divine
    adj 1: emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance";
           "everything is black or white...satanic or
           godly"-Saturday Review [syn: divine, godly]
    2: resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a
       providential visitation" [syn: providential, divine]
    3: being or having the nature of a god; "the custom of killing
       the divine king upon any serious failure of
       his...powers"-J.G.Frazier; "the divine will"; "the divine
       capacity for love"; "'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to
       create"-J.G.Saxe [syn: divine, godlike]
    4: devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity; "divine
       worship"; "divine liturgy"
    5: appropriate to or befitting a god; "the divine strength of
       Achilles"; "a man of godlike sagacity"; "man must play God
       for he has acquired certain godlike powers"-R.H.Roveref [syn:
       divine, godlike]
    6: being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration
       by the gods; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine
       Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance"
       [syn: divine, elysian, inspired]
    n 1: terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God [syn: Godhead,
         Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty,
         Almighty, Jehovah]
    2: a clergyman or other person in religious orders [syn:
       cleric, churchman, divine, ecclesiastic]
    v 1: perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable
         perceptive powers
    2: search by divining, as if with a rod; "He claimed he could
       divine underground water"

Divine \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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Divine \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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Divine \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.
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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; pre["e]minent.
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Divine \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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