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Divine

Definition: Divine

Divine

Adjective

1. Emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black1 or white...satanic or godlyt"-Saturday Rev.

2. Resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a providential visitation".

3. 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.

4. Devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity; "divine worship"; "divine liturgy".

5. 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.

6. Of such surpassing excellence as to suggest divine inspiration; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance".

Noun

1. The Judeo-Christian God.

2. A clergyman or other person in religious orders.

Verb

1. Perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers.

2. Search by divining, as if with a rod, of underground water or metals.

3. Discover intuitively.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "divine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)


Specialty Definition: Divine

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Divine The divine right of kings. The notion that kings reign by divine right, quite independent of the people's will. This notion arose from the Old Testament Scriptures, where kings are called "God's anointed," because they were God's vicars on earth, when the Jews changed their theocracy for a monarchy.
"The right divine of kings to govern wrong."
Pope.
Divine (The). Ferdinand de Herrera, a Spanish poet (1516-1595).
Raphael, the painter, il Divino (1483-1520).
Luis Morales, Spanish painter, el Divino (1509-1586). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Specialty Definition: Divine

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

This article deals with the concept of the divine in a religious context. However, Divine is also the stage name of the late transvestite celebrity born Harris Glen Milstead.

The concept of the divine is a key ingredient in all religious systems, and it is frequently used to refer to the monotheistic God that is part of most of the world's great religions as well as the various deities that are part of polytheistic religions such as Hinduism.

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In order to form a more systematic idea of God, and as far as possible, to unfold the implications of the truth, God is All-Perfect, this infinite Perfection is viewed, successively, under various aspects, each of which is treated as a separate perfection and characteristic inherent to the Divine Substance, or Essence. A certain group of these, of paramount import, is called the Divine Attributes.

I. KNOWLEDGE OF GOD MEDIATE AND SYNTHETIC

Our natural knowledge of God is acquired by discursive reasoning upon the data of sense by introspection, "For the invisible things of Him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made; His eternal power also, and Divinity" (St. Paul, Romans, i, 20). Created things, by the properties and activities of their natures, manifest, as in a glass, darkly, the powers and perfections of the creator. But these refracted images of Him in finite things cannot furnish grounds for any adequate idea of the Infinite Being. Hence, in constructing a synthetic idea of God, before one can apply to the Divinity any concept or term expressing a perfection found in created being, it must be subjected to rigorous correction. The profound disparity between the Divine perfection and the intimations of it presented in the world-copy may be broadly laid down under two heads:

Number: The perfections of creatures are innumerable, the Divine Perfection is one. Diversity: Created perfections differ endlessly in kind and degree; the Divine perfection is uniform, simple. It is not a totality of various perfections; absolutely simple, the Divine perfection answers to every idea of actual or conceivable perfection, without being determined to the particular mode of any. Hence, when any attribute expressing modes characteristic of the world of being that falls within the range of our experience is applied to God its signification ceases to be identical with that which it has in every other case. Yet it retains a real meaning in virtue of the ratio which exists between the finite being and its Infinite analogue. In philosophical phrase, the use of terms is called analogical predication, in contra-distinction to univocal, in which a word is predicated of two or more subjects in precisely the same sense. (See ANALOGY.)

II. SOURCE OF OUR NATURAL KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

To correct, as far as possible, the inadequate character of the concepts through which we must formulate our idea of God, the first step is to distinguish created perfection into two kinds, viz., mixed perfections and pure perfections. A pure perfection is one whose exact concept does not include any note formally expressive of defect or limitation; the content of the idea is entirely positive. The idea of a mixed perfection, on the contrary, formally or directly connotes, along with what is positive in the perfection, some privation or deficiency. Examples of the former are power, truthfulness, will; as an instance of the latter, materiality may be offered. For, though the reality that belongs to matter is, of course, a participatlon of existence and activity, yet the concept of it connotes the imperfections of that particular kind of existence which is composite and subject to disintegration. Again, personality is a pure perfection; for, as Catholic philosophy teaches, though the finite character of human personality comes into play in the awakening of self-consciousness, yet limitatlon is not an essential constituent of personality. All terms that stand for pure perfections are predicated analogically of God, and are designated attributes in the wide sense of the word. When terms which signify mixed perfections are predicated of God, the analogy becomes so faint that the locution is a mere metaphor.

III. INDUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT OF ATTRIBUTES

The elaboration of the idea of God is carried out along three converging lines.

(1) The positive way of causality

In virtue of the principle that whatever excellence is contained in an effect is represented in the efficiency of the cause, reason affirms that every positive perfection of created being has its transcendental analogue in the first cause. Hence, from the existence of an intelligent being, man, in the cosmos, we rightly infer that God is intelligent, that is to say, His infinite perfection is superabundantly adequate to all the operations of intellect.

