Divine

Definition of Divine

Di`vine´

a.	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. - Prov. xvi. 10. But not to one in this benighted age Is that diviner inspiration given. - Gray.
	6.	Presageful; foreboding; prescient. Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave him. - Milton.
	7.	Relating to divinity or theology. Church history and other divine learning. - South.
n.	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. - J. Woodbridge.
v. t.	1.	To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture. [imp. & p. p. Divined ; p. pr. & vb. n. Divining.] 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. Living on earth like angel new divined. - Spenser.
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.

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