divine
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”). Displaced native Old English godcund.
Adjective edit
divine (comparative more divine, superlative most divine)
- Of or pertaining to a god.
- Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
- Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
- Beautiful, heavenly.
- Synonyms: beautiful, delightful, exquisite, heavenly, lovely, magnificent, marvellous/marvelous, splendid, wonderful
- Antonyms: horrible, horrid, nasty, unpleasant
- (obsolete) Foreboding; prescient.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, / Misgave him.
- (obsolete, of souls) immortal; elect or saved after death
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, column 1:
- Now Thomas Mowbray do I turne to thee,
And marke my greeting well: for what I ſpeake,
My body ſhall make good vpon this earth,
Or my diuine ſoule anſwer it in heauen.
- 1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age, Part 2:
- (Of that at leaſure) but the bloody ſtage
On which to act, Generall this night is thine,
Thou lyeſt downe mortall, who muſt riſe diuine.
- 1703, Charles Povey, Meditations of a Divine Soul: Or, the Chriſtian’s Guide, Amidſt the Various Opinions of a vain World, page 594:
- Then rouſe up, my Divine Soul, who art ready for Eternal Glory, and bid the World a final A-dieu, with all its fond Deluſions and gilded Baits of Folly: For the time is now at hand, when thou my moſt precious Jewel, muſt launch out into the Deep of Everlaſting Bliſs
- Relating to divinity or theology.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
- church history and other divine learning
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Derived terms edit
Terms derived from divine
- all-divine
- argument from divine hiddenness
- Book of Divine Worship
- The Church of Divine Science
- countenance divine
- Divine Adoratrice of Amun
- divine afflatus
- The Divine Comedy
- divine command theory
- divine contentment
- divine countenance
- divine fallacy
- divine grace
- divine guidance
- divine healing
- divine inspiration
- divine intervention
- divine judgement, divine judgment
- divine kings
- divine kingship
- divine lady
- divine language
- divine law
- Divine Life Society
- Divine Liturgy
- divinely
- Divine Mercy Sunday
- divine messenger
- Divine Mind
- Divine Mother
- divine move
- Divine Mystery
- divineness
- Divine Office, divine office
- divine polity
- The Divine Praises
- divine proportion
- Divine Providence
- divine ratio
- divine retribution
- divine revelation
- divine right
- divine rule
- divine section
- divine service
- divine simplicity
- divine spark
- divinesse
- Divine Unity
- divine will healing
- Divine Word Missionaries
- Feast of the Divine Mercy
- Gate of Divine Might, Gate of Divine Prowess
- indivine
- Mother Divine
- Revelation of Saint John the Divine
- semi-divine, semidivine
- Society of the Divine Savior
- subdivine
- to err is human, to forgive divine
- undivine
- undivinelike
Translations edit
of or pertaining to a god
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eternal, holy or otherwise godlike
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of superhuman or surpassing excellence
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beautiful, heavenly
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Noun edit
divine (plural divines)
- One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
- 1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning:
- Poets were the first divines.
- A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
- December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth
- The first divines of New England […] were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.
- December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth
- (often capitalized, with 'the') God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.
Synonyms edit
- (theologian, cleric): clergyman, cleric, man of the cloth, theologian
- (a deity): deity, god, God, Allah (Muslim)
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
theologian, cleric
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a deity — see deity
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Etymology 2 edit
Replaced Middle English devine, devin from Middle French deviner, from Latin dīvīnō.
Verb edit
divine (third-person singular simple present divines, present participle divining, simple past and past participle divined)
- (transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
- 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:
- a sagacity which divined the evil designs
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
- Darest thou […] divine his downfall?
- (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[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 43”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
- 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.
- (transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
- To render divine; to deify.
- 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard,Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier. […], London: […] [Thomas Orwin] for William Ponsonby, […], →OCLC:
- Living on earth like angel new divined.
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Expressions
Translations edit
foretell (something)
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guess (something)
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search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod
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divine
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Adjective edit
divine
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From dīvīnus (“of divine origin”).
Adverb edit
dīvīnē (comparative dīvīnius, superlative dīvīnissimē)
Synonyms edit
- (divinely, admirably): dīvīnitus
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References edit
- “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)
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Verb edit
divine
- inflection of divinar: