noun
- Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God.
- A clergyman or other person in religious orders.
- synonyms: cleric, churchman, ecclesiastic
verb
- Perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers.
- Search by divining, as if with a rod.
- usage: "He claimed he could divine underground water"
adjective
- Emanating from God."divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black or white... Satanic or godly-Saturday Review
- synonyms: godly
- Resulting from divine providence.
- usage: "providential care"; "a providential visitation"
- synonyms: providential
- 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
- synonyms: godlike
- Devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity.
- usage: "divine worship"; "divine liturgy"
- 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
- synonyms: godlike
- Being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods.
- usage: "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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