(2) The negative way

If we fix our attention precisely on the Infinity of God, then, focusing the negation not upon the positive content of any created perfection but upon the fact that, because it is finite it is determined in kind and limited in degree, we may affirm that it is not found in God. We may say, e.g., that He is not intelligent. The meaning of the statement is not that God lacks intelligence but that in Him there is no intelligence exactly as we know it. Again, since there is no imperfection in God, every concept of defect, privation, and limitation must be negated of God. Many negative names, it is true, are applied to God; as when, for instance, He is said to be immutable, uncaused, infinite. It should, however, be carefully observed that some attributes, which, from the etymological point of view are negative, convey, nevertheless, a positive meaning. Failure to perceive this obvious truth has been responsible for much empty dogmatism on the impossibility of forming any concept of the Infinite. The basic note in the idea of the Infinite is existence, actuality, perfection; the negative note is subordinate. Furthermore, since the force of the latter note is to deny any and all limitations to the actuality represented by the former, its real import is positive, like the cancellation of a minus sign in an algebraic formula; or, it discharges the function of an exponent and raises actuality to the nth power.

(3) Way of eminence

The concept of a perfection derived from created things and freed of all defects, is, in its application to God, expanded without limit. God not only possesses every excellence discoverable in creation, but He also possesses it infinitely. To emphasize the transcendence of the Divine perfection, in some cases an abstract noun is substituted for the corresponding adjective; as, God is Intelligence; or, again, some word of intensive, or exclusive, force is joined to the attribute; as, God alone is good, God is goodness itself, God is all-powerful, or supremely powerful.

IV. DEDUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT

Having established the existence of God from metaphysical, physical, and moral arguments, the theologian selects some one of the attributes which these proofs authorize him to predicate of the Divinity and, by unfolding its implications, reaches a number of other attributes. For instance, if God is Pure Actuality, that is, free from all static potency, it follows that, since change implies a transition from an antecedent potential condition to a subsequent condition in which the potentiality is realized, God is immutable. Here we reach the point where the term Attribute is employed in its strict sense.

V. ESSENCE AND ATTRIBUTES

Transcendentally one, absolutely free from composition, the Divine Being is not, and may not be conceived as, a fundamental substrate in which qualities or any other modal indeterminations inhere. The reality to the various attributes are ascribed is one and indivisible.

"Quae justitia," says St. Augustine, "ipsa bonitas; quae bonitas, ipsa beatitudo."

In this respect, the relation of the attributes to the Divine nature might be illustrated by the various reflections of one and the same object from a concave, a convex, and a plane mirror. Nevertheless, to systematize the idea of God, and to draw out the rich content of the knowledge resulting from the proofs of God's existence, some primary attribute may he chosen is representing one aspect of the Divine perfection from which the others may be rigorously deduced. Then arises a logical scheme in which the derivative attributes, or perfections stand towards one another in a relation somewhat similar to that of the essence and the various properties and qualities in a material substance. In this arrangement the primary perfection is termed the metaphysical essence, the others are called attributes. The essence, too, may be regarded as that characteristic which, above all others, distinguishes the Deity from everything else. Upon the question, which attribute is to be considered primary, opinions differ. Many eminent theologians favour the conception of pure actuality (Actus Purus), from which simplicity and infinity are directly deduced. Most modern authors fix on aseity (Aseitas; a = "from" se = "himself"), or self-existence; for the reason that, while all other existences are derived from, and depend on, God, He possesses in Himself, absolutely and independently, the entire reason of His uncaused infinite Being. In this, the most profound and cornprehensive distinction between the Divinity and everything else, all other distinctions are implicitly expressed. Whether, and in what way, the distinctions between the attributes and the metaphysical essence, and among the attributes themselves have an ontological basis in the Divine nature itself was subject which divided Nominalists and Realists, Thomists and Scotists, in the age of Scholasticism (cf. Vacant, Dict. de théol. cathol., I, 2230-34).

VI. DIVISION OF ATTRIBUTES

Taking as the basis of classification the ways by which the attributes are developed, they are divided into positive and negative. Among the negative attributes are simplicity, infinity, immutability. The chief positive attributes are unity, truth, goodness, beauty, omnipotence omnipresence, intellect and will, personality. Some authors divide them into incommunicable and communicable. The former class comprises those which belong to God alone (e.g., all-wise, self-existent, omnipotent) to the latter belong those which are predicable, analogically, of God and creatures as good, just, intelligent. Again, the divine nature considered either as static or as the source activity; hence another division into quiescent and active. Finally, some perfections involve a relation to things distinct from God, while others do not; and from this standpoint theologians divide the attributes into absolute and relative. The various classifications adopted by modern Protestant theologians are due partly to the results of philosophical speculation and partly to new conceptions of the nature of religion. Schleiermacher, e.g., derives the attributes of God from our threefold consciousness of absolute dependence, of sin, and of grace. Others, with Lipsius, distinguish the metaphysical attributes from the psychological and the ethical. A simpler division groups omnipotence, omnipresence, eternity, omniscience, and unity as the metaphysical predicates, justice and goodness as the moral attributes. The fundamental attribute is, according to Ritschl, love; according to Professor Royce, omniscience. The main difficulty with these writers centres about the idea of God as a personaI being.

VII. REVELATION

The supernatural knowledge of God given in revelation is apprehended through the medium of conceptions that belong to natural knowledge. Therefore the same principles of attribution that govern the one hold good also for the other.

