Divine - Definition

adj 1: emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance";
"everything is black or white...satanic or
godly"-Saturday Review [syn: divine, godly]
2: resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a
providential visitation" [syn: providential, divine]
3: 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 [syn: divine, godlike]
4: devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity; "divine
worship"; "divine liturgy"
5: 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 [syn:
divine, godlike]
6: 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"
[syn: divine, elysian, inspired]
n 1: terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God [syn: Godhead,
Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty,
Almighty, Jehovah]
2: a clergyman or other person in religious orders [syn:
cleric, churchman, divine, ecclesiastic]
v 1: perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable
perceptive powers
2: search by divining, as if with a rod; "He claimed he could
divine underground water"