divine

adj

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. Beautiful, heavenly.
5. (obsolete)Foreboding; prescient.

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

6. (obsolete)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.”

   “Then rouſe up, my Divine Soul, who art ready for Eternal Glory, and bid the World a final A-dieu, with all its fond Deluſions and gilded Baits of Folly: For the time is now at hand, when thou my moſt precious Jewel, muſt launch out into the Deep of Everlaſting Bliſs”

7. Relating to divinity or theology.

   “church history and other divine learning”

8. (alt-of)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.”

   “The love of your neighbor as yourself, is expressly given as the definition and test of Charity,—not alms-giving,—and this love is not only declared to be the highest of all the Divine commands, but also to be the only true test of love to God.”

   “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.”

noun

1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

   “Poets were the first divines.”

2. 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.”

3. (capitalized, often)God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.

verb

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

   “a sagacity which divined the evil designs”

   “Darest thou […] divine his downfall?”

2. (transitive)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.”

3. (transitive)To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
4. To render divine; to deify.

   “Living on earth like angel new divined.”

name

1. A surname.