VIII. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT

In the fourth century Aetius and Eunomius maintained that, because the Divine nature is simple, excluding all composition or multiplicity, the various terms and names applied to God are to be considered synonymous. Otherwise they would erroneously imply composition in God. This opinion was combated by St. Cyril of Alexandria, St. Basil, and St. Gregory of Nyssa (In Eunom., P. G., XLV). The principle of attribution received more precise statement at the hands of St. Augustine, in his investigation of the conditions of intellectual knowledge (De Genesi ad Litteram, IV, 32). In the ninth century, John Scotus Erigena, who was largely influenced by Neo-Platonism, transmitted through the works of the Pseudo-Dionysius, contributed to bring into clearer relief the analogical character of predication (De Divinâ Naturâ, Lib. I). The Nominalists revived the views of Eunomius, and the opposition of the Realists was carried to the other extreme by Gilbert de la Porrée, who maintained a real, ontological distinction between the Divine Essence and the attributes. His opinion was condemned by the Council of Reims (1148). St. Thomas definitively expressed the doctrine which, after some controversies between Scotists and Thomists upon minor points and subtleties, and with some divergence of opinion upon unimportant details, is now the common teaching of Catholic theologians and philosophers. It may be summarized as follows: The idea of God is derived from our knowledge of finite beings. When a term is predicated of the finite and of the Infinite, it is used, not in a univocal, but in analogical sense. The Divine Perfection, one and invisible, is, in its infinity, the transcendental analogue of all actual and possible finite perfections. By means of an accumulation of analogous predicates methodically co-ordinated, we endeavour to form an approximate conception of the Deity who, because He is Infinite, cannot be comprehended by finite intelligence. Modern philosophy presents a remarkable gradation, from Pantheism, which finds God in everything, to Agnosticism, which declares that He is beyond the reach of knowledge. Spinoza conceives God as "a substance consisting of infinite attributes each of which expresses eternal and infinite essence". The two attributes manifested to us are thought and extension. At the other extreme we find Agnostics of the school of Herbert Spencer (see AGNOSTICISM) and some followers of Hegel, who hold that the nature of God, or, to use their favourite term, "the Absolute" is utterly unknowable, and its existence not determined to any mode; therefore, to predicate of it various attributes, expressive of determinations, is idle and misleading. Between the finite and the Infinite there is no common ground of predication, hence; words which signify finite perfections can have no real meaning when predicated of God; they become mere empty symbols. All theological attempts to elaborate an idea of God are vain, and result in complete absurdity when they conceive God after man's image and likeness (see ANTHROPOMORPHISM), and circumscribe the Infinite in terms borrowed from human psychology. Criticism of this kind indicates that its authors have never taken the trouble to understand the nature of analogical predication, or to consider fairly the rigorous logical process of refining to which terms are subjected before being predicated of God. It often happens too, that writers, after indulging liberally in eloquent denunciation of theological anthropomorphism proceed, on the next page, to apply to the Infinite, presumably in a strictly univocal sense, terms such as "energy", "force", and "law", which are no less anthropomorphic, in an ultimate analysis, than "will" and "intelligence". The position of the Catholic Church declared in the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), is again clearly stated in the following pronouncement of the Vatican Council:

The Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church believes and professes that there is one living and true God, Creator and Lord of heaven and earth, omnipotent, eternal, immense, incomprehensible, infinite in intellect and will and in all perfection Who, being One, singular, absolutely simple and unchangeable spiritual substance, is to be regarded as distinct really and in essence from the world most blessed in and from Himself, and unspeakably elevated above all things that exist, or can be conceived, except Himself.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Divine."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Divine

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

DIVINE

EnglishDeployment of Interpersonal Videoconferencing Systems on IBC NetworksComputing

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Divine

Synonyms: elysian (adj), godlike (adj), godly (adj), inspired (adj), providential (adj), churchman (n), cleric (n), ecclesiastic (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Divine

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Authority

Divine right, dynastic rights, authoritativeness; absoluteness, absolutism; despotism; jus nocendi; jus divinum.

Clergy

Clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter, hierophant, pastor, shepherd, minister; father, father in Christ; padre, abbe, cure; patriarch; reverend; black coat; confessor.

Deity

Adjective: jure divino, by divine right.

Adjective: almighty, holy, hallowed, sacred, divine, heavenly, celestial; sacrosanct; all-knowing, all-seeing, all-wise; omniscient.

Creation, preservation, divine government; Theocracy, Thearchy; providence; ways of Providence, dealings of Providence, dispensations of Providence, visitations of Providence.

Dueness

Adverb: duly, ex officio, de jure; by right, by divine right; jure divino, Dei gratia, in the name of.

Friend

Phrase: amici probantur rebus adversis; ohne bruder kann man leben nicht ohne Freund; " best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness "; conocidos muchos amigos pocos; " friend more divine than all divinities "; vida sin amigo muerte sin testigo.

Government

Phrase: "a dog's obeyed in office"; cada uno tiene su alguazil; le Roi le veut; regibus esse manus en nescio longas; regnant populi; "the demigod Authority "; "the right divine of kings to govern wrong"; "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown".

Orthodoxy

Adjective: orthodox, sound, strick, faithful, catholic, schismless, Christian, evangelical, scriptural, divine, monotheistic; true.

Perfection

Best; (good); model, standard; inimitable, unparagoned, unparalleled; (supreme); superhuman, divine; beyond all praise; (approbation); sans peur et sans reproche.

Prediction

Verb: predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate, tell fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity; advise; forewarn.

