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divine   (TTS Sound)

The noun divine has 2 senses

• Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah -- (terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God)


• cleric, churchman, divine, ecclesiastic -- (a clergyman or other person in religious orders)

The verb divine has 2 senses

• divine -- (perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers)


• divine -- (search by divining, as if with a rod; "He claimed he could divine underground water")

The adj divine has 6 senses

• divine, godly -- (emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black or white...satanic or godly"-Saturday Review)


• providential, divine -- (resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a providential visitation")


• divine, godlike -- (being or having the nature of a god; "the custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers"-J.G.Frazier; "the divine will"; "the divine capacity for love"; "'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create"-J.G.Saxe)


• divine -- (devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity; "divine worship"; "divine liturgy")


• divine, godlike -- (appropriate to or befitting a god; "the divine strength of Achilles"; "a man of godlike sagacity"; "man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers"-R.H.Roveref)


• divine, elysian, inspired -- (being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance")