Word Meanings - DIVINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, 1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. "The immensity of the divine nature." Paley. 2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. "Divine protection." Bacon.

Additional info about word: DIVINE

divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, 1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. "The immensity of the divine nature." Paley. 2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. "Divine protection." Bacon. 3. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship. 4. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods. "The divine Apollo said." Shak. 5. Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir J. Davies. "The divine Desdemona." Shak. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. Prov. xvi. 10. But not to one in this benighted age Is that diviner inspiration given. Gray. 6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave him. Milton. 7. Relating to divinity or theology. Church history and other divine learning. South. Syn. -- Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; preëminent.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIVINE)

• Angelic
• Pure
• ethereal
• spiritual
• lovely
• heavenly
• seraphic
• rapturous
• divine
• Celestial
• Heavenly
• atmospheric
• supernal
• angelic
• radiant
• eternal
• immortal
• godlike
• elysian
• Clergyman
• Pastor
• parson
• preacher
• presbyter
• minister
• elder
• deacon
• bishop
• dominie
• rector
• prelate
• priest
• monk
• friar
• vicar
• curate
• Foresee
• Predict
• anticipate
• foretell
• forecast
• foreknow
• forebode
• Guess
• Conjecture
• surmise
• suppose
• suspect
• fancy
• imagine

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DIVINE)

• Computation
• calculation
• inference
• reckoning
• proof
• deduction
• Lead
• rule
• command
• exact

Related words: (words related to DIVINE)

• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• PRESBYTERY
  A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction
• RECKON
  reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
• ANGELIC; ANGELICAL
  Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel; heavenly; divine. "Angelic harps." Thomson."Angelical actions." Hooker. The union of womanly tenderness and angelic patience. Macaulay.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• RECKONER
  One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
• RADIANT ENGINE
  A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• RECTOR
  A clergyman in charge of a parish. 3. The head master of a public school. 4. The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at
• ETERNALIST
  One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity. T. Burnet.
• BISHOPDOM
  Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton.
• CELESTIAL
  1. Belonging to the aërial regions, or visible heavens. "The twelve celestial signs." Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine. "Celestial spirits." "Celestial light," Milton. Celestial city, heaven; the heavenly
• ELDERLY
  Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
• RECTORSHIP
  1. Government; guidance. "The rectorship of judgment." Shak. 2. The office or rank of a rector; rectorate.
• FOREKNOWER
  One who foreknows.
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• ATMOSPHERICALLY
  In relation to the atmosphere.
• DEACONHOOD
  The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship.
• FORESEE
  1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3. 2. To provide. Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon.
• FOREGUESS
  To conjecture.
• SUPERCELESTIAL
  1. Situated above the firmament, or great vault of heaven. Waterland. 2. Higher than celestial; superangelic.
• UNVICAR
  To deprive of the position or office a vicar. Strype.
• ACCURATENESS
  The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
• PRORECTORATE
  The office of prorector.
• MISCOMPUTATION
  Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.