Divine \Di*vine"\, v. i.

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

The prophets thereof divine for money. --Micah iii. 11.

2. To have or feel a presage or foreboding.

Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts. --Shak.

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Divine \Di*vine"\, a. [Compar. Diviner; superl. Divinest.]

[F. divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, belonging to a deity; akin to Gr. ?, and L. deus, God. See Deity.]

1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. ``The immensity of the divine nature.'' --Paley.

2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. ``Divine protection.'' --Bacon.

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. ``The divine Apollo said.'' --Shak.

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. Sir J. Davies. ``The divine Desdemona.'' --Shak.

A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. --Prov. xvi. 10.

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

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

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

7. Relating to divinity or theology.

Church history and other divine learning. --South.

Syn: Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; pre["e]minent.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Divine \Di*vine"\, n. [L. divinus a soothsayer, LL., a theologian. See Divine, a.]

1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. ``Poets were the first divines.'' --Denham.

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

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Divine \Di*vine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divined; p. pr. & vb. n. Divining.]

[L. divinare: cf. F. deviner. See Divination.]

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

A sagacity which divined the evil designs. --Bancroft.

2. To foretell; to predict; to presage.

Darest thou . . . divine his downfall? --Shak.

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

Living on earth like angel new divined. --Spenser.

Syn: To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate; forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)