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单词 divine
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divinen.2

/dɪˈvʌɪn/
Forms: Also Middle English devine, devyne, dyvyne.
Etymology: < Old French devin soothsayer (13th cent. in Littré), also later devin, divin theologian (15th cent. in Godefroy); the former the popular descendant of Latin dīvīnus soothsayer (become *devīnus in late Latin); the latter representing medieval Latin dīvīnus doctor of divinity, theologian; both substantive uses of Latin dīvīnus adjective. In both senses confirmed in English to the Latin spelling.
†1. A diviner, soothsayer, augur; a prophet, seer.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [noun] > practitioner of
wielerOE
divinerc1330
divine1340
divinisterc1405
ruspicerc1475
sortilegerc1475
sortilege1483
cole-prophet1532
augur1570
divinator1608
sortiary1652
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 19 Þe deuines and þe wichen and þe charmeresses þet workeþ be þe dyeules crefte.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 66 A gret Deuyn þat cleped was Calkas..Knew wel þat Troye sholde destroyed be By answere of his god.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1302 Dere Daniel also, þat watz deuine noble.
c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) ii. i. 42 b Saul had cast out all diuines From Israell, and eche diuineresse.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccxx [ccxvi]. 680 (note) Of these deuins, arioles, and charmers, there were certayne brente at Parys.
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 2/2 in Chron. I To deriue the name of their diuines called Magi from him [sc. Magus].
2.
a. One who has officially to do with ‘divine things’; formerly, any ecclesiastic, clergyman, or priest; now, one skilled in divinity; a theologian.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun]
God's maneOE
priestOE
clerkc1050
secularc1290
vicary1303
minister1340
divinec1380
man of Godc1384
kirkmana1400
man of the churchc1400
cockc1405
Ecclesiastc1405
spiritual1441
ministrator1450
abbé1530
reverend1547
churchman1549
tippet-captain?1550
tippet knight1551
tippet man1551
public minister1564
reading minister1572
clergyman1577
clerk1577
padre1584
minstrel1586
spiritual1600
cleric1623
cassock1628
Levite1640
gownsman1641
teaching elder1642
ecclesiastic1651
religionist1651
crape1682
crape-gown-man1682
man in black1692
soul driver1699
secularist1716
autem jet1737
liturge1737
officiant1740
snub-devil1785
soul doctor1785
officiator1801
umfundisi1825
crape-man1826
clerical1837
God-man1842
Pfarrer1844
liturgist1848
white-choker1851
rook1859
shovel hat1859
sky pilot1865
ecclesiastical1883
joss-pidgin-man1886
josser1887
sin-shiftera1912
sin-buster1931
parch1944
society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > theologian > [noun]
diviner1377
theologian1483
theologuea1500
theologicianc1560
theologer1588
theologist1641
divine1662
theologant1678
pantheologist1727
anthroposophist1851
theologizer1857–8
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 376 Bastard dyvynes seien..þat þes wordis of Crist ben fals.
1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) Prol. xiii. 51 Dyuynys that schulden passe othere men in clennesse and hoolynesse.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 7503 He was a clerke and gude deuyne.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. ii. 14 It is a good diuine that followes his owne instructions. View more context for this quotation
1662 (title) The works of Mr. Richard Hooker, (that learned, godly, judicious, and eloquent divine).
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1780 II. 323 He wrote a young clergyman..the following..letter, which contains valuable advice to Divines in general.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 12 Taylor, the Shakspeare of divines.
1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. ii. 52 We see in him the gentle mystic rather than the stern divine.
†b. Applied to non-Christian writers on theology, and to the priests of heathen religions. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > theologian > [noun] > non-Christian
divinea1387
divinera1387
theologian1603
theologer1609
theologista1638
theologizer1686
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > heathen (general)
priestc1275
flamenc1400
fire-kindler1563
clergyman1609
fetisheer1613
divinea1616
churchman1632
shaman1698
Baal-priest1834
santero1950
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 219 Among alle manere of philosofres þey þat were icleped deuynes [L. qui theologi vocabantur] bere þe prys.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. x. 164 Pythagoras and all the old Diuines affirme, that God or the only One is the beginner of al things.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. i. 19 The Oracle (Thus by Apollo's great Diuine seal'd vp). View more context for this quotation
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divineadj.n.1

/dɪˈvʌɪn/
Forms: Middle English–1500s devin(e, de-, dyvyn(e, Middle English–1500s divyne, Scottish de-, dywyne, 1500s dyvine, 1600s divin, Middle English– divine.
