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Divine

Dictionary definition · Divine

noun

  1. terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
  2. a clergyman or other person in religious orders

verb

  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"

adjective

  1. emanating from God"divine judgment"
  2. resulting from divine providence"providential care"
  3. being or having the nature of a god"the custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his … powers"
  4. devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity"divine worship"
  5. appropriate to or befitting a god"the divine strength of Achilles"
  6. being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods"her pies were simply divine"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).