Seclusion Exclusion

Among them but not of them ; " and homeless near a thousand homes I stood "; far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife; " makes a solitude and calls it peace "; magna civitas magna solitudo; " never less alone than when alone "; " O sacred solitude! divine retreat! ".

Supposition

Verb: suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine; theorize; presume, presurmise, presuppose; assume, fancy, wis, take it; give a guess, speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted; imagine.

Theology

Theologue, theologian; scholastic, divine, schoolman, canonist, theologist; the Fathers.

Worship

Divine service, office, duty; exercises; morning prayer; mass, matins, evensong, vespers; undernsong, tierce; holyday; (rites).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Divine

Specialty definitions using "divine": Achan, Al Kader ♦ Baca, Bell, Book, and Candle, Black Genevan ♦ Cæ'sarism, Callipolis, Cam and Isis, Causes, Cecilia, Church of the SubGenius, Coronation, Cressell'e ♦ Dances, Devils, Divine Doctor, Divine Pagan, Divine Plant, Divine Speaker, Dog, Door-posts, DOWIE ♦ Each other ♦ Ferracute, FLY, FRYING ♦ Gnostics ♦ Hemus ♦ IMBECILITY ♦ Jedidiah, Jus Divinum ♦ KORAN ♦ Latitudinarians, looking ♦ Maccabees, Books of the, maiden, Monophysites ♦ Nestorians ♦ Omitted Relatives, One another ♦ Pitri, Platonic Puritan ♦ Renault of Montauban, Restorationists, revelation, right, River of God ♦ Sabbath, SACHEVEREL, sacred, Salmoneus, Samaritan Pentateuch, Seven Spirits of God, soul, Spur Money, Sword-makers ♦ Tree of the knowledge of good and evil ♦ U'niversity. (references)
Etymologies containing "divine": Aladinist ♦ Divination, Divinify, Divinize ♦ genius ♦ Nefarious ♦ superstition. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Divine" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Italian (divine).

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Modern Usage: Divine

DomainUsage

Screenplays

The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering silmite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption. (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; writing credit: Pen Densham and John Watson.)

I am so damn dumb, it would take ten acts of divine providence to raise me to the sublime heights of blissful ignorance, sir! (Dark Angel; writing credit: Ben Aaronovitch; Mark Ezra)

Divine decadence darling! (Cabaret; writing credit: Christopher Isherwood; John Van Druten)

Thou art a subject of the divine, created in the image of man, by the masses, for the masses. (THX 1138; writing credit: George Lucas;)

Lyrics

A feeling divine swept over me there (The Village Of St. Bernadette; performing artist: Andy Williams; writing credit: Eula Parker)

All I need is the rhythm divine (Rhythm Divine; performing artist: Enrique Iglesias)

Once I had a love and it was divine ("Heart of Glass"; performing artist: Blondie)

My divine lady (Lady; performing artist: D'Angelo)

You make me feel so divine (I Belong To You; performing artist: Lenny Kravitz)

Clever

Grace is the divine ability to cope with every circumstance. (references; author: unknown)

Human things must be known to be loved, but Divine things must be loved to be known. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Divine Damnation (1967)

The Divine Spark (1935)

Divine (1935)

The Divine Lady (1929)

La Divine croisière (1929)

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Commercial Usage: Divine

DomainTitle

References

  • Divine, Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

  • Divine Antidote (reference)

  • The Divine and the Demonic: Supernatural Affliction and its Treatment in North India (reference)

  • Abandonment to Divine Providence (reference)

  • Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential (reference)

  • The Divine Life of the Most Holy Virgin: Being an Abridgement of the Mystical City of God (reference)

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Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Full Screen) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

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Image Slideshow: Divine

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Divine

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Caption: Wilber B. Huston's Snapshots of His Trip to the 1929 Edison Scholarship Contest, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine under Construction; New York, NY; July-aug., 1929; {13.110/13} (jpg).

Not A Divine Curse Not By Birth : Leprosy Is Caused Only By Germs. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Ship's officers and crew at divine services, while she was off Charleston, South Carolina, during the Civil War. Photographed by the Matthew Brady organization. Credit: NAVY.

Lithograph by Middleton, Strobridge & Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1864, after a drawing by Chas. A. Fisher. Inscription below the image reads: "United States Steamer Champion. Mississippi Squadron. Acting Ensign Thomas Divins, Commanding Nov. 1864". Thomas "Divins" is a misprint for Thomas Divine. Credit: NAVY.

He danced, he sang: hail spring divine! : ethereal spring h'm -- wine? -pine -shine?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. Texas, divine service. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chaplain Chapman of the 169th N.Y. performing divine service at Gen. W.F. Smith's Head Quarters in front of Petersburg, July 3rd. Credit: Library of Congress.

Consecration of the choir and the two chapels of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Credit: Library of Congress.

Atlanta campaign. Army of the Cumberland. Divine service by Rev. P.P. Cooney, C.S.C. Chaplain Gen. of Ind. Troops in the field. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Sounds Captioned with "Divine".

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Brewing; brew; foreboding; forebode; clock; chime; augur; forecast; forerun; foreshow; foretell; harbinger; herald; indicate; portend; predict; presage; signal; signify; betoken; bode; divine;; foresee; foreshadow; foretell; foretoken; forewarn; indicate.
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Familiar Quotations: Divine

AuthorQuotation

Arthur Rimbaud

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Author Unknown

Humility is the ladder to divine understanding.