Etymology: Middle English devine , divine , < Old French devin (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), later divin < Latin dīvīnus pertaining to a deity. In medieval Latin dīvīnus bore the sense of theologus . Old French devin was the word of popular formation; divin was a learned assimilation to the ancient Latin type, which in French became the accepted form for the adjective, and in English for all senses: compare divine n.2
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to God or a god.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > [adjective]
holyc825
divinec1374
greatc1380
sainta1400
divinelyc1400
deific1490
ethereala1522
deifical1563
godly1582
numinous1647
numinal1652
deiform1654
deical1662
sacred1697
theistic1854
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) v. pr. ii. 118 The speculacion or lookynge of the deuyne thoght.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Deut. i. 13 Ȝyue ȝe of ȝou men wise in dyuyn thingis.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Biv The diuine nature or godhed.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. x. sig. K6v So darke are earthly thinges compard to things diuine.
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 17 Many..complain of divin Providence for suffering Adam to transgresse.
1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 30 To Err is Humane; to Forgive, Divine.
1878 R. W. Dale Lect. Preaching (ed. 3) 290 Divine acts are not less Divine because they do not happen to be recorded in the Canonical Scriptures.
2. Given by or proceeding from God; having the sanction of or inspired by God. divine right, a right conferred by or based on the ordinance or appointment of God. divine right of kings, that claimed according to the doctrine that (legitimate) kings derive their power from God alone, unlimited by any rights on the part of their subjects. In English History, the phrase came into specific use in the 17th cent., when the claim was prominently made for the Stuart kings.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [adjective] > proceeding from
divinec1386
c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 67 By precept of the Messager diuyn.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. i. i. 2 Dywyne Scrypture.
a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 127 in Poems (1981) 115 Ȝe gaue me anis ane deuine responsaill That I suld be the flour of luif in Troy.
1567 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 35 Quhome God did place be ordinance dewyne.
a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie (1648) viii. sig. V4v Unto Kings by humane Right, honour by very Divine Right, is due.
1625 C. Burges New Discouery Personal Tithes 2 Whether Tithes be perpetually due to the Ministers of the Gospell by Diuine Right.
1640 Const. & Canons i. B iv b The most High and Sacred order of Kings is of Divine right, being the ordinance of God himself.
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 28 The Divine right of Episcopacy was then valiantly asserted.
1742 A. Pope New Dunciad 182 The right divine of kings to govern wrong.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. iii. 25 I will not put the title of the clergy to tithes upon any divine right, though such a right certainly commenced, and I believe as certainly ceased, with the Jewish theocracy.
1835 J. Waterworth Exam. Princ. Protestantism 95 Did this unrivalled Biblist acknowledge any writings as divine, which the Jews did not receive as canonical?
1865 J. R. Seeley Ecce Homo (ed. 8) iv. 31 In obedience to an irresistible divine impulse.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire ii. 59 The apologies of Jesuit writers for the assassination of tyrants deserve an important place in the history of the doctrine of divine right.
3. Addressed, appropriated, or devoted to God; religious, sacred. divine office, the stated office or service of daily prayer; the canonical hours.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > [adjective]
hallowedc900
holyc1000
blessedc1200
blissfula1225
seelya1225
yblessed1297
sacred13..
saint1377
devoutc1380
divinec1380
consecratec1386
dedicatec1386
benedighta1400
happyc1405
sillya1450
sacrate?a1475
sanctificatec1485
sacrificed?1504
sacrea1535
religious1549
vowed1585
anointed1595
devote1597
devoted1597
consecrated1599
sacrosanct1601
sanctimonious1604
sanctified1607
dedicated1609
divined1624
sacrosanctious1629
reverend1631
celebrate1632
divinified1633
sacrosanctified1693
sanctimonial1721
sacramental1851
divinized1852
sacral1882
sanct1890
sanctifiable1894
sacramented1914
hierophanic1927
kramat1947
sacralized1979
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 41 Do clerkis deuyn officis after þe ordre of þe holy Chirche of rome.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 122 Ful wel she soong the seruyce dyuyne.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 182 Do ȝour obseruance devyne To him that is of kingis king.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Pref. sig. ❧.i The common prayers in the Chur[c]he, commonlye called diuine seruice.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cviii. sig. G3 Yet like prayers diuine, I must each day say ore the very same. View more context for this quotation
1672 J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 6) i. 73 The Tunes of Psalms are of general use, all who are true Lovers of Divine Musick will have them in estimation.
1682 Stoddon (title) An Essay on a Question relating to Divine Worship.
1720 Watts (title) Divine Songs, attempted in easy language, for the use of children.
1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 189/1 Divine Service, tenure by, an obsolete holding, in which the tenants were obliged to do some special divine services in certain, as to sing so many masses, to distribute such a sum in alms, etc.
1880 W. Smith & S. Cheetham Dict. Christian Antiq. II. at Divine office Offices for the several hours of prayer, which together constitute the Divine Office, as distinguished from the liturgy.
1889 F. W. Farrar Ambrose in Lives Fathers II. xv. §3. 169 Theodosius..as a penitent..abstained from presenting himself at divine service.
4.
a. Partaking of the nature of God; characteristic of or consonant to deity; godlike; heavenly, celestial.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [adjective] > of a heavenly nature
heavenlyOE
divinec1374
celestc1420
celestinec1430
supernal1483
celestial1484
celical1521
heavenlike1542
paradisiacal1660
celic1663
celestiousa1691
celestical1695
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) v. pr. ii. 118 Why in the souereynes dyuynes substaunces, þat is to seyn in spiritz, Iugement is moore cleere.
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 167 Men saiden, that she was divine, And the goddess of sapience.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 275 All the hewinlie court divyne.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. viii. 65 The diuiner part in relation vnto the baser of our soules.
1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 37 Hail divinest Melancholy, Whose Saintly visage is too bright To hit the Sense of human sight.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 40 Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine . View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden Alexander's Feast vii. 7 At last Divine Cecilia came.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam Prol. p. vi Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 97 The strains..of divinest music in which the voice of inspiration died away.
†b. Immortal; beatified. Obsolete.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > [adjective] > immortal
uncorruptible1594
divine1597
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 38 For what I speake My body shall make good vpon this earth, Or my diuine soule answer it in heauen. View more context for this quotation
1632 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. Iron Age sig. H2v Thou lyest downe mortall, who must rise diuine.
5. In weaker sense: More than human, excellent in a superhuman degree.
a. Of persons: Of more than human or ordinary excellence; pre-eminently gifted; in the highest degree excellent.
ΚΠ
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Divine or immortall, nectareus.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. viii. 4 Diuinest Creature..How shall I honour thee for this successe? View more context for this quotation
a1635 R. Corbet Poems (1807) 18 Nothing did win more praise..Then did their actors most divine.
1680 J. Crowne Misery Civil-war Prol. For by his feeble Skill 'tis built alone, The Divine Shakespear did not lay one Stone.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 146. ⁋3 The divine Socrates is here represented in a Figure worthy his great Wisdom and Philosophy.
1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion i. 15 That mighty Orb of Song The divine Milton. View more context for this quotation
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 473 That would clearly contradict the divine Homer.
