DIVINE

Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. "The immensity of the divine nature." Paley.

Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. "Divine protection." Bacon.

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. "The divine Apollo said." Shak.

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. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. Prov. xvi. 10. But not to one in this benighted age Is that diviner inspiration given. Gray.

Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Obs.] Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave him. Milton.

Relating to divinity or theology. Church history and other divine learning. South.

One skilled in divinity; a theologian. "Poets were the first divines." Denham.

A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. J. Woodbridge.

To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture. A sagacity which divined the evil designs. Bancroft.

To foretell; to predict; to presage. Darest thou . . . divine his downfall Shak.

To render divine; to deify. [Obs.] Living on earth like angel new divined. Spenser.

To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications. The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah iii. 11.

To have or feel a presage or foreboding. Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts. Shak.

To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.