Syn. — Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; preëminent.
Divine
(Di*vine"), n. [L. divinus a soothsayer, LL., a theologian. See Divine, a.]
1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. "Poets were the first divines." Denham.
2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.
J. Woodbridge. Divine
(Di*vine"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divined ; p. pr. & vb. n. Divining.] [L. divinare: cf. F. deviner.
See Divination.]
1. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.
A sagacity which divined the evil designs.
Bancroft. 2. To foretell; to predict; to presage.
Darest thou . . . divine his downfall?
Shak. 3. To render divine; to deify. [Obs.]
Living on earth like angel new divined.
Spenser. Syn. — To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate; forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise.
Divine
(Di*vine"), v. i.
1. To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
The prophets thereof divine for money.
Micah iii. 11. 2. To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts.
Shak. 3. To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.
Divinely
(Di*vine"ly), adv.
1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree.
Most divinely fair.
Tennyson. 2. By the agency or influence of God.
Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness.
Macaulay. Divinement
(Di*vine"ment) n. Divination. [Obs.]
Divineness
(Di*vine"ness), n. The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence. Shak.
Diviner
(Di*vin"er) n.
