\Di*vine"\, a. [Compar. {Diviner}; superl. {Divinest}.]
[F. divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus,
dius, belonging to a deity; akin to Gr. ?, and L. deus, God.
See {Deity}.]
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. [Obs.]
         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; pre["e]minent.

\Di*vine"\, n. [L. divinus a soothsayer, LL., a
theologian. See {Divine}, a.]
1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. ``Poets were the
   first divines.'' --Denham.
2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
         The first divines of New England were surpassed by
         none in extensive erudition.          --J.
                                               Woodbridge.

\Di*vine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Divined}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Divining}.] [L. divinare: cf. F. deviner. See
{Divination}.]
1. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to
   conjecture.
         A sagacity which divined the evil designs.
                                               --Bancroft.
2. To foretell; to predict; to presage.
         Darest thou . . . divine his downfall? --Shak.
3. To render divine; to deify. [Obs.]
         Living on earth like angel new divined. --Spenser.
Syn: To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate;
     forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise.

\Di*vine"\, v. i.
1. To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination;
   to utter prognostications.
         The prophets thereof divine for money. --Micah iii.
                                               11.
2. To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
         Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts. --Shak.
3. To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.