b. Of things: Of surpassing beauty, perfection, excellence, etc.; extraordinarily good or great. Frequently in trivial use.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > surpassing excellence > [adjective]
sunderlyOE
noblec1330
precellentc1384
passantc1385
especialc1386
passinga1387
surmountingc1407
superlative?a1430
precelling?1435
pre-eminenta1460
outrepassed1477
divine1488
pre-excellenta1500
superexcellent1508
transcending1528
pre-ordinate1543
exceeding1552
superexcelling1554
exquisite1578
surpassingc1580
summary1587
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overmatchful1609
termless1609
overtoppinga1615
paramounta1626
overtowering1639
surpassant1654
transcendental1701
superior1711
towery1731
prize1739
supernala1817
tiptopsome1819
tip-topping1826
par excellence1839
superfine1850
towering1894
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective]
faireOE
bremea1000
goodlyOE
goodfulc1275
noblec1300
pricec1300
specialc1325
gentlec1330
fine?c1335
singulara1340
thrivena1350
thriven and throa1350
gaya1375
properc1380
before-passinga1382
daintiful1393
principala1398
gradelya1400
burlyc1400
daintyc1400
thrivingc1400
voundec1400
virtuousc1425
hathelc1440
curiousc1475
singlerc1500
beautiful1502
rare?a1534
gallant1539
eximious1547
jolly1548
egregious?c1550
jellyc1560
goodlike1562
brawc1565
of worth1576
brave?1577
surprising1580
finger-licking1584
admirablea1586
excellinga1586
ambrosial1598
sublimated1603
excellent1604
valiant1604
fabulous1609
pure1609
starryc1610
topgallant1613
lovely1614
soaringa1616
twanging1616
preclarent1623
primea1637
prestantious1638
splendid1644
sterling1647
licking1648
spankinga1666
rattling1690
tearing1693
famous1695
capital1713
yrare1737
pure and —1742
daisy1757
immense1762
elegant1764
super-extra1774
trimming1778
grand1781
gallows1789
budgeree1793
crack1793
dandy1794
first rate1799
smick-smack1802
severe1805
neat1806
swell1810
stamming1814
divine1818
great1818
slap-up1823
slapping1825
high-grade1826
supernacular1828
heavenly1831
jam-up1832
slick1833
rip-roaring1834
boss1836
lummy1838
flash1840
slap1840
tall1840
high-graded1841
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way up1843
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ripsnorting1846
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stunning1849
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shrewd1851
jammy1853
slashing1854
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nifty1865
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rorty1868
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spiffing1872
all wool and a yard wide1882
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jim-dandy1888
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jake1914
keen1914
posh1914
bobby-dazzling1915
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pie on1916
jakeloo1919
snodger1919
whizz-bang1920
wicked1920
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Rolls-Royce1922
whizz-bang1922
wizard1922
barry1923
nummy1923
ripe1923
shrieking1926
crazy1927
righteous1930
marvy1932
cool1933
plenty1933
brahmaa1935
smoking1934
solid1935
mellow1936
groovy1937
tough1937
bottler1938
fantastic1938
readyc1938
ridge1938
super-duper1938
extraordinaire1940
rumpty1940
sharp1940
dodger1941
grouse1941
perfecto1941
pipperoo1945
real gone1946
bosting1947
supersonic1947
whizzo1948
neato1951
peachy-keen1951
ridgey-dite1953
ridgy-didge1953
top1953
whizzing1953
badass1955
wild1955
belting1956
magic1956
bitching1957
swinging1958
ridiculous1959
a treat1959
fab1961
bad-assed1962
uptight1962
diggish1963
cracker1964
marv1964
radical1964
bakgat1965
unreal1965
pearly1966
together1968
safe1970
bad1971
brilliant1971
fabby1971
schmick1972
butt-kicking1973
ripper1973
Tiffany1973
bodacious1976
rad1976
kif1978
awesome1979
death1979
killer1979
fly1980
shiok1980
stonking1980
brill1981
dope1981
to die1982
mint1982
epic1983
kicking1983
fabbo1984
mega1985
ill1986
posho1989
pukka1991
lovely jubbly1992
awesomesauce2001
nang2002
bess2006
amazeballs2009
boasty2009
daebak2009
beaut2013
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 348 Thai..In cartis brocht thar purwiance dewyne.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. xiii. §9 I graunt..that oftentimes a thing is called Diuine or of God, that is notable by any singular excellence.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. ii. 77 Bewtifull tirant, fiend angelicall..Despised substance of diuinest showe. View more context for this quotation
1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 81 Blackness sits On the divinest wits.
1757 A. Cooper Compl. Distiller iii. xlvii. 212 Recipe for a Gallon of Divine Water.
1818 La Belle Assemblée Jan. 40/2 I have had the divinest cornette sent me.
1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 147 The champagne at eighteen dollars really divine.
