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<p><b>3.</b> <def>Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; <as>as, <ex>divine</ex> service; <ex>divine</ex> songs; <ex>divine</ex> worship.</as></def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods.</def> "The <i>divine</i> Apollo said."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; <as>as, the <ex>divinest</ex> mind</as>. <i>Sir J</i>. <i>Davies</i>.</def> "The <i>divine</i> Desdemona."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>A <b>divine</b> sentence is in the lips of the king. <i>Prov. xvi. 10.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>But not to one in this benighted age Is that <b>diviner</b> inspiration given. <i>Gray.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Presageful; foreboding; prescient.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Yet oft his heart, <b>divine</b> of something ill, Misgave him. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>Relating to divinity or theology.</def>

<blockquote>Church history and other <b>divine</b> learning. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; pre\'89minent.</syn>

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<hw>Di*vine"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>divinus</ets> a soothsayer, LL., a theologian. See <er>Divine</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>One skilled in divinity; a theologian.</def> "Poets were the first <i>divines</i>."

<i>Denham.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.</def>

<blockquote>The first <b>divines</b> of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. <i>J. Woodbridge.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Di*vine"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Divined</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Divining</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>divinare</ets>: cf. F. <ets>deviner</ets>. See <er>Divination</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.</def>

<blockquote>A sagacity which <b>divined</b> the evil designs. <i>Bancroft.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To foretell; to predict; to presage.</def>

<blockquote>Darest thou . . . <b>divine</b> his downfall? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To render divine; to deify.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Living on earth like angel new <b>divined</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate; forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise.</syn>

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