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<hw>Di*vine"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.</def>

<blockquote>The prophets thereof <b>divine</b> for money. <i>Micah iii. 11.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To have or feel a presage or foreboding.</def>

<blockquote>Suggest but truth to my <b>divining</b> thoughts. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To conjecture or guess; <as>as, to <ex>divine</ex> rightly</as>.</def>

<h1>Divinely</h1> <Xpage=438>

<hw>Di*vine"ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree.</def>

<blockquote>Most <b>divinely</b> fair. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>By the agency or influence of God.</def>

<blockquote><b>Divinely</b> set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Divinement</h1> <Xpage=438>

<hw>Di*vine"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Divination.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Divineness</h1> <Xpage=438>

<hw>Di*vine"ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Diviner</h1> <Xpage=438>

<hw>Di*vin"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>diviners</b> have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. <i>Zech. x. 2.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things.</def>

<i>Locke.</i>

<h1>Divineress</h1> <Xpage=438>

<hw>Di*vin"er*ess</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A woman who divines.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

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