1870 L. M. Alcott Old-fashioned Girl iii. 51 Your foot is perfectly divine in that boot.
1877 K. Thompson Publ. Pict. Gallery Rembrandt The great master of the Dutch school..preeminent by his wonderful and Divine talents.
1960 R. Daniel Death by Drowning iv. 45 I've just bought a divine swim suit.
6. Connected or dealing with divinity or sacred things; sacred. Obsolete or archaic.
ΚΠ
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxvv All auncient writers, aswell deuine, as prophane.
1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1891) 235 A famouse Doctour of divinitie as appeareth by his devyne works.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. A3v A rare Coniunction, as wel of diuine and sacred literature, as of prophane and humane. View more context for this quotation
1720 I. Watts Divine & Moral Songs Pref. This may sometimes give their thoughts a divine turn, and raise a young meditation.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 147 I give Dante my highest praise when I say of his Divine Comedy that it is..genuinely a Song.]
†7. Forboding, prescient. [a Latinism.] rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > premonition, presentiment > [adjective] > of evil
misboding1607
divine1667
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 845 Yet oft his heart, divine of somthing ill, Misgave him. View more context for this quotation
†B. n.1 Obsolete. [absolute uses of the adjective, or its French original.]
1. Divine service.
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society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [noun]
usec1400
divine1480
actiona1572
liturgy1593
ritual1620
opus Dei1860
li1912
1480 Will of Nicholas Vavesour (Guildhall Libr. MS 9171/6) f. 306 To sing Devyne for my sowle.
1606 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) 327 (Jam.) Twa clerkis to serue in the divines within the College kirk of Creichtoun.
2. Divinity, theology.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > [noun]
divine1303
divinityc1305
theology1362
pantheology1656
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 2890 Seynt austyn þat was a clerk of dyuyne.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 11411 A master of dyuyne.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. Prol. 90 Bisschops Bolde and Bachilers of diuyn.
c1400 Rom. Rose 6490 I wole fillen..My paunche of good mete and wyne, As shulde a maister of dyvyne.
3. Soothsaying; conjecture; divination n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [noun]
divinec1330
diviningc1340
divinationc1374
divinailc1386
sortilegea1387
sortilegya1387
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matesy1543
divinement1579
divinesse1594
predivination1603
observating1652
sortiary1653
fatidicency1693
fatiloquency1693
mantology1774
manticism1861
zoomancy1888
mantic1891
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 282 Merlyn, in his deuyn, of him has said, Þat þre regions, in his bandons, salle be laid.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8092 On þis manere myghte Merlyn Be geten & born, by oure deuyn.
4. Divine nature, divinity.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > state of being or divinity
godhoodeOE
godcundnessOE
drightnessc1175
godcundlaikc1175
Godnessa1225
godhead?c1225
godcundec1275
godcundheada1300
deityc1374
divinityc1374
divine1393
divineness1579
divinesse1594
divination1603
deism1726
superhumanity1792
superhuman1824
suprahumanitya1834
numinousness1932
numinosity1936
ground1945
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 132 Bachus..Accordant unto his divine A prest..He had.

Compounds

C1.
divine-human n. and adj. human and divine.
ΚΠ
1884 Christian World 11 Sept. 688/2 The animal-human is very obstructive to the Divine-human.
1892 B. F. Westcott Gospel of Life 254 [Christianity] is summed up in the facts of a divine-human life.
1893 Tablet 9 Dec. 933 The Divine-human Mediator in heaven.
C2.
divine-looking adj.
ΚΠ
1937 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 8 Oct. (1964) 18 I'm glad Stanley is divine-looking; sorry Andrew is repulsive.
C3.
divine proportion n. literal translation of the term used by L. Pacioli for golden section n. at golden adj. and n. Compounds 2b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > symmetry or regularity > [noun] > golden section
golden section1863
divine proportion1920
the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > [noun] > golden section
golden section1863
divine proportion1920
1509 L. Pacioli (title) De divina proportione.]
1920 R. C. Archibald in J. Hambidge Dynamic Symmetry 152 ‘Divine proportion’ was used by Fra Luca Pacioli in 1509 and possibly earlier by Pier della Francesca.
