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Di*vine" (?), a. [Compar. Diviner (&unr_;); superl. Divinest.] [F. divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, belonging to a deity; akin to Gr. &unr_;, 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.
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2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. “Divine protection.” Bacon.
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3. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.
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4. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods. “The divine Apollo said.” Shak.
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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.
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A divine sentence is in the lips of the king.
Prov. xvi. 10.
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But not to one in this benighted age
Is that diviner inspiration given.
Gray.
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6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Obs.]
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Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill,
Misgave him.
Milton.
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7. Relating to divinity or theology.
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Church history and other divine learning.
South.
Syn. -- Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; preëminent.
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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.
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2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
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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.
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A sagacity which divined the evil designs.
Bancroft.
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2. To foretell; to predict; to presage.
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Darest thou . . . divine his downfall?
Shak.
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3. To render divine; to deify. [Obs.]
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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.
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The prophets thereof divine for money.
Micah iii. 11.
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2. To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
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Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts.
Shak.
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3. To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.
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