Definition of Divine

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Divine

Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.

Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.

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.

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.

Presageful; foreboding; prescient.

Relating to divinity or theology.

One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

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

To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.

To foretell; to predict; to presage.

To render divine; to deify.

To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.

To have or feel a presage or foreboding.

To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.

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Divine Quotations

To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope

Genius, when young, is divine.
Benjamin Disraeli

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
Lydia M. Child

Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."
Friedrich Nietzsche

Divine Translations

divine in Dutch is goddelijk
divine in French is divin
divine in Italian is divino
divine in Latin is divinus
divine in Norwegian is guddommelig
divine in Spanish is divino


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