1951 G. Sarton in Isis 42 47/2 As far as we know now, the expression divine proportion was introduced by Pacioli in 1509 [in his treatise, Divina proportione], and the expression golden section by Martin Ohm in 1835. It is almost certain that they had predecessors [printed predecesors]. Who were they?
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIII. 874/2 The Neo-Impressionists Georges Seurat..and Paul Signac based the linear pattern of many of their compositions upon the principle of this ‘divine proportion’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

divinev.

/dɪˈvʌɪn/
Forms: Also Middle English devine, devyne, dyvine, dyvyne.
Etymology: < French devine-r (12th cent.) to recount, signify, wish, prophesy, < Latin dīvīnāre to foretell, predict, after devin divine: see divine adj. and n.1
I. Transitive senses.
†1.
a. To make out or interpret by supernatural or magical insight (what is hidden, obscure, or unintelligible to ordinary faculties); hence, in later use, to interpret, explain, disclose, make known. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > the paranormal > [verb (transitive)] > divine
divine1362
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > divine [verb (transitive)] > interpret by divination
showa1200
divine1362
society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)]
unwryc825
unhelec1000
to draw forthc1175
unhillc1200
to bring forth?c1225
unsteekc1250
let witc1275
uncovera1300
wraya1300
knowc1300
barea1325
shrivec1374
unwrapc1374
again-covera1382
nakena1382
outc1390
tellc1390
disclosea1393
cough1393
unhidea1400
unclosec1400
unhaspc1400
bewrayc1405
reveal1409
accusea1413
reveil1424
unlocka1425
unrekec1425
disclude?1440
uncurec1440
utter1444
detect1447
break1463
expose1483
divinec1500
revelate1514
to bring (also put) to light1526
decipher1529
rake1547
rip1549
unshadow1550
to lay to sight1563
uppen1565
unlace1567
unvisor?1571
resign1572
uncloak1574
disshroud1577
spill1577
reap1578
unrip1579
scour1585
unharboura1586
unmask1586
uncase1587
descrya1591
unclasp?1592
unrive1592
discover1594
unburden1594
untomb1594
unhusk1596
dismask1598
to open upc1600
untruss1600
divulge1602
unshale1606
unbrace1607
unveil1609
rave1610
disveil1611
unface1611
unsecret1612
unvizard1620
to open up1624
uncurtain1628
unscreen1628
unbare1630
disenvelop1632
unclothe1632
to lay forth1633
unshroud1633
unmuffle1637
midwife1638
dissecret1640
unseal1640
unmantle1643
to fetch out1644
undisguise1655
disvelop1658
decorticate1660
clash1667
exert1692
disinter1711
to up with1715
unbundlea1739
develop1741
disembosom1745
to open out1814
to let out1833
unsack1846
uncrown1849
to bring (out) in (also into) the open1861
unfrock1866
disbosom1868
to blow the lid off1928
flush1950
surface1955
to take or pull the wraps off1964
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. viii. 138 Daniel deuynede þe Dremels of a Kyng.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. i. 217 What this metals by-meneþ Diuine ȝe.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxii. 240 He tauhte..somme to dyuyne and dyuyde, numbres to kenne.
a1400–50 Alexander 1905 Now þou..graithis me trouage, With all þis dignites be-dene þat I diuined haue.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1561 Þat con dele wyth demerlayk, & deuine lettres.
c1500 Blowbols Test. 138 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 98 The cause why I shalle to you devyne.
a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Uuu/1 I can..Divine my mind to you.
b. To discover or indicate by means of the divining rod.Apparently an isolated use.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > instrument for detection > of instrument, etc.: detect [verb (transitive)] > by means of dowsing rod
divine1890
1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 June 6/3 The boy has now been engaged to go to Australia to ‘divine’ the underground water and minerals of its arid and auriferous regions.
2. To make out by sagacity, intuition, or fortunate conjecture (that is, in some other way than by actual information); to conjecture, guess.
