divine definition

1. perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers
2. search by divining, as if with a rod
• examples: He claimed he could divine underground water
3. emanating from God; ; ; -Saturday Review
• examples: divine judgment
• examples: divine guidance
• examples: everything is black or white...satanic or godly
4. being or having the nature of a god; -J.G.Frazier; ; ; -J.G.Saxe
• examples: the custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers
• examples: the divine will
• examples: the divine capacity for love
• examples: 'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create
5. devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity
• examples: divine worship
• examples: divine liturgy
6. appropriate to or befitting a god; ; ; -R.H.Roveref
• examples: the divine strength of Achilles
• examples: a man of godlike sagacity
• examples: man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers
7. being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods
• examples: her pies were simply divine
• examples: the divine Shakespeare
• examples: an elysian meal
• examples: an inspired performance