divine

adjective

/dɪˈvaɪn/

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[usually before noun] coming from or connected with God or a god
- divine law/love/will
- divine intervention (= help from God to change a situation)
Topics Religion and festivalsc1
(old-fashioned) wonderful; beautiful
- That mango tasted divine!

Word Originadjective late Middle English: via Old French from Latin divinus, from divus ‘godlike’ (related to deus ‘god’).

divine

verb

/dɪˈvaɪn/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they divine	/dɪˈvaɪn/ /dɪˈvaɪn/
he / she / it divines	/dɪˈvaɪnz/ /dɪˈvaɪnz/
past simple divined	/dɪˈvaɪnd/ /dɪˈvaɪnd/
past participle divined	/dɪˈvaɪnd/ /dɪˈvaɪnd/
-ing form divining	/dɪˈvaɪnɪŋ/ /dɪˈvaɪnɪŋ/

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[transitive] divine what, whether, etc… | divine something (formal) to find out something by guessing
- She could divine what he was thinking just by looking at him.
- They had quickly divined that he was a fraud.
Topics Doubt, guessing and certaintyc2
[transitive, intransitive] divine (something) to search for underground water using a stick in the shape of a Y, called a divining rod

Word Originverb late Middle English: from Old French deviner ‘predict’, from Latin divinare, from divinus, from divus ‘godlike’ (related to deus ‘god’).