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Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness.

Macaulay.

Di*vine"ment (?), n. Divination. [Obs.]

Di*vine"ness, n. The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence. Shak.

Di*vin"er (?), n. 1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.

The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain.

Zech. x. 2.

2. A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things. Locke.

Di*vin"er*ess, n. A woman who divines. Dryden.

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Div"ing (?), a. That dives or is used or diving.

Diving beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle of the family Dytiscidæ, which habitually lives under water; -- called also water tiger. -- Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from above. -- Diving dress. See Submarine armor, under Submarine. -- Diving stone, a kind of jasper.

Di*vin"i*fy (?), v. t. [L. divinus divine + -fy.] To render divine; to deify. [Obs.] "Blessed and divinified soul." Parth. Sacra (1633).

Di*vin"ing (?), a. That divines; for divining.

Divining rod, a rod, commonly of witch hazel, with forked branches, used by those who pretend to discover water or metals under ground.

Di*vin"ing*ly, adv. In a divining manner.

Div`i*nis"tre (?), n. A diviner. [Obs.] " I am no divinistre." Chaucer.

Di*vin"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Divinities (#). [F. divinité, L. divinitas. See Divine, a.] 1. The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead.

When he attributes divinity to other things than God, it is only a divinity by way of participation.

Bp. Stillingfleet.

2. The Deity; the Supreme Being; God.

This the divinity that within us.

Addison.

3. A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.

Beastly divinities, and droves of gods.

Prior.

4. A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man.

God . . . employing these subservient divinities.