1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural
means.
The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain.
Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things. Locke.
Divineress
(Di*vin"er*ess), n. A woman who divines. Dryden.
Diving
(Div"ing) a. That dives or is used or diving.
Diving beetle (Zoöl.),
any beetle of the family Dytiscidæ, which habitually lives under water; — called
also water tiger. — Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may
descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh
air pumped in through a tube from above. — Diving dress. See Submarine armor, under Submarine.
— Diving stone, a kind of jasper.
Divinify
(Di*vin"i*fy) v. t. [L. divinus divine + -fy.] To render divine; to deify. [Obs.] "Blessed and divinified
soul." Parth. Sacra
Divining
(Di*vin"ing) a. That divines; for divining.
Divining rod,
a rod, commonly of witch hazel, with forked branches, used by those who pretend to
discover water or metals under ground.
Diviningly
(Di*vin"ing*ly), adv. In a divining manner.
Divinistre
(Div`i*nis"tre) n. A diviner. [Obs.] " I am no divinistre." Chaucer.
Divinity
(Di*vin"i*ty) n.; pl. Divinities [F. divinité, L. divinitas. See Divine, a.]
1. The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead.
When he attributes divinity to other things than God, it is only a divinity by way of participation.
Bp.
Stillingfleet. 2. The Deity; the Supreme Being; God.
This the divinity that within us.
Addison. 3. A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.
Beastly divinities, and droves of gods.
Prior. 4. A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man.
God . . . employing these subservient divinities.
Cheyne. 5. Something divine or superhuman; supernatural power or virtue; something which inspires awe.
They say there is divinity in odd numbers.
Shak.
There's such divinity doth hedge a king.
Shak.