divine

adjective

Pronunciation: /dɪˈvaɪn/

Etymology: From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”). Displaced native Old English godcund.

Of or pertaining to a god.
“a divine being”
“divine existence”
Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
“divine power”
Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
“divine skill”
“Divine decadence darling!”
Beautiful, heavenly.
Foreboding; prescient.
“Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, / Misgave him.”
immortal; elect or saved after death
“Now Thomas Mowbray do I turne to thee, And marke my greeting well: for what I ſpeake, My body ſhall make good vpon this earth, Or my diuine ſoule anſwer it in heauen.”
“(Of that at leaſure) but the bloody ſtage On which to act, Generall this night is thine, Thou lyeſt downe mortall, who muſt riſe diuine.”
Relating to divinity or theology.
“church history and other divine learning”

Etymology: From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”). Displaced native Old English godcund.

One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
“Poets were the first divines.”
A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
“December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth The first divines of New England […] were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.”
God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.

Etymology: Replaced Middle English devine, devin from Middle French deviner, from Latin dīvīnō.

To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
“a sagacity which divined the evil designs”
“Darest thou […] divine his downfall?”
To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
“no secret can be told To any who divined it not before”
“If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish.”
To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
To render divine; to deify.
“Living on earth like angel new divined.”