As applied to deities, the development of meaning has probably been: held in religious regard or veneration, kept reverently sacred from human…

Of or pertaining to God or a god.

With a personal name or unique designation: usually combining other senses, as pre-eminent, admirable… Of God or a god. Cf. sense A. 17c(a).

transferred. of heathen deities, etc. Obsolete.

Divine.

Deifying, making divine; also (less properly), divine, godlike.

Chiefly poetic. Of or relating to heaven, God, or the gods; heavenly, celestial.

= deific, adj.

Of or relating to God; coming from God; divine; spiritual. Now somewhat archaic.

Of or relating to a numen; revealing or indicating the presence of a divinity; divine, spiritual. Also as n.

Divine. (In quot. 1927 as noun.)

Conformable to the character or nature of God; godlike, divine, holy.

Pertaining to God, divine.

rarely of a deity: Venerable, holy.

Used in the sense: Of or pertaining to a god or gods; divine. rare.