Divine /(?)/

1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.
2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.
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.
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.

   A divine sentence is in the lips of the king.

   But not to one in this benighted age Is that diviner inspiration given.

6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Obs.]

   Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave him.

7. Relating to divinity or theology.

   Church history and other divine learning.

1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.

   The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.

imp. & p. p. Divined; p. pr. & vb. n. Divining

1. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.

   A sagacity which divined the evil designs.

2. To foretell; to predict; to presage.

   Darest thou . . . divine his downfall?

3. To render divine; to deify. [Obs.]

   Living on earth like angel new divined.

1. To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.

   The prophets thereof divine for money.

2. To have or feel a presage or foreboding.

   Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts.

3. To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.