Benjamin Disraeli

Genius, when young, is divine.

Confucius

Study the past if you would divine the future.

Henry Ward Beecher

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Immanuel Kant

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Mikhail A. Bakunin

Divine morality is the absolute negation of human morality.

Socrates

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

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Historic Usage: Divine

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

This is so evident, that Barclay himself, that great assertor of the power and sacredness of kings, is forced to confess, That it is lawful for the people, in some cases, to resist their king; and that too in a chapter, wherein he pretends to shew, that the divine law shuts up the people from all manner of rebellion. (Second Treatise of Government)

US Declaration of Independence

1776

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. (reference)

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Use in Literature: Divine

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

For some cause, which I could not at the moment divine, Arthur was unusually grave and silent during our walk home.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

It is wrong to be so absorbed in the divine law as not to perceive the human law.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

It is a fire which proceeds directly from the ire of God, working not of its own activity but as an instrument of divine vengeance.

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman, Of these supposed crimes to give me leave By circumstance but to acquit myself.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

It is human, it is divine, carrion.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Divine

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

So great was the importance that travelers and guests received fine hospitality that Greeks believed that Jupiter himself, disguised as a traveler, could call at their homes to test them. Today, tourism inspectors are less divine, but the importance of granting excellence in service is equally highly valued. (references)

Civil Liberties

South Africa

The event promoted unifying the city and addressing unacceptable levels of crime, violence, poverty, bombings, gangsterism, and drug trafficking with celebration and prayer for divine intervention through the power of gospel. (references)

Cameroon

This definition includes "any group of natural persons or corporate bodies whose vocation is divine worship" or "any group of persons living in community in accordance with a religious doctrine." The denomination then submits a file to the Minister of Territorial Administration. (references)

Minorities

Central African Republic

When serious social or political conflicts have arisen, simultaneous prayer ceremonies have been held in churches, temples, and mosques to ask for divine assistance. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival -- an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.

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Spoken Usage: Divine

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Kevin Kline

We used the Emma Willard School for Girls up in Troy, New York for the exteriors and the interiors were actually shot here in New York City up at Union Seminary and a bit at St. John the Divine. We just had to find big kind of neo-gothic architecture.

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Speeches: Divine

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James Madison

1809-1817Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess and to observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837Never in any former period of our history have we had greater reason than we now have to be thankful to Divine Providence for the blessings of health and general prosperity.

Martin van Buren

1837-1841Beyond that I only look to the gracious protection of the Divine Being whose strengthening support I humbly solicit, and whom I fervently pray to look down upon us all.

Zachary Taylor

1849-1850In conclusion I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.

James Buchanan

1857-1861I shall now proceed to take the oath prescribed by the Constitution, whilst humbly invoking the blessing of Divine Providence on this great people.

Calvin Coolidge

1923-1929The higher state to which she seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin.

Dwight Eisenhower

1953-1961Rather this change expresses a purpose of strengthening our dedication and devotion to the precepts of our founding documents, a conscious renewal of faith in our country and in the watchfulness of a Divine Providence.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Our nation could not have been conceived without divine help.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Divine

"Divine" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.63% of the time. "Divine" is used about 1,279 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)95.63%1,2236,379
Lexical Verb (infinitive)3.28%4252,864
Noun (singular)0.63%8124,375
Lexical Verb (base form)0.47%6143,867
                    Total100.00%1,279N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Divine

The following table summarizes the usage of "divine" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons		Rank in USA
DivineLast name1,00010,641
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Divine

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "divine".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
DivyaFemaleIndian

To be divine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expression: Divine

Expressions using "divine": by divine right ♦ divine dispensation ♦ Divine Healing from Japan ♦ divine law ♦ divine light ♦ divine messenger ♦ divine Office ♦ divine presence ♦ divine retribution ♦ divine revelation ♦ Divine right ♦ Divine right of kings ♦ divine service ♦ John the Divine ♦ order for divine service ♦ Reimprinting with Divine Intervention ♦ the divine wisdom. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "divine": divine-right.

Ending with "divine": semi-divine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Divine

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

divine comedy

602

wendy divine

36

divine

539

divine divinity patch

35

divine divinity

496

divine wicked

35

divine secret of the ya ya sisterhood

169

dantes divine comedy

34

cheat divine divinity

135

divine revelation of hell

34

divine divinity through walk

121

st john the divine

33

divine mercy

101

divine wind

33

divine design

91

cathedral of st john the divine

32

divine intervention

90

command divine theory

32

divine brown

82

divine father

31

divine proportion

77

institute of divine metaphysical research

30

divine inc

52

comedy dante divine

26

divine mercy chaplet

47

by divine right

25

divine foot

43

divine office

25

divine lately lyrics

42

divine lyrics

24

divine inspiration

41

maya divine

23

divine divinity trainer

40

divine secret of the yaya sisterhood

23

divine healing

38

club divine

23

the divine nine

38

divine vision

23

ayu divine

36

bar divine

21
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Divine

Language Translations for "divine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

