divine

adj 1: emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance";

"everything is black1 or white...satanic or

godlyt"-Saturday Rev. [syn: {godly}]

2: resulting from divine providence; "providential care" [syn:

{providential}]

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: {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: {godlike}]

6: of such surpassing excellence as to suggest divine

inspiration; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine

Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance"

[syn: {elysian}, {inspired}]

n 1: the Christian god [syn: {Godhead}, {Lord}, {Creator}, {Divine},

{God Almighty}, {Almighty}, {Jehovah}]

2: a clergyman or other person in religious orders [syn: {cleric},

{churchman}, {ecclesiastic}]

v 1: perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive

powers

2: search by divining, as if with a rod, of underground water

or metals

3: discover intuitively