ΚΠ
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 288 He koude wel dyuyne That Troilus al nyght for sorwe wook.
c1386 G. Chaucer Shipman's Tale 224 Wyf..litel kanstow deuyne The curious bisynesse that we haue.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 6706 How it strekys kan I noȝt deuyne.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 514/2 He were a wyse man that coulde devyne what they talke of nowe.
1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 44 Nor cou'd I divine the Meaning of it.
1786 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 37 He could not divine the cause of this extraordinary change.
1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 97 In common parlance, what one man is said to learn by experience, a man of extraordinary sagacity is said, without experience, to divine.
1863 M. Oliphant Salem Chapel I. ii. 28 He began to divine faintly..that external circumstances do stand for something.
3. To have supernatural or magical insight into (things to come); to have presentiment of; hence gen. to predict or prophesy by some kind of special inspiration or intuition.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > divine [verb (transitive)]
areadc1000
divinec1374
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 361 (389) But who may al eschewe or al deuyne?
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) viii. 29 Oþer thinges þai pronostic and diuines by þe colours of þa flawmes.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. ix. f. 47 They diuined the destruction of theyr countrey.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. ii. 15 To shun the danger that his soule diuines . View more context for this quotation
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 135 None..could divine To which side Conquest would encline.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 304 Truly it is not easy to divine what that army may become at last. View more context for this quotation
1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect ii. ii. 487 To infer beforehand or divine the characters that we should find.
†4. Of things: To point out, foreshow, prognosticate, portend. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > portend, betoken [verb (transitive)]
betokenc1275
bode1387
prognostica1400
pretend1402
prognosticate?a1425
ossc1450
importc1487
prognostify1495
protendc1554
presage1562
abode1573
boden1573
denounce1581
importune1590
prejudicate1595
foretoken1598
ominate1598
auspicate1604
divine1607
foredeem1612
warranta1616
augur1630
preaugurate1635
prewarna1637
prenote1641
preominate1646
forespeak1667
omen1697
betidea1799
bespeak1851
1607 M. Drayton Legend Cromwel sig. B2v This prodigious signe..some strange newes though euer it diuine, Yet forth them not immediatly it brings.
1657 A. Cokayne Obstinate Lady i. ii. 9 What envyous Star when I was born divin'd This adverse Fate!
1710 J. Swift Sid Hamet A certain Magick Rod,..divines When e'er the Soil has Golden Mines.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 126 All things wait for and divine him.
†5. To think or conceive of, devise, contrive, by special inspiration or extraordinary sagacity. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > contrive, devise, or invent [verb (transitive)]
findeOE
conceive1340
seek1340
brewc1386
divine1393
to find outc1405
to search outc1425
to find up?c1430
forgec1430
upfindc1440
commentc1450
to dream out1533
inventa1538
father1548
spina1575
coin1580
conceit1591
mint1593
spawn1594
cook1599
infantize1619
fabulize1633
notionate1645
to make upc1650
to spin outa1651
to cook up1655
to strike out1735
mother1788
to think up1855
to noodle out1950
gin1980
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xii. 265 Dauid þe doughty..deuynede how Vrye Mighte slilokeste be slayn.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 269 in Poems (1981) 14 All coursis that cukis culd deuyne.
a1586 Ballad against Evil Women in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 392 The lustiast ladie þat nature can devyne.
1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 225 So much force had one God..ouer each others soule, diuining the great and inuiolable friendship that should be betweene him and me.
†6.
a. To render divine; to canonize; to divinize.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > [verb (transitive)] > deify
deifya1340
deificatec1540
canonize1553
divine1591
godize1592
godify1603
divinitize1649
divify1652
divinize1656
divinify1660
theologize1678
transhumanate1848
transhumanize1872
in-God1891
1591 E. Spenser Daphnaïda 214 Living on earth like Angell new divinde.
1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in Complaints 611 Th' Harpe..out of the River was reard And borne above the cloudes to be divin'd.
1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxiv. 79 Leauing these Diuin'd, to Decuman we come..who was crown'd with glorious Martyrdome.
†b. To call or style divine. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes ii. 353 Your nobling and diuining him elswhere.
