divine1 adjectivedivine2 verb
divinedi‧vine1 /dəˈvaɪn/ ●●○ adjective 
WORD ORIGINdivine1
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French divin, from Latin divus ‘god’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- He offered a brief prayer for divine guidance.
- Singer Sarah Vaughan was often called "the Divine Sarah."
- The death of a child is commonly seen by members of the tribe as divine punishment.
- The emperor was considered the nation's divine spiritual leader.
- Encountering him there, Dinah calmly tells him that she can not do without him-it is the divine will that they marry.
- He was fully human as well as fully divine.
- Instead, they recognized an interlocking trinity of types: animal, human, divine.
- The combination of sweet prunes and rabbit in this classic dish is divine.
- The first Christians also knew that divine resources were more than a match for the dark powers.
- To perform them is to conform to the divine order which governs all human affairs.
- What we may recognize as a scientific principle was enunciated via the theological concept of divine immutability.
- Yes, it was truly divine.
THESAURUS
[usually before noun] connected with God and religion, and therefore treated in a special way – used especially in the following phrases: · the Holy Bible· the holy city of Mecca· a Hindu holy man· They believe they are fighting a holy war.· The priest puts some holy water on the child’s head.
connected with God and religion, and therefore treated in a special way – used especially in the following phrases: · This place is sacred to both Jews and Muslims.· In India, cows are considered sacred.· the Hindu sacred texts· sacred music· a sacred ritual
relating to or coming from God: · the divine right of kings· divine justice· divine providence· Human love should be a reflection of divine love, and so not be selfish or cruel.
relating to the soul, the spirit, and religion, and not with physical things or ordinary human activities: · Your spiritual life is far more important than any material things you could acquire.· the spiritual leader of the Tibetans
a hallowed place is considered to be very holy: · He was buried in hallowed ground.· The Golden Temple is Sikhism’s most hallowed shrine.
made holy by God – used especially about saints: · the blessed Virgin Mary
Longman Language Activatorrelating to religion · Religious education is compulsory in all English schools.· All acts of religious worship were banned.· The tutor discussed her own religious beliefs openly with the students.· Record companies feared the album might cause offence to people on religious grounds.· The walls were decorated with religious symbols.· a religious festival
connected with God and religion, and therefore treated in a special way, or thought to have special qualities or powers: · Jerusalem is a holy city for Jews, Christians, and Muslims.· In Islam, only the Qur'an is considered holy.· the holy month of Ramadan· The priest sprinkled each member of the congregation with holy water.
connected with the soul, the spirit, and religion, and not with physical things or ordinary human activities: · She came seeking spiritual guidance.· the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people· Just as the emotional needs of the mentally disabled are overlooked, so too are their spiritual needs.· The last sacrament represents the final step in Christ's spiritual journey.
very holy and therefore treated with great respect: · a choir specialising in sacred music· the miraculous power of sacred relicsconsider something sacred/regard something as sacred: · The Japanese regard Mount Fuji as a sacred mountain.· Certain animals were considered sacred by the Aztecs.· The olive tree was regarded as sacred to the goddess Athena.
connected with or coming from God: · He offered a brief prayer for divine guidance.· The death of a child is commonly seen by members of the tribe as divine punishment.
involving or run by people or a particular religion - use this especially about schools and official religious groups: · The vast majority of people in the UK are opposed to more faith-based schools, saying they would be socially divisive.· Community leaders and those involved in faith organizations met to discuss what could be done about the recent disturbances.
