Dictionary Definition
divine adj
1 emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine
guidance"; "everything is black1 or white...satanic or
godlyt"-Saturday Rev. [syn: godly]
2 resulting from divine providence; "providential
care"; "a providential visitation" [syn: providential]
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
[syn: godlike]
4 devoted to or in the service or worship of a
deity; "divine worship"; "divine liturgy"
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 [syn:
godlike]
6 of such surpassing excellence as to suggest
divine inspiration; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine
Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance" [syn:
elysian, inspired]
Noun
1 terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
[syn: Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, God
Almighty, Almighty,
Jehovah]
Verb
1 perceive intuitively or through some
inexplicable perceptive powers
2 search by divining, as if with a rod; "He
claimed he could divine underground water"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /dɪˈvaɪn/, /dI"vaIn/
Etymology 1
From devin, from divinus, from divus.Adjective
- of or pertaining to a god
- eternal, holy, or otherwise supernatural.
- of superhuman or surpassing excellence
- beautiful, heavenly
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
- all-divine
- argument from divine hiddenness
- Book of Divine Worship
- The Church of God in Divine Order
- The Church of Divine Science
- countenance divine
- Divine Adoratrice of Amun
- divine afflatus
- The Divine Comedy
- divine command theory
- divine countenance
- divine fallacy
- divine grace
- divine guidance
- divine healing
- divine inspiration
- divine intervention
- divine judgement, divine judgment
- divine kings
- divine kingship
- divine lady
- divine language
- divine law
- Divine Life Society
- Divine Liturgy
- divinely
- Divine Mercy Sunday
- divine messenger
- Divine Mind
- Divine Mother
- divine move
- divineness
- Divine Office, divine office
- divine polity
- The Divine Praises
- divine proportion
- Divine Providence
- divine ratio
- divine retribution
- divine revelation
- divine right
- divine rule
- divine section
- divine service
- divine simplicity
- divine spark
- divinesse
- Divine Unity
- divine will healing
- Divine Word Missionaries
- Feast of the Divine Mercy
- Gate of Divine Might, Gate of Divine Prowess
- indivine
- Mother Divine
- Revelation of Saint John the Divine
- semi-divine, semidivine
- Society of the Divine Savior
- subdivine
- to err is human, to forgive divine
- undivine
- undivinelike
Translations
of or pertaining to a god
- Finnish: taivaallinen, jumalallinen, taivainen
- French: divin , divine
- German: göttlich
- Hebrew: אלוהי (elohy)
- Italian: divino , divina
eternal, holy or otherwise supernatural
- Finnish: ylimaallinen, pyhä
- German: göttlich
of superhuman or surpassing excellence
- Finnish: yli-inhimillinen, jumalainen
- French: divin , divine
- German: göttlich
beautiful, heavenly
- Finnish: jumalainen, taivaallinen
- French: divin , divine
- German: göttlich
- Hebrew: אלוהי (elohy)
Noun
- a theologian or cleric
- (the Divine) a metaphor for a deity, especially the Christian one.
Synonyms
- clergyman, cleric, man of the cloth, theologian
- i-c a deity Allah (Muslim), deity, god, God (Christian)
Derived terms
Translations
theologian, cleric
- Finnish: teologi, jumaluusoppinut
- Italian: divino , divina
a deity
See: deity
Etymology 2
From divinus.Verb
- to foretell (something), especially by the use of divination
- to guess (something)
- to search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod
Derived terms
rel-top derived termsRelated terms
rel-top related terms- divinail
- divinal
- divination
- divinator
- divinatorial
- divinatory
- divinatrice
- divinify
- divinipotent
- divinise, divinize
- divinity
- predivine
Translations
foretell (something)
- Finnish: ennustaa, nähdä tulevaisuuteen
- French: prédire
- Portuguese: predizer
guess (something)
- Finnish: arvata, aavistaa
- French: deviner
- Italian: indovinare
- Portuguese: adivinhar
Related terms
French
Pronunciation
- /di.vin/
- /di.vin/
Adjective
divine- feminine form of divin
Italian
Adjective
divine- feminine plural form of divino
Latin
Etymology
From divinusAdverb
Synonyms
References
- Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
Extensive Definition
Divine may refer to:
- the concept of divinity, related to holiness and the supernatural
- a person learned in theology in Anglican terminology
- Divine (actor), Harris Glenn Milstead, actor and singer, best known for his drag persona, Divine.
