming,
- bottom,
- bright,
- brilliant,
- canonic,
- canonist,
- cast a horoscope,
- cast a nativity,
- celestial,
- chaplain,
- Christlike,
- Christly,
- chthonian,
- churchman,
- clear up,
- clergyman,
- cleric,
- clerical,
- clerk,
- conceive,
- conclude,
- conjecture,
- consecrated,
- consider,
- cool,
- crack,
- curate,
- cure,
- dandy,
- daresay,
- dazzling,
- DD,
- debug,
- decipher,
- decode,
- deduce,
- deem,
- deific,
- determine,
- devastating,
- discover,
- disentangle,
- divinity student,
- do,
- Doctor of Divinity,
- doctrinal,
- doctrinary,
- dope,
- dope out,
- dowse for water,
- dream,
- dreamy,
- ecclesiastic,
- Elysian,
- empyreal,
- empyrean,
- exalted,
- excellent,
- expect,
- explain,
- exquisite,
- extramundane,
- extraordinary,
- fancy,
- fantastic,
- fathom,
- feel,
- figure out,
- find out,
- find the answer,
- find the solution,
- forebode,
- forecast,
- foreknow,
- foresee,
- foretell,
- foretoken,
- fortune-tell,
- gather,
- get,
- get right,
- gifted,
- gilt-edged,
- glamorous,
- glorious,
- glowing,
- godlike,
- godly,
- golden,
- gorgeous,
- grant,
- great,
- groovy,
- guess,
- guess right,
- hallowed,
- hariolate,
- have it,
- heavenly,
- hint,
- hit it,
- holy,
- Holy Joe,
- holy man,
- hypothesize,
- imagine,
- immense,
- incarnate,
- incarnated,
- indicate,
- ineffable,
- inenarrable,
- inexpressible,
- infer,
- intercessional,
- intercessive,
- interpret,
- intuit,
- inviolable,
- inviolate,
- keen,
- killing,
- let,
- let be,
- made flesh,
- magic,
- magnificent,
- make a prediction,
- make a prognosis,
- make a prophecy,
- make out,
- man of God,
- Mariological,
- marvelous,
- mean,
- mediative,
- mediatory,
- military chaplain,
- minister,
- neat,
- nifty,
- numinous,
- open the lock,
- opine,
- padre,
- paradisiac,
- paradisial,
- paradisian,
- paradisic,
- parson,
- pastor,
- perceive,
- perfect,
- physicotheological,
- plumb,
- point to,
- preacher,
- predict,
- prefigure,
- preindicate,
- prelate,
- presage,
- presign,
- presignal,
- presignify,
- presume,
- presuppose,
- presurmise,
- pretypify,
- prevision,
- priest,
- prognosticate,
- prophesy,
- propitiative,
- propitiatory,
- provisionally accept,
- psych,
- psych out,
- puzzle out,
- radiant,
- ravel,
- ravel out,
- raving,
- ravishing,
- read palms,
- read tea leaves,
- read the future,
- reckon,
- rector,
- redemptive,
- religious,
- repute,
- resolve,
- resplendent,
- reverend,
- riddle,
- sacred,
- sacrosanct,
- saintly,
- salvational,
- sanctified,
- say,
- scholastic,
- schoolman,
- sensational,
- seraphic,
- servant of God,
- shepherd,
- shining,
- signify,
- sky pilot,
- smashing,
- solve,
- soothsay,
- sort out,
- sparkling,
- speculate,
- spell,
- spiritual,
- splendid,
- splendiferous,
- splendorous,
- splendrous,
- sterling,
- stunning,
- sublime,
- super,
- superb,
- supereminent,
- superexcellent,
- superfine,
- superhuman,
- superior,
- superlative,
- supernatural,
- superphysical,
- supply clergy,
- supply minister,
- suppose,
- supreme,
- surmise,
- suspect,
- swell,
- take,
- take for,
- take for granted,
- take it,
- take to be,
- tell fortunes,
- tell the future,
- terrific,
- the Reverend,
- the very Reverend,
- theologian,
- theological,
- theologician,
- theologist,
- theologizer,
- theologue,
- theorize,
- think,
- token,
- tonsured cleric,
- transcendent,
- transmundane,
- tremendous,
- typify,
- understand,
- undo,
- unlock,
- unravel,
- unriddle,
- unscramble,
- unspeakable,
- untangle,
- untouchable,
- untwist,
- unutterable,
- unweave,
- vaticinate,
- venerable,
- visualize,
- wonderful,
- work,
- work out
Words containing 'Divine'
- Divination,
- Divinator,
- Divined,
- Divinely,
- Divinement,
- Divineness,
- Diviner,
- Divining,
- Diviningly,
- Divinities,
- Divinity,
- Divinization,
- Divinize,
- Case divinity,
- Divine right,
- Divining rod,
- Divinity calf,
- bachelor of divinity,
- divine comedy,
- divine guidance,
- divine law,
- divine messenger,
- divine office,
- divine revelation,
- divine service,
- divine unity,
- divinity fudge,
- doctor of divinity,
- john the divine,
- master of divinity,
- star divination,
- Divine right of kings,
- revelation of saint john the divine