WORD SETSacolyte, nounafterlife, nounagnostic, nounangel, nounanimism, nounanoint, verbapostasy, nounapostate, nounarchangel, nounbelieve, verbbeliever, nounbell-ringer, nounbless, verbblessed, adjectiveblessing, nouncelebrant, nounChristian Science, nouncircumcise, verbcircumcision, nouncommunion, nounconfession, nounconvent, nounconversion, nounconvert, nouncoreligionist, nouncowl, nouncredo, nouncreed, nouncult, noundaemon, nounDecalogue, noundefrock, verbdeism, noundenomination, noundenominational, adjectivedevotee, noundevotion, noundevotional, adjectivedevout, adjectivedivine, adjectivedivinity, noundruid, nounfaith, nounfast day, nounfeast, nounfervour, nounfiesta, nounfollow, verbfrankincense, noungentile, noungod, noungoddess, noungrace, nounhabit, nounhair shirt, nounhallelujah, interjectionhallowed, adjectivehalo, nounheathen, adjectiveheathen, nounheaven, nounheavenly, adjectivehell, nounheresy, nounheretic, nounhermit, nounhermitage, nounheterodox, adjectivehigh priest, nounidol, nounidolatry, nounincarnation, nounincense, nouninfidel, nounintercession, nouninvocation, nouninvoke, verbirreligious, adjective-ism, suffixlayman, nounlaywoman, nounlibation, nounliturgical, adjectiveliturgy, nounmartyr, nounmartyr, verbmeditate, verbmeditation, nounmission, nounmonastery, nounmonastic, adjectivemonk, nounmonotheism, nounMoonie, nounMormon, nounMosaic, adjectivemystery play, nounmystic, nounmystical, adjectivemysticism, nounneophyte, nounnovice, nounnovitiate, nounnuminous, adjectivenun, nounnunnery, nounoblation, nounobservance, nounoffering, nounOlympian, adjectiveordain, verborder, nounorthodox, adjectiveotherworldly, adjectivepagan, adjectivepagan, nounpantheism, nounpantheon, nounParsee, nounpilgrim, nounpilgrimage, nounpious, adjectivepluralism, nounpolytheism, nounpractise, verbpray, verbprayer, nounprayer wheel, nounpreach, verbpreacher, nounpriest, nounpriestess, nounpriesthood, nounpriestly, adjectiveprophet, nounprophetess, nounpurify, verbRasta, nounRastafarian, nounRastaman, nounRE, nounrecant, verbreincarnation, nounreligious, adjectivereligiously, adverbreliquary, nounrepent, verbretreat, nounrevelation, nounrevivalism, nounrite, nounritual, nounsacred, adjectivesacrifice, nounsacrifice, verbsacrificial, adjectivesanctify, verbsanctity, nounsanctuary, nounsanctum, nounsatanism, nounscripture, nounsect, nounsectarian, adjectiveservice, nounshaman, nounShinto, nounshrine, nounsin, nounsin, verbsinful, adjectivesinner, nounsoul, nounspirit, nounspiritual, adjectivespiritualism, nounspirituality, nounSr, sun god, nounsuppliant, nounsupplicant, nounsupplication, nounSupreme Being, nounTao, nounTaoism, nountemple, nountenet, nounthanksgiving, nountheism, nountheo-, prefixtheocracy, nountheologian, nountheological college, nountheology, nountonsure, nountranscendental, adjectivetranscendental meditation, nountransmigration, noununbelief, noununbeliever, nounungodly, adjectiveunholy, adjectiveunorthodox, adjectivevisionary, nounvoodoo, nounvotary, nounworship, verbworship, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
faith in divine providence divine power divine loveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Being my wife doesn’t give you the divine right to read my mail. divine retribution (=punishment by God)COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
1coming from or relating to God or a goddivine intervention/providence/revelation/guidance etc faith in divine providence divine power divine love Being my wife doesn’t give you the divine right to read my mail. (=inspiration from God)· He prayed for divine inspiration.
(=the mercy of God)· He did not lose his faith in God and divine mercy.
divine retribution (=punishment by God)· There were twenty days in the month, each being regarded as divine and of distinctive omen.· Sometimes they were regarded as divine and worshiped.· He is certainly not intended to be regarded as divine.· He had to be seen to be human but not so human as to challenge his credibility as divine.· The alliance, whether viewed as divine or malign, was formally enshrined in the School Certificate examination defined in 1917.· Many people would refer to them more as superhuman than as divine characters.· He is using your partner as divine sandpaper to take off the rough edges.
