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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.]
   Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. “The immensity of the divine nature.”  
   Paley.
   
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   Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. “Divine protection.”  
   Bacon.
   
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   Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.
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   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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   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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   Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Obs.]
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   Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill,
   Misgave him.
   Milton.
   
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   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.]
   One skilled in divinity; a theologian. “Poets were the first divines.”  
   Denham.
   
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   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.]
   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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   To foretell; to predict; to presage.
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   Darest thou . . . divine his downfall?
   Shak.
   
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   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.
   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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   To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
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   Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts.
   Shak.
   
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   To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.
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