parashikoj (adumbrate, anticipate, contemplate, dope, envision, forecast, foresee, foretaste, look forward to, predict, previse, prognosticate, time, visualize), hyjnor (celestial, empyreal, godlike, heavenly, supernal), i mrekullueshëm (dreamy, elegant, excellent, fabulous, goluptious, goodly, gorgeous, heavenly, killing, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, nailing, nifty, peachy, prodigious, rare, ravishing, remarkable, slapping, spanking, striking, superior, transcendent, unusual, wonderful, wondrous), i perëndishëm, i shenjtë (consecrated, heavenly, holy, sacramental, sacred, sacrosanct, Saint, sainted, saintlike, saintly), i shkëlqyer (admirable, bright, brilliant, capital, choice, copybook, corking, crack, cracking, Dandy, excellent, fabulous, famous, fantastic, fantastical, fine, first rate, flamboyant, gaudy, glazy, glorious, glossy, gorgeous, great, heavenly, immense, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, powerful, prize, pukka, rare, ripping, royal, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, whizzbang, wicked), gjej (ascertain, assure, be, be present, catch, come across, dig up, discover, distil, distill, fetch, figure out, find, find out, get, guess, hit, hunt down, hunt out, hunt up, look out, meet with, obtain, pick out, procure, root out, scare up, search out, trace), marr me mend (guess, perceive, picture, presume, presuppose, surmise), zbuloj (bare, belie, bewray, blurt out, bring out, bring to light, catch, contrive, descry, detect, develop, disclose, discover, disinter, distil, distill, divulge, enucleate, explore, ferret, ferret about, ferret out, find, find out, hit, hunt down, invent, look out, open, proclaim, puzzle out, rat, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, reveal, rummage, trace, uncloak, uncover, uncurtain, unearth, unlock, unveil), prej perëndie, prift (beneficiary, camister, churchman, jack-priest, josser, presbyter, priest), profetizoj (augur, foretell, prophesy, soothsay), qiellor (celestial, empyreal, empyrean, heavenly, supernal), shumë i këndshëm (enchanting), teolog (theologian), i zotit (dominical, natural). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مقدس (blessed, consecrating, hallowing, heavenly, holy, sacramental, sacred, sacrist, sanctifying), ‏حزر (conjectural, estimate, inform, notify, precaution), ‏تكهن (augur, auspice, forecast, foretell, omen, predict, prediction, prognostic, prognosticate, prognostication, surmise, tip), ‏تنبأ (bode, forebode, foresee, foretell, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, slate), ‏سماوي (angelic, celestial, empyreal, heavenly, unearthly), ‏عالم باللاهوت, ‏الهي, ‏رائي, ‏ديني (religious, sacred). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

гадая (guess, read, soothsay), божествен (celestial, glorious, godlike, heavenly, olympian, seraphic, supernal), пророкувам (foretell, predict, vaticinate), предусещам (forebode, foretell, previse), предчувствувам (anticipate, feel, forebode, presage, prevision, sense), предвиждам (calculate, envisage, forecast, foresee, intend, plan, previse, prevision, provide, provide for, second-guess, see beyond), предполагам (assume, believe, conjecture, expect, guess, imagine, implicate, imply, postulate, presume, presuppose, reckon, suppose, suspect, take, take a notion, think, think for, ween). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

神聖 (hallow, holy, sacred), 神 (Deities, Deity, GOD, godly). (various references)

   

Czech

  

duchovní (clergyman, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, intellectual, parson, sacred, spiritual), vìštit (presage, prophesy, soothsay, tell fortunes, vaticinate), předvídat (anticipate, foresee, smell, think ahead), najít proutkem, nádherný (fantastic, glorious, gorgeous, noble, opulent, pompous, princely, regal, rich, splendid, superb), hádat (guess), božský (heavenly), andìlský (angelic, cherubic, seraphic). (various references)

   

Danish

  

guddommelig. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

goddelýk. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

dia. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

یزدانی , کشیش (Cassock, Clergyman, Cleric, Ecclesiastic, Minister, Priest, Provost), غیب گوءی کردن , خداءی (Godhead, Godly, Heavenly, Numen), الهی (Celestial), استنباطکردن (Construe, Deduce, Educe, Induct, Infer). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

jumalallinen. (various references)

   

French

  

divin. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

godlik. (various references)

   

German

  

göttlich (godlike). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κληρικόσ (churchman, clergyman, cleric, clerical, dominie, ecclesiastic), θεϊκόσ (godlike), θεολόγοσ (theologian, theologist), θείοσ (celestial, sublime, supernal, uncle). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לקסום (bewitch, captivate, cast a spell on, charm, enchant, fascinate), ל חש (augur, conjecture, estimate, figure out, foretell, guess, predict, surmise), ל בא (bode, foretell, predict, presage, prophesy), אל"י (godlike), פלא (entrancing, fabulous, gorgeous, lovely, marvellous, splendid, stupendous, superb, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

isteni (aces, divinity, divvy, godlike, providence, to be all aces). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

langit (heaven, sky), ilahi (godly), bersifat tuhan. (various references)

   

Italian

  

divino (celestial, godlike, heavenly). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

神神しい (solemn, sublime), 冥々 (dark, invisible), 冥冥 (dark, invisible), 天来 (heaven sent, heavenly, inspired). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"う"うしい (solemn, sublime), めいめい (christening, dark, each, individual, invisible, naming), て"らい (beautiful poetry, heaven sent, heavenly, inspired, sound of wind, thunder). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(GOD, sour). (various references)

