divine

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods

   Their party was simply divine.

2. 2
   adj

   emanating from God

   divine judgment

3. 3
   adj

   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

4. 4
   adj

   appropriate to or befitting a god

   the divine strength of Achilles

5. 5
   adj

   devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity

   divine worship

6. 6
   verb

   search by divining, as if with a rod

   They claimed they could divine underground water.

7. 7
   adj

   Of or pertaining to a god.

   a divine being

8. 8
   adj

   Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.

   divine power

Etymology

Replaced Middle English devine, devin from Middle French deviner, from Latin dīvīnō.