Sekirov Dictionary

divine

/dɪˈvaɪn/

adjective 7
verb 4
noun 3
forms 9

adjective7

belonging to a god or sent by one
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Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
- Divine decadence darling! — 1972
Beautiful, heavenly.
Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
Relating to divinity or theology.
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(no longer used) immortal; elect or saved after death
- Now Thomas Mowbray do I turne to thee, And marke my greeting well: for what I speake, My body shall make good vpon this earth, Or my diuine soule answer it in heauen. — 1595
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(no longer used) Foreboding; prescient.
- Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, / Misgave him. — 1667

verb4

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To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
- no secret can be told To any who divined it not before — 1874
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To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
- a sagacity which divined the evil designs — 1834
To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
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To render divine; to deify.
- Living on earth like angel new divined. — 1591

noun3

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One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
- Poets were the first divines. — 1668
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A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
- December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth The first divines of New England […] were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.
God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.

forms

divined · divining · divines · divineth · more Divine · more divine · divinest · most Divine · most divine

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