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.
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.
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.
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; preëminent.
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