divine

• enPR: dĭ-vīnʹ, IPA^(key): /dɪˈvaɪn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪn

From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”).

divine (comparative more divine, superlative most divine)

1. Of or pertaining to a god.
2. Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
3. Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
4. Beautiful, heavenly.
5. (obsolete) Foreboding; prescient.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, / Misgave him.

6. Relating to divinity or theology.
   • (Can we date this quote?) South

     church history and other divine learning

• (of or pertaining to a god): deific, godlike, godly
• (eternal, holy): hallowed, holy, sacred
• (of superhuman or surpassing excellence): supreme, ultimate
• (beautiful, heavenly): beautiful, delightful, exquisite, heavenly, lovely, magnificent, marvellous/marvelous, splendid, wonderful

• (of or pertaining to a god): undivine, ungodly
• (eternal, holy): godless, secular, ungodly
• (of superhuman or surpassing excellence): humdrum, mediocre, ordinary
• (beautiful, heavenly): horrible, horrid, nasty, unpleasant

divine (plural divines)

1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Denham

     Poets were the first divines.

2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
   • (Can we date this quote?) J. Woodbridge

     The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.

3. (often capitalized, with 'the') God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.

• (theologian, cleric): clergyman, cleric, man of the cloth, theologian
• (a deity): deity, god, God, Allah (Muslim)

• archdivine
• school-divine

From Middle French deviner, from Latin divino.

divine (third-person singular simple present divines, present participle divining, simple past and past participle divined)

1. (transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Bancroft

     a sagacity which divined the evil designs

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     Darest thou […] divine his downfall?

2. (transitive) To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

     no secret can be told
     To any who divined it not before

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 43

     If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish.

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 250c.

     I suppose that we truly are divining that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are.

3. (transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
4. To render divine; to deify.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Spenser

     Living on earth like angel new divined.

• a lo divino
• baculus divinatorius
• divinistre
• Divinópolis
• Divinópolis de Goiás
• La Divina
• lectio divina
• Liposcelis divinatorius
• Salvia divinorum
• São José do Divino
• virgula divina
• voce divinare

• dive in

• IPA^(key): /di.vin/
• Rhymes: -in

divine

1. feminine singular of divin

divine

1. feminine plural of divino

From dīvīnus (“of divine origin”)

dīvīnē (comparative dīvīnius, superlative dīvīnissimē)

1. prophetically, by divine inspiration
2. divinely, admirably

• (divinely, admirably): dīvīnitus

• dīvīnātiō
• dīvīnitās
• dīvīnitus
• dīvīnō
• dīvīnus

• divine in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• divine in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• divine in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

divine

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of divinar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of divinar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of divinar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of divinar.