divine

Speech parts

1. divine - Noun

2. divine - Adjective

3. divine - Verb

4. divine - Adjective Satellite

5. Divine - Proper noun

Meaning

Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.

Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.

Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.

Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods.

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.

Presageful; foreboding; prescient.

To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.

To foretell; to predict; to presage.

To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.

To have or feel a presage or foreboding.

To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.

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Examples

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts. John Chrysostom

Christ, invisible to the bodily eye, manifests Himself on earth clearly through His Church ... The Church is the Body of Christ both because its parts are united to Christ through His divine mysteries and because through her Christ works in the world. John of Shanghai and San Francisco

To err is human; to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope

To err is human, to forgive divine. English Proverb

He is as good a divine as Judas was an apostle. Dutch Proverb

Erring is human, forgiving is divine. Portuguese Proverb

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