divine

adjetivo

1. 1

   Of or pertaining to a god.

   a divine being

   divine existence

2. 2

   Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.

   divine power

3. 3

   Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.

   divine skill

   Divine decadence darling!

4. 4

   Beautiful, heavenly.

5. 5

   obsoletoForeboding; prescient.

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

6. 6

   obsoletoimmortal; 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. 7

   Relating to divinity or theology.

   church history and other divine learning

substantivo

1. 1

   One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

   Poets were the first divines.

2. 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. 3

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

verbo

1. 1

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

   a sagacity which divined the evil designs

   Darest thou […] divine his downfall?

2. 2

   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.

   From time to time Mr. Big would have her brought over to the room where Bond had seen him. There she would be told to divine whether some man or woman, generally bound to the chair, was lying or not.

   I suppose that we truly are divining that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are.

3. 3

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

4. 4

   To render divine; to deify.

   Living on earth like angel new divined.

Formas

plural

divines

comparativo

more divine

superlativo

most divine

pretérito

divined

particípio passado

divined

gerúndio

divining

3.ª pessoa do singular

divines