   

Manx

  

niauoil (heavenly), mie er bashtal (excellent, first class, super, superb), jeeoilagh (theologian), jeeoil (godlike, godly), jannoo magh (content, deduce, define, determine, make out, purvey, purveyance, satisfy, seek out, supply, think out, work out, work out as position), jannoo faaishnys (bode), flaunyssagh (beatific, blissful, celestial, heavenly, inhabitant of heaven, paradisiac, Utopian), agglishagh (canonical, churchman, cleric, clerical, ecclesiastic). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

guddommelig (godlike). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

dibino (holy, sacred). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ivineday

   

Portuguese

  

divino (celestial, godlike, heavenly, supernal). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

dumnezeiesc (godlike, heavenly, wonderful), divin (celestial, godlike), teolog (theologian), proroci (bode, predict), prevesti (augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forebode, forerun, foreshadow, foreshow, foretell, foretoken, harbinger, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, promise, threaten), presimţi (feel, scent, sense, smell), preot (Canon, chaplain, clergyman, cleric, curate, devil-dodger, father, incumbent, minister, padre, parson, pastor, pope, preacher, prelate, presbyter, priest, rector, Reverend, rook, vicar), ghici (conjecture, discover, feel, foresee, foretell, guess, Rede, surmise), ceresc (celestial, heavenly, sublime). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

божественный (celestial, godlike, godly, heavenly), предсказывать (augur, forecast, foretell, predict, prognosticate, prophesy, soothsay, vaticinate). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

targair (foretell). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

duhovno lice, divan (admirable, adorable, davenport, delightful, delightsome, divan, divan bed, dreamy, gorgeous, great, groovy, high-toned, jolly, lovely, magnificent, neat, nifty, scrumptious, sofa, splendid, stunning, superb, terrific), vračati (fortell, practice sorcery, put a charm on), proreći (foretoken, predict, prophesy), gatati (tell fortunes), bogoslov, božanstven (heavenly), božanski (godlike, supernal). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

divino (godlike). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gudomlig (celestial, heavenly, magnificent, superb), spå (augur, foretell, tell a person his fortune). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tanrı'ya adanmış, tanrısal (celestial, godlike, heavenly, holy, olympian, spiritual, supernal), tanrıbilim (divinity, theology), tahmin etmek (anticipate, calculate, cast off, conjecture, dope, dope out, estimate, extrapolate, forecast, guess, judge, presume, put down, suppose, surmise, take stock of), sezmek (antedate, anticipate, be sensible of, detect, discern, feel, guess, have a scent for smth., intuit, perceive, rumble, scent, see, sense, smell, sniff, taste blood), rahip (clergy, clergyman, cleric, clerk in holy orders, dominie, magus, monk, parson, priest, sky pilot), kutsal (blessed, celestial, heavenly, hiero-, holy, inviolate, sacramental, sacred, sacrosanct, Saint, sainted, saintly, sanctified, sanctus, solemn, venerable), kehanette bulunmak (augur, cast, denounce, foretell, omen, oracle, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, soothsay, vaticinate), ilahiyatçı (theologian, theologist), ilahiyat (divinity, theology), ilahi (anthem, canticle, celestial, chant, elysian, godly, heavenly, hymn, psalm), içine doğmak (forebode, guess, have a feeling, intuit, presage), harika (beautiful, bully, cool, corking, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, far out, gorgeous, groovy, immense, in the groove, jolly good, keen, marvel, marvellous, marvelous, miracle, no mean, old, phenomenal, phenomenon, prodigious, prodigy, ripping, scrumptious, splendid, swell, whizz, wicked, wizard, wonder, wonderful, wondrous, yummy, yum-yum), gaipten haber vermek (foretell, practise divination), çok güzel (adorable, inspired, peachy, slashing, spiffing, spiffy, superbly, terrific, two thumbs up, very good). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

священик (cassock, chaplain, clergyman, curate, deacon, josser, minister, parson, pope, prelate, priest), святий (hallow, holy, sacred, sainted, saintly, sanctimonious), релегійний, віщувати (bespeak, foretoken, prophesy), богослов (theologian), божественний (airy, ambrosial, celestial, godlike, godly, heavenly, olympian, out of this world, supernal, supernatural), провіщати (adumbrate, bode, cast, forebode, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, harbinger, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, promise, shadow, signify, threaten, vaticinate, warn), передбачати (allow for, anticipate, apprehend, cover, envisage, envision, forecast, foresee, presage, previse, prognosticate, provide), даний богом (god given). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tuyệt trần, thiêng liêng tuyệt diệu, thần thanh, siêu ph m (heavenly, nature, superhuman, supermundane, unearthly), nh thần học (theologian). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

dwyfol, diwinydd (theologian), dewinio, brudio (prognosticate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Divine

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

ariolandi, ariolatus, ariolo, asadiam, caeleste, caelestem, caelesti, caelestia, caelestibus, caelestis, caelestium, cælestis, die, dii, diis, dius, divina, divinabant, divinabitis, divinant, divinantes, divinarentur, divinas, divino, divinus, divus, fas, sacer, sancta, sanctae, sanctam, sanctas, sancte, sancti, sanctior, sanctis, sanctissima, sanctissimae, sanctissimas, sanctissimis, sanctissimum, sanctissimus, sanctius, sancto, sanctoque, sanctorum, sanctos, sanctum, sanctumque, sanctus, sanctusque. (various references)

