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di⋅vine

  [di-vahyn] adjective, -vin⋅er, -vin⋅est, noun, verb, -vined, -vin⋅ing.
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to a god, esp. the Supreme Being.
2. addressed, appropriated, or devoted to God or a god; religious; sacred: divine worship.
3. proceeding from God or a god: divine laws.
4. godlike; characteristic of or befitting a deity: divine magnanimity.
5. heavenly; celestial: the divine kingdom.
6. Informal. extremely good; unusually lovely: He has the most divine tenor voice.
7. being a god; being God: a divine person.
8. of superhuman or surpassing excellence: Beauty is divine.
9. Obsolete. of or pertaining to divinity or theology.
–noun
10. a theologian; scholar in religion.
11. a priest or member of the clergy.
12. the Divine,
a. God.
b. (sometimes lowercase) the spiritual aspect of humans; the group of attributes and qualities of humankind regarded as godly or godlike.
–verb (used with object)
13. to discover or declare (something obscure or in the future) by divination; prophesy.
14. to discover (water, metal, etc.) by means of a divining rod.
15. to perceive by intuition or insight; conjecture.
16. Archaic. to portend.
–verb (used without object)
17. to use or practice divination; prophesy.
18. to have perception by intuition or insight; conjecture.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME < L dīvīnus, equiv. to dīv(us) god + -īnus -ine 1 ; r. ME devin(e) < OF devin < L, as above

Related forms:
di⋅vin⋅a⋅ble, adjective
di⋅vine⋅ly, adverb
di⋅vine⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
13, 17. foretell, predict, foresee, forecast. 15, 18. discern, understand.

Antonyms:
5. worldly, mundane.
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Word Origin & History

divine  (v.)
"to conjure, to guess," originally "to make out by supernatural insight," early 14c., from L. divinus (see divine (adj.)), which also meant "soothsayer." Hence, divination (c.1374), from O.Fr., from L. divinationem (nom. divinatio) "the power of foreseeing, prediction," from divinatus, pp. of divinare, lit. "to be inspired by a god." Divining rod (or wand) attested from 1656.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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