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Meaning of divine

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  divine
      adj 1: emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance";
             "everything is black or white...satanic or
             godly"-Saturday Review [syn: {divine}, {godly}]
      2: resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a
         providential visitation" [syn: {providential}, {divine}]
      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 [syn: {divine}, {godlike}]
      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 [syn:
         {divine}, {godlike}]
      6: being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration
         by the gods; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine
         Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance"
         [syn: {divine}, {elysian}, {inspired}]
      n 1: terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God [syn: {Godhead},
           {Lord}, {Creator}, {Maker}, {Divine}, {God Almighty},
           {Almighty}, {Jehovah}]
      2: a clergyman or other person in religious orders [syn:
         {cleric}, {churchman}, {divine}, {ecclesiastic}]
      v 1: perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable
           perceptive powers
      2: search by divining, as if with a rod; "He claimed he could
         divine underground water"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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