- Divine (band), teen R&B group
- Divine (song), by the band Korn in 1994
- Divine (t.A.T.u. song), released in 2005
- Divine (Sébastien Tellier song), released in 2008
- Divine (rapper), Hip-Hop emcee (soloist)
- Divine (corporation), a bankrupt dot-com.
- Divine (web environment), open source web environment
- Divine Chocolate is a manufacturer of Fairtrade chocolate.
- Divine Records, a record label
- Matthew Divine, (Kill Hannah)
See also
divine in Spanish: Divine (desambiguación)
divine in French: Divine
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Christlike, Christly, DD, Doctor of Divinity, Elysian, Holy Joe, Mariological, abbe, ace, admirable, angelic, answer, anticipate, apprehend, assume, augur, awesome, awful, be afraid, beaming, beatific, beautiful, believe, betoken, blissful, blooming, bottom, bright, brilliant, canonic, canonist, cast a horoscope,
cast a nativity, celestial, chaplain, chthonian, churchman, clear up, clergyman, cleric, clerical, clerk, conceive, conclude, conjecture, consecrated, consider, cool, crack, curate, cure, dandy, daresay, dazzling, debug, decipher, decode, deduce, deem, deific, determine, devastating, discover, disentangle, divinity
student, do, doctrinal, doctrinary, dope, dope out, dowse for water,
dream, dreamy, ecclesiastic, empyreal, empyrean, exalted, excellent, expect, explain, exquisite, extramundane, extraordinary, fancy, fantastic, fathom, feel, figure out, find out, find
the answer, find the solution, forebode, forecast, foreknow, foresee, foretell, foretoken, fortune-tell,
gather, get, get right, gifted, gilt-edged, glamorous, glorious, glowing, godlike, godly, golden, gorgeous, grant, great, groovy, guess, guess right, hallowed, hariolate, have it, heavenly, hint, hit it, holy, holy man, hypothesize, imagine, immense, incarnate, incarnated, indicate, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, infer, intercessional, intercessive, interpret, intuit, inviolable, inviolate, keen, killing, let, let be, made flesh, magic, magnificent, make a
prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make out, man of
God, marvelous,
mean, mediative, mediatory, military chaplain,
minister, neat, nifty, numinous, open the lock,
opine, padre, paradisiac, paradisial, paradisian, paradisic, parson, pastor, perceive, perfect, physicotheological,
plumb, point to, preacher, predict, prefigure, preindicate, prelate, presage, presign, presignal, presignify, presume, presuppose, presurmise, pretypify, prevision, priest, prognosticate, prophesy, propitiative, propitiatory, provisionally
accept, psych, psych out,
puzzle out, radiant,
ravel, ravel out, raving, ravishing, read palms, read
tea leaves, read the future, reckon, rector, redemptive, religious, repute, resolve, resplendent, reverend, riddle, sacred, sacrosanct, saintly, salvational, sanctified, say, scholastic, schoolman, sensational, seraphic, servant of God,
shepherd, shining, signify, sky pilot, smashing, solve, soothsay, sort out, sparkling, speculate, spell, spiritual, splendid, splendiferous, splendorous, splendrous, sterling, stunning, sublime, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent, superfine, superhuman, superior, superlative, supernatural, superphysical, supply
clergy, supply minister, suppose, supreme, surmise, suspect, swell, take, take for, take for granted,
take it, take to be, tell fortunes, tell the future, terrific, the Reverend, the
very Reverend, theologian, theological, theologician, theologist, theologizer, theologue, theorize, think, token, tonsured cleric, transcendent, transmundane, tremendous, typify, understand, undo, unlock, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, unspeakable, untangle, untouchable, untwist, unutterable, unweave, vaticinate, venerable, visualize, wonderful, work, work
out