Definition of divine
- a. - Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine
will.
- a. - Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.
- a. - Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious;
pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.
- a. - Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of
the nature of a god or the gods.
- a. - 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.
- a. - Presageful; foreboding; prescient.
- a. - Relating to divinity or theology.
- a. - One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
- a. - A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
- v. t. - To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to
conjecture.
- v. t. - To foretell; to predict; to presage.
- v. t. - To render divine; to deify.
- v. i. - To use or practice divination; to foretell by
divination; to utter prognostications.
- v. i. - To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
- v. i. - To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.