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.
2.
Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.
"
Divine protection."
Bacon.
3.
Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.
4.
Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods.
"The
divine Apollo said."
Shak.
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.
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.
Presageful; foreboding; prescient.
[Obs.]
Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill,
Misgave him.
Milton.
7.
Relating to divinity or theology.
Church history and other divine learning.
South.
Syn. -- Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; preeminent.
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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.
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.
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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.
A sagacity which divined the evil designs.
Bancroft.
2.
To foretell; to predict; to presage.
Darest thou . . . divine his downfall?
Shak.
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.
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Di*vine", v. i.
1.
To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
The prophets thereof divine for money.
Micah iii. 11.
2.
To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts.
Shak.
3.
To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.
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