Divine

Word DIVINE
Character 6
Hyphenation di vine
Pronunciations /dɪˈvaɪn/

Definitions and meanings of "Divine"

What do we mean by divine?

Having the nature of or being a deity. adjective

Of, relating to, emanating from, or being the expression of a deity. adjective

Being in the service or worship of a deity; sacred. adjective

Superhuman; godlike. adjective

Supremely good or beautiful; magnificent. adjective

Extremely pleasant; delightful. adjective

A cleric. noun

A theologian. noun

To foretell, especially by divination. synonym: foretell. intransitive verb

To guess or know by inspiration or intuition. intransitive verb

To locate (underground water or minerals) with a divining rod; douse. intransitive verb

To practice divination. intransitive verb

To guess. intransitive verb

To learn or make out by or as if by divination; foretell; presage.

To make out by observation or otherwise; conjecture; guess.

To render divine; deify; consecrate; sanctify.

Synonyms To prognosticate, predict, prophesy.

To see through, penetrate.

One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.

(often capitalized, with 'the') God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.

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The word "divine" in example sentences

According to this interpretation, the phrase “the nature of the divine and the good” refers simply to a characteristic that is attributed to Pyrrho, and labeled by poetic hyperbole as ˜divine™, in another fragment of Timon, namely his extraordinary tranquillity; the couplet as a whole, then, is saying that tranquillity is the source of an even-tempered life. ❋ Unknown (2009)

_ It should appear that Moses believed with the Egyptians the divine emanation of souls: according to him, _ "God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul:" _ nevertheless, the Catholic, at this day, rejects this system of _divine emanation, _ seeing that it supposes the ❋ Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (1756)

Actions committed by a divine principle are _divine actions_; whereas the actions of the creature, however good they may appear, are ❋ Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon (1682)

Empedocles, and others, to prove there must be something self-existent and eternal, or in other words, "that nothing which once was not can ever of itself come into being," he uses it to disprove a divine creation, and even presents the maxim in an altered form -- viz., "nothing is ever _divinely_ generated from nothing;" [787] and he thence concludes that the world was by no means made for us by _divine_ power. [ ❋ Unknown (1852)

When the term divine Principle is used to signify Deity it may seem distant or cold, until better apprehended. ❋ Mary Baker Eddy (1865)

Surely the physical definition implicit in ascribing masculinity to the divine is a contradiction of omnipotence in and of itself. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

To ascribe features of masculinity to the divine is as blasphemous as to ascribe features of bestiality -- as in the theriomorphic deities of pagan religions so abhorred by monotheism -- the very blasphemy that iconoclasm reacts against. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

In 2003, Wanda quit on her own after what she calls a divine intervention that hit her on the way to buy drugs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Your creative centre is the source of what I call divine guidance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And the rest is what we call divine creative coincidence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sometimes I think God's a really bad writer, because so many of the things we label divine intervention would seem simply ludicrous if someone put them in a story. ❋ Susan Palwick (2008)

But I would also suggest that whoever is saying those things might want to pick up my book and read the foreword, written by an imam, who says that people like me actually live up to what he calls the divine imperative. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This root is the origin of the English word divine and the Latin, deus. ❋ Unknown (2006)

On April 5th, 1984, Ron shared with them what he called a divine revelation. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"A very important day," he said, "A historic day, a day in which all Lebanese could celebrate what he called a divine victory over Israel." ❋ Unknown (2006)

These extreme advocates of what they term the divine "immanence" go so far as to deny all second causes. ❋ George McCready Price (N/A)

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