Divine
Divine , a.
[Compar. Diviner ({not transcribed}); superl. Divinest.]
1.
Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.
2.
Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.
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.
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.
But not to one in this benighted ageb Is that diviner inspiration given.
6.
Presageful; foreboding; prescient.
Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill,b Misgave him.
7.
Relating to divinity or theology.
Church history and other divine learning.
Divine , n.
[L. divinus a soothsayer, LL., a theologian. See Divine, a.]
1.
One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
2.
A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.
Divine , v. t.
[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.
2.
To foretell; to predict; to presage.
Darest thou... divine his downfall?
3.
To render divine; to deify.
Living on earth like angel new divined.
Divine , v. i.
1.
To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
The prophets thereof divine for money.
2.
To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts.
3.
To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.