Old English450-1100

godcund. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Divine

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 16, Verse 10
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintManteion epi ceilesin basilewV en de krisei ou mh planhqh to stoma autou
Latin405VulgateDivinatio in labiis regis in iudicio non errabit os eius
Middle English1395WyclifDeuynyng in the lippis of the king; in dom his mouth shal not erre.
Jacobean English1611King JamesA divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
Victorian English1833WebsterA divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
Basic English1964OgdenDecision is in the lips of the king: his mouth will not go wrong in judging.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Divine

LanguageProverbs Chapter 16, Verse 10
Cebuano¶ Ang diosnong pagpahamtang sa silot anaa sa mga ngabil sa hari; Ang iyang baba dili magalapas diha sa paghukom.
CroatianProroèanstvo je na usnama kraljevim: u osudi se njegova usta neæe ogriješiti.
DanishDer er Gudsdom på Kongens Læber, ej fejler hans Mund, når han dømmer.
DutchWaarzegging is op de lippen des konings; zijn mond zal niet overtreden in het gericht.
FinnishKuninkaan huulilla on jumalallinen ratkaisu; hänen suunsa ei petä tuomitessaan.
FrenchDes oracles sont sur les lèvres du roi: Sa bouche ne doit pas être infidèle quand il juge.
GermanWeissagung ist in dem Munde des Königs; sein Mund fehlt nicht im Gericht.
Haitian Creole¶ Lè yon wa pale, se tankou si se te Bondye ki pale. Lè l'ap jije, li p'ap janm rann move jijman.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariRaja menerima kuasa dari Allah, jadi, ia tidak bersalah dalam keputusannya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaBahwa dalam mulut raja adalah keputusan segala perselisihan; maka iapun akan tiada salah dalam hukum.
ItalianUn oracolo è sulle labbra del re, in giudizio la sua bocca non sbaglia.
Korean하 나 님 의 말 " 이 왕 의 입 에 있 은 즉 재 판 때 에 그 입 이 그 릇 하 지 아 니 하 리 라
Maori¶ He kupu atua kei nga ngutu o te kingi; e kore tona mangai e poka ke ina whakawa.
NorwegianGuddoms-ord er på kongens leber; hans munn skal ikke forsynde sig når han dømmer.
PortugueseNos lábios do rei acham-se oráculos; em juízo a sua boca não prevarica.   
RumanianHotqrkri dumnezeiewti sknt pe buzele kmpqratului, gura lui nu trebuie sq facq greweli cknd judecq. -
Russianч ХУФБИ "БТС--УМПЧП Ч"ПИОПЧЕООПЕ; ХУФБ ЕЗП ОЕ "ПМЦОЩ ПЗТЕЫБФШ ОБ УХ"Е.
SpanishHay oráculo en los labios del rey; en el juicio no yerra su boca.
SwedishGudasvar är på konungens läppar, i domen felar icke hans mun.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Divine

Derivations

Words beginning with "divine": divined, divinely, diviner, diviners, divines, divinest. (additional references)

Words ending with "divine": semidivine. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Divine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daine, Daoine, Davinia, debine, Dedinje, degine, Delvine, Devenay, devenu, Devienne, devin, devine, dibin, digin, disine, divage, divane, divano, diverne, diviana, Diviani, divice, divie, divin, Divinae, divini, divise, divize, Divlin, Divonne, divvent, divvie, Dovana, dovie, dovine, dvin, Dvina, eivind, ivane. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Divine"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "divine" (pronounced divī"n)
3-v ī" nvine.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Divine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-n-v"

-1 letter: indie, ivied, vined.

-2 letters: deni, dine, dive, nevi, nide, nidi, vein, vend, vide, vied, vine.

-3 letters: den, dev, die, din, end, vie.

-4 letters: de, ed, en, id, in, ne.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-n-v"
 

+1 letter: divined, diviner, divines, invited.

 

+2 letters: deriving, deviling, devilkin, devising, dividend, divinely, diviners, divinest, divinise, divinize, invoiced, vanitied, vilipend, vinified, visioned.

 

+3 letters: avianized, deceiving, depriving, deveining, deviating, deviation, devilkins, devilling, devoicing, disinvest, disinvite, diverging, diversion, diverting, divesting, dividends, divinised, divinises, divinized, divinizes, driveline, driveling, evildoing, inductive, invalided, inveighed, inveigled, lividness, misdriven, redriving, reinvited, undivided, uninvited, unvisited, vilipends, vindicate, vividness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Divine


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 76 69 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    ...-    ..    -.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01110110 01101001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#118 &#105 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0076 0069 006E 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

387588758071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 		5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Sounds 		9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction 		13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Usage Frequency
16. Names: Frequency 		17. Names: Derived from
18. Expressions
19. Expressions: Internet
20. Translations: Modern 		21. Translations: Ancient
22. Bible Trace
23. Abbreviations
24. Acronyms 		25. Derivations
26. Rhymes
27. Anagrams
28. Orthography 		29. Bibliography


  

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