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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Divine \Di*vine"\, v. i.
1. To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination;
to utter prognostications.
The prophets thereof divine for money. --Micah iii.
11.
2. To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts. --Shak.
3. To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.
Divine \Di*vine"\, a. [Compar. {Diviner}; superl. {Divinest}.]
[F. divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus,
dius, belonging to a deity; akin to Gr. ?, and L. deus, God.
See {Deity}.]
1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine
will. ``The immensity of the divine nature.'' --Paley.
2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. ``Divine
protection.'' --Bacon.
3. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious;
pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine
worship.
4. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of
the nature of a god or the gods. ``The divine Apollo
said.'' --Shak.
5. 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.
6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Obs.]
Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave
him. --Milton.
7. Relating to divinity or theology.
Church history and other divine learning. --South.
Syn: Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial;
pious; holy; sacred; pre["e]minent.
Divine \Di*vine"\, n. [L. divinus a soothsayer, LL., a
theologian. See {Divine}, a.]
1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. ``Poets were the
first divines.'' --Denham.
2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
The first divines of New England were surpassed by
none in extensive erudition. --J.
Woodbridge.
Divine \Di*vine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Divined}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Divining}.] [L. divinare: cf. F. deviner. See
{Divination}.]
1. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to
conjecture.
A sagacity which divined the evil designs.
--Bancroft.
2. To foretell; to predict; to presage.
Darest thou . . . divine his downfall? --Shak.
3. To render divine; to deify. [Obs.]
Living on earth like angel new divined. --Spenser.
Syn: To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate;
forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise.
資料來源 : WordNet®
Divine
n 1: terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God [syn: {Godhead},
{Lord}, {Creator}, {Maker}, {God Almighty}, {Almighty},
{Jehovah}]
2: a clergyman or other person in religious orders [syn: {cleric},
{churchman}, {ecclesiastic}]