NOUN· The final surprise is that in the Old Testament the Spirit does not appear as a divine being.· The people who made these images of divine beings and snakes did not do so arbitrarily.· But it does make clear a belief that the divine being reveals or manifests its nature in the world.· And yet, the idea of a Goddess, a wholly divine being, actually being born struck them as bizarre.· Their descriptions seem sufficiently close to one another to be taken as descriptions of the same divine being.· That would entail the existence of causal relations between such persons, in all their physical complexity, and the divine being.
· These two chapters move through the entire world of images and ideas surrounding the divine body.· The worshipper who entered them felt as if he or she were entering a divine body.· When we see existence itself as the divine body we create a more reciprocal relationship.· How did the ancient people regard the divine body and its physical reality?
· The divine drama illuminated for us by the Holy Spirit disintegrates into puzzles, conundrums and endless interpretations.· This, of course, brings us right back to the beginning of the divine drama.· But if - for whatever reason - you take the Devil out of the redemption story, the divine drama is lost.· Does not the divine drama seem to suggest that the Devil is calling the tune?
· They would have said that their obsession was with divine grace.
· The ensuing silence indicated that I had not helped matters. l stared at my Keds, hoping for divine guidance.· The future holds unlimited possibilities for those who will accept divine guidance and grace.· Iphigenia and the others are acting under divine guidance.
· A simple enough rule which struck his rather undeveloped mind with the force of divine inspiration.
· In the absence of divine intervention, virgin birth for mammals is not an option.· And barring divine intervention, also its last.· Nor did he find any room for divine intervention.· Also patron of divine intervention and pregnant women.· Looking back from the 860s, Charles saw this as the direct result of divine intervention.· One is that devout patients may forgo treatment and wait for divine intervention.· The future, politically and economically, looks quite too far gone for anything but a divine intervention to help.· So how about a little divine intervention?
· Some might call that divine justice.
· Evidently the attainment of an ordered world consonant with divine laws remained the ideological framework of antislavery.· Subjects therefore had to obey the laws of their earthly governors, in whatever they commanded that was not contrary to divine law.· Only immediate action was appropriate in abolishing a system which infringed divine law.· If there is no divine law men must try to agree among themselves what is right and what is wrong.· History shows a variety of such sources: immemorial custom, divine law, the law of nature, a constitution.
· From there, they progressed to the enthralling problem of human and divine love.· To deny the reality of the divine love is to enter the dark territory where it can not be found.· Her husband, the Rev. George Butler, understood it as a true reflection of divine love.
· As a gift of divine origin, there was nothing sacrilegious in their use.· The emperor, who many believed to have divine origins, appeared to be merely human after all.· We believe that human beings have a divine origin and an eternal destiny.· It is, however, true that Roman aristocrats were usually wary of divine origins.
· Paul says' the weapons we fight with ... have divine power to demolish strongholds.· All things in heaven and earth were mysteriously linked with the divine powers, but beautiful things most of all.· The true whole divine power remained hidden and mysterious and mortal man was unable to see its perfection.· Anyone who challenges my authority will have to stand up to this divine power when I come to Corinth.
· Now every place where the Meal of the Lord is celebrated is made holy by this divine presence.
· We thought there was some sort of divine providence which would somehow or other get us away.· That is why the divine providence revealed himself in story.· But divine providence interceded, for the wheel broke, the spikes flying off and injuring many bystanders.· Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of our contemporaries, the connection of events.
· It finds a place for everyone within the divine purpose, regardless of their background, status or gender.· Nor do I accept the criticism of those who say this is a lightweight view of the divine purpose of humankind.· What is truly disconcerting about the story is the result of the fall, and the divine purpose behind it.
· The Four Horse Men of the Apocalypse apparently felt it inappropriate to arrive as a messenger of divine retribution.· It is, I suppose, divine retribution for the treatment your whiteness receives in certain doctors' surgeries.· Another piece of divine retribution for all those hours spent ticking others off came relatively recently.· If California fell into the ocean, would it be divine retribution for making movies like this?
· On the one side the appeal was to reason; on the other, to faith and special divine revelation.· To say that the Church was the sole conduit of divine revelation was to dictate terms to the Almighty.· It represents a direct divine revelation that delivers a capacity for understanding beyond the parameters of normal discourse.· This, if you like, is divine revelation...
