Divine - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a clergyman or other person in religious orders (syn: churchman, cleric, ecclesiastic)
verb
- search by divining, as if with a rod
adjective
divine guidance
- being or having the nature of a god (syn: godlike)
the divine will
the divine capacity for love
divine liturgy
the divine Shakespeare
Extra examples
They prayed for divine intervention.
...how about a piece of the most divine apple pie I've ever tasted!...
...the great influence exerted by the Puritan divines in the Massachusetts Bay Colony...
...it was easy to divine his intention of asking his girlfriend to marry him...
To err is human, to forgive divine.
He could not divine the cause of this extraordinary change.
Somehow, the children had divined that he was lying.
He claimed he could divine underground water
...a conjuration for divine guidance during a time of national crisis...
...the notion that their monarch ruled by divine right had been inseminated in the people for countless generations...
...a fervent orison asking for divine guidance in bringing about a peaceful solution to the grave international crisis...
...a dying woman asking for divine forgiveness for a lifetime of transgressions...
...the white marble sculpture of the saint in the throes of divine ecstasy is strikingly offset by a gilt aureole...
Achilles' behaviour aroused divine nemesis.
Religion consists in submission and resignation to the divine will.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: divine
he/she/it: divines
present participle: divining
past tense: divined
past participle: divined
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