Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language 1. (a.) Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. 2. (a.) Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. 3. (a.) Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship. 4. (a.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods. 5. (a.) 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. 6. (a.) Presageful; foreboding; prescient. 7. (a.) Relating to divinity or theology. 8. (a.) One skilled in divinity; a theologian. 9. (n.) A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. 10. (v. t.) To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture. 11. (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to presage. 12. (v. t.) To render divine; to deify. 13. (v. i.) To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications. 14. (v. i.) To have or feel a presage or foreboding. 15. (v. i.) To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.
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