II. Intransitive senses.
7. To use or practise divination; to obtain insight into what is future or unrevealed by auguries, portents, magical or occult devices; to soothsay.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > divine [verb (intransitive)]
divinec1374
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 1696 (1745) The folk deuyne at waggynge of a stre.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xliv. 5 The coppe..in the which my Lord is wonte to dyuyne.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. lii. 755 Þer bien some þat hauen and [read an] hounde for here kynge and deuynen by his meuynge.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. xliv. 25 Dyuynours that dyuynen by sacrifices offrid to feendis.
1609 Bible (Douay) I. Lev. xix. 26 You shal not divine, nor observe dreames.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 372 They go to some learned Doctor, who Divines by the Alcoran.
1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. vi. 273 Other..People take upon them to make farther..Improvements upon this Doctrine of the Cloven-foot, and treat it as a most significant Instrument of Satan's private Operation,..as Joseph is said to Divine.
1836 E. W. Lane Acct. Manners & Customs Mod. Egyptians II. vii. 109 They [sc. Gipsies] mostly divine by means of a number of shells, with a few pieces of coloured glass, money, &c., intermixed with them.
8. To foretell by divine or superhuman power; to prophesy. archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > prophesy [verb (intransitive)]
witiec950
prophesyc1350
divine1362
forespeaka1400
ossc1400
prophet?c1450
fore-prophesy1581
vaticinate1623
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. viii. 143 As Daniel diuinede hit fel in dede after.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vi. 116 If I were bound to Diuine of this vnity, I wold not Prophesie so. View more context for this quotation
1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 22 We are as lawgivers; we speak for Nature; we prophesy and divine.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid ii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 120 Cassandra of coming sorrow divined.
9.
a. To conjecture (as to the unknown or obscure); to make an inference by conjecture, insight, intuition, or other means than actual information.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > form conjectures, guess [verb (intransitive)]
divine1362
supposea1393
conjecta1425
guessc1535
rove1551
level1580
conjecture1587
to harp at1611
to venture at1623
to make a shot1840
reach1952
the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > conjecture, guess [verb (transitive)]
readOE
ettlec1275
divine1362
areadc1374
conjectc1374
aima1382
imaginec1405
supposec1405
imagine1477
conjecture1530
guessa1535
harpa1616
foreguess1640
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xi. 138 Þe deppore I diuinede þe derkore me þouȝte.
c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 26 Men may deuyne and glosen vp and doun.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. ii. 39 Something from Cipres, as I may diuine . View more context for this quotation
1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. ii. 150 The meanest have a dignity... And hence, as I divine, the startling whirl of incongruous juxtaposition.
†b. with of, on, upon: To make conjectures about or concerning; to augur from. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 409 (458) Lest ony wyght dyuynen or deuyse Wolde of hem two.
c1386 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1657 The paleys ful of peples..Dyvynynge of thise Thebane knyghtes two.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 43/2 The people diuerselye diuininge vppon this dealinge.
a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) v. sig. I4 Whereon diuine you sir?
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 857 Thereof would diuersly diuine euerie man according to his owne fantasie.
1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre i. 29 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian The Romans divining upon it, were confident of the Emperours prevailing in this Warr.
1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 144 At Chess they vie, to captivate the Queen, Divining of their loves.

Derivatives

diˈvined adj. (in quot., made divine).
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > [adjective]
hallowedc900
holyc1000
blessedc1200
blissfula1225
seelya1225
yblessed1297
sacred13..
saint1377
devoutc1380
divinec1380
consecratec1386
dedicatec1386
benedighta1400
happyc1405
sillya1450
sacrate?a1475
sanctificatec1485
sacrificed?1504
sacrea1535
religious1549
vowed1585
anointed1595
devote1597
devoted1597
consecrated1599
sacrosanct1601
sanctimonious1604
sanctified1607
dedicated1609
divined1624
sacrosanctious1629
reverend1631
celebrate1632
divinified1633
sacrosanctified1693
sanctimonial1721
sacramental1851
divinized1852
sacral1882
sanct1890
sanctifiable1894
sacramented1914
hierophanic1927
kramat1947
sacralized1979
1624 Quarles Sion's Sonn. in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1848) 140 The glory of thy divined place No age can injure, nor yet time deface.
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