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divine

adj
/dɪˈvaɪn/

Etymology

From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”). Displaced native Old English godcund.

  1. derived from dīvīnō
  2. derived from deviner

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to a god.

    • a divine being
    • divine existence

  2. Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.

    • divine power

  3. Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.

    • divine skill
    • Divine decadence darling!
  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

    1. Beautiful, heavenly.

    2. Foreboding

      Foreboding; prescient.

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

    3. immortal

      immortal; elect or saved after death

      • Now Thomas Mowbray do I turne to thee, And marke my greeting well: for what I ſpeake, My body ſhall make good vpon this earth, Or my diuine ſoule anſwer it in heauen.
      • (Of that at leaſure) but the bloody ſtage On which to act, Generall this night is thine, Thou lyeſt downe mortall, who muſt riſe diuine.

    4. Relating to divinity or theology.

      • church history and other divine learning

    5. One skilled in divinity

      One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

      • Poets were the first divines.

    6. A minister of the gospel

      A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.

      • December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth The first divines of New England […] were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.

    7. God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.

    8. To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.

      • a sagacity which divined the evil designs
      • Darest thou […] divine his downfall?

    9. To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.

      • no secret can be told To any who divined it not before
      • If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish.
      • I suppose that we truly are divining that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are.

    10. To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.

    11. To render divine

      To render divine; to deify.

      • Living on earth like angel new divined.

    12. A surname.

    13. Alternative letter-case form of divine.

      • My mind was never in a holier frame, than while I gazed on that untroubled image of Divine rest.
      • A man was permitted to think as he pleased about the Bible; but it was accounted blasphemy to whisper a suspicion that any clause in the American Constitution was not written by Divine inspiration.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at divine. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at divine. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at divine

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA