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   Divine (?), a. [Compar. Diviner (); superl. Divinest.] [F. divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, belonging to a deity; akin to Gr. , and L. deus, God. See Deity.]
   1. Of or belonging to God; as, “divine perfections; the divine will.” “The immensity of the divine nature.”  Paley.
   
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   2. Proceeding from God; as, “divine judgments”. “Divine protection.”  Bacon.
   
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   3. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, “divine service; divine songs; divine worship.”
   
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   4. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods. “The divine Apollo said.”  Shak.
   
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   5. 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. “The divine Desdemona.”  Shak.
   
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   A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. Prov. xvi. 10.
   
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   But not to one in this benighted age
   
   Is that diviner inspiration given. Gray.
   
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   6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Obs.]
   
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   Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill,
   
   Misgave him. Milton.
   
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   7. Relating to divinity or theology.
   
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   Church history and other divine learning. South.
   
   Syn. -- Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; preëminent.
   
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   Divine, n. [L. divinus a soothsayer, LL., a theologian. See Divine, a.]
   1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. “Poets were the first divines.”  Denham.
   
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   2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
   
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   The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. J. Woodbridge.
   
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   Divine, 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.
   
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   A sagacity which divined the evil designs. Bancroft.
   
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   2. To foretell; to predict; to presage.
   
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   Darest thou . . . divine his downfall? Shak.
   
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   3. To render divine; to deify. [Obs.]
   
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   Living on earth like angel new divined. Spenser.
   
   Syn. -- To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate; forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise.
   
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   Divine, v. i.
   1. To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
   
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   The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah iii. 11.
   
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   2. To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
   
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   Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts. Shak.
   
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   3. To conjecture or guess; as, “to divine rightly”.
   
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