![]() ![]() See minister, n.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. noun A minister of the gospel a priest a clergyman.noun A man skilled in divinity a theologian: as, a great divine “the Revelation of St.An instance in the Roman Catholic Church is the still unsettled claim of the bishops to power in their several dioceses, as opposed to the papal theory that they rule mediately through the pope. Of the clergy, a claim of divine authority for particular persons and particular forms of ecclesiastical government.Divining presageful foreboding prescient.Godlike heavenly excellent in the highest degree extraordinary apparently above what is human.Addressed or appropriated to God religious sacred: as, divine worship divine service, songs, or ascriptions.Pertaining to, of the nature of, or proceeding from God, or a god or heathen deity: as, divine perfections divine judgments the divine honors paid to the Roman emperors a being half human, half divine divine oracles.To make a guess or conjecture: as, you have divined rightly.To afford or impart presages of the future utter presages or prognostications.Synonyms To prognosticate, predict, prophesy.To render divine deify consecrate sanctify.To make out by observation or otherwise conjecture guess.To learn or make out by or as if by divination foretell presage.intransitive verb To practice divination.intransitive verb To locate (underground water or minerals) with a divining rod douse.intransitive verb To guess or know by inspiration or intuition.intransitive verb To foretell, especially by divination.adjective Extremely pleasant delightful.adjective Supremely good or beautiful magnificent.adjective Being in the service or worship of a deity sacred.adjective Of, relating to, emanating from, or being the expression of a deity.adjective Having the nature of or being a deity. ![]() From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. ![]()
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