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Adjective divine has 6 senses
  1. divine, godly - emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black1 or white...satanic or godlyt"-Saturday Rev.
    Antonym: earthly (indirect, via heavenly)
  2. providential, divine - resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a providential visitation"
    Antonym: earthly (indirect, via heavenly)
  3. divine, godlike - 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
    Antonym: earthly (indirect, via heavenly)
  4. divine - devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity; "divine worship"; "divine liturgy"
    Antonym:     profane (indirect, via sacred)
  5. divine, godlike - 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
    Antonym: subhuman (indirect, via superhuman)
  6. divine, elysian, inspired - of such surpassing excellence as to suggest divine inspiration; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance"
    Antonyms: inglorious, dishonorable (indirect, via glorious)
,Noun divine has 2 senses
  1. Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah - terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
    --1 is a kind of God, Supreme Being
    --1 has particulars:
     Trinity, Holy Trinity, Blessed Trinity, Sacred Trinity; hypostasis
  2. cleric, churchman, divine, ecclesiastic - a clergyman or other person in religious orders
    --2 is a kind of clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth
    --2 has particulars:
     ordainer; pardoner; a Kempis, Thomas a Kempis; Bruno, Saint Bruno, St. Bruno
,Verb divine has 2 senses
  1. divine - perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers
    --1 is one way to     perceive, comprehend
    Derived forms: noun divination2, noun divination3, noun diviner1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
  2. divine - search by divining, as if with a rod; "He claimed he could divine underground water"
    --2 is one way to     search, seek, look for
    Derived form: noun diviner1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s something
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