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Relating to, or existing by, the union of divine and human operation in Christ, or the joint agency of the divine and human nature. Murdock.

Divinely sovereign or supreme. [R.] He [Jesus] is the thearchic Intelligence. Milman.

Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.

One who lives under a theocratic form of government; one who in civil affairs conforms to divine law.

A person well versed in theology; a professor of theology or divinity; a divine.

Of or pertaining to theology, or the science of God and of divine things; as, a theological treatise. -- The`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

One who fights against the gods; one who resists God of the divine will.

Opposition to God or the divine will. Bacon.

Divinely inspired; theopneustic. [R.]

Divine inspiration; the supernatural influence of the Divine Spirit in qualifying men to receive and communicate revealed truth.

ned by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the interior relations of the divine nature.

A divine work; a miracle; hence, magic; sorcery.

A parish officer elected annually to preserve good order in the church during divine service, to make complaint of any disorderly conduct, and to enforce the observance of the Sabbath. [Local, U.S.]

is or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone. [Harmony divine] smooths her charming tones. Milton. Tones that with seraph hymns might blend. Keble.

Divine instruction; revelation.

vate above humanity. [R.] Souls purified by sorrow and self-denial, transhumanized to the divine abstraction of pure contemplation. Lowell.

to challenge to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine nature I. Taylor.

ctitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against. In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord. 2 Chron. xxviii. 22.

One of a school of Lutheran divines which held that the body of Christ is present everywhere, and especially in the eucharist, in virtue of his omnipresence. Called also Ubiquitist, Ubiquitary.

Disbelief; especially, disbelief of divine revelation, or in a divine providence or scheme of redemption. Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain. Cowper.