· He was now a young Anglo-Catholic who acquired the Catholic sense of divine rights in the Church which no State can touch.· I had a divine right and a solemn duty to warn them, but failed miserably.· Anglican clergymen busied themselves with preaching up theories of divine right and non-resistance.· At a stroke the party managers and fixers have lost their assumption of a divine right to power.· Constantine was declared to be Emperor by divine right.· James sought to reassert the divine right of kings, and Parliament combined against him.· Both acts are morally wrong - Edward should not have abused his divine right and curried favour by dishing out peerages.
· Even the claim that the natural order reflected the contingency of a divine will could pull in two directions.· The modern anguish stems from the absurdity of the allegory, once its center, divine Will, is removed.· Although the innocent might suffer, such tragedies were often accepted philosophically as part of the divine will or punishment.· Encountering him there, Dinah calmly tells him that she can not do without him-it is the divine will that they marry.· The prophets they portray were at once more civilized than their masters and more closely in touch with the divine will.· As long as matter was considered to be inert, its motion could be ascribed to the divine will.
· By distinguishing too sharply between the divine Word and the divine Spirit the Church has lost a most important biblical perspective.· Arius differed from Origen in seeing the coming forth of the divine Word as a service to the inferior created order.
faith in divine providence divine power divine love2 old-fashioned very pleasant or good—divinely adverb: a divinely inspired ideadivine1 adjectivedivine2 verb
divinedivine2 verb VERB TABLE
divine
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | divine |
| he, she, it | divines | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | divined |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have divined |
| he, she, it | has divined | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had divined |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will divine |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have divined |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am divining |
| he, she, it | is divining | |
| you, we, they | are divining | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was divining |
| you, we, they | were divining | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been divining |
| he, she, it | has been divining | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been divining |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be divining |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been divining |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- He had apparently divined from my expression that I was not prepared.
- Money experts now begin the tricky business of divining the fate of the economy.
- No one in the twenties could have divined this over-arching design, nor did Pound suppose that anyone would.
- Others will divine whether the Martins were lucky hobbyists or party stooges.
- Spoken words were not crucial because people should be able to divine the next move.
- They divined the contents of sealed envelopes by the simple expedient of opening the staples at the other end of the envelope.
- Together they divined for Charlie's talent.
- You can still divine water with a rod and be an agnostic.
WORD SETS
abominable snowman, nounapparition, nounbogey, nounbogeyman, nounboogeyman, nounchangeling, noundivine, verbdjinn, noundoppelganger, noundowse, verbdowser, noundowsing rod, noundragon, noundryad, noundwarf, nounEaster Bunny, nounelf, nounelixir, nounfairy, nounfairy godmother, nounfairyland, nounfairy tale, nounFather Christmas, nounfolk, adjectivefolk hero, noungenie, nounghost, noungiant, noungiantess, noungnome, noungoblin, noungremlin, nounhobgoblin, nounimp, nounleprechaun, nounleviathan, nounley, nounlore, nounmagic carpet, nounmermaid, nounmonster, nounnecromancy, nounnever-never land, nounnymph, nounogre, nounphiltre, nounpixie, nounsandman, nounSanta Claus, nounspectre, nounsprite, nounstardust, nounsuperstition, nounsuperstitious, adjectivesylph, nountale, nountotem, nountroll, noununicorn, nounurban myth, nounvampire, nounwerewolf, nounwishing well, nounyeti, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a divining rod (=the stick used for this)COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Being my wife doesn’t give you the divine right to read my mail. divine retribution (=punishment by God)
1[transitive] literary to discover or guess somethingdivine that a divining rod (=the stick used for this) Being my wife doesn’t give you the divine right to read my mail. (=inspiration from God)· He prayed for divine inspiration.
(=the mercy of God)· He did not lose his faith in God and divine mercy.
divine retribution (=punishment by God) Somehow, the children had divined that he was lying.2[intransitive] to search for underground water or minerals using a Y-shaped stick: a divining rod (=the stick used for this)—diviner noun [countable]