Divine (album)
WordNet

adjective


(1)   Being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods
"Her pies were simply divine"
"The divine Shakespeare"
"An elysian meal"
"An inspired performance"
(2)   Emanating from God
"Divine judgment"
"Divine guidance"
"Everything is black1 or white...satanic or godly"-Saturday Review
(3)   Being or having the nature of a god
"The custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers"-J.G.Frazier
"The divine will"
"The divine capacity for love"
"'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create"-J.G.Saxe
(4)   Resulting from divine providence
"Providential care"
"A providential visitation"
(5)   Appropriate to or befitting a god
"The divine strength of Achilles"
"A man of godlike sagacity"
"Man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers"-R.H.Roveref
(6)   Devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity
"Divine worship"
"Divine liturgy"

noun


(7)   Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
(8)   A clergyman or other person in religious orders

verb


(9)   Search by divining, as if with a rod
"He claimed he could divine underground water"
(10)   Perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers
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Etymology 1


From , from , from .

Adjective



  1. of or pertaining to a god
  2. eternal, holy, or otherwise supernatural.
  3. of superhuman or surpassing excellence
  4. beautiful, heavenly

Synonyms
deific, godlike, godly hallowed, holy, sacred supreme, ultimate beautiful, delightful, exquisite, heavenly, lovely, magnificent, marvellous/marvelous, splendid, wonderful
Antonyms
undivine, ungodly godless, secular humdrum, mediocre, ordinary horrible, horrid, nasty, unpleasant

Noun



  1. a theologian or cleric
  2. (the Divine) a metaphor for a deity, especially the Christian one.

Synonyms
clergyman, cleric, man of the cloth, theologian Allah (Muslim), deity, god, God (Christian)

Verb



  1. to foretell (something), especially by the use of divination
  2. to guess (something)
    • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
      no secret can be told
      To any who divined it not before
    • 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. to search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod

Related terms

  • divinail
  • divinal
  • divination
  • divinator
  • divinatorial
  • divinatory
  • divinatrice
  • divinify
  • divinipotent
  • divinise, divinize
  • divinity
  • predivine


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Adverb



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

Related terms

  • dīvīnātiō
  • dīvīnitās
  • dīvīnitus
  • dīvīnō
  • dīvīnus
 
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