What's the difference between ambrosial and divine?

Ambrosial


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious.
  • (a.) Divinely excellent or beautiful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Berry meringue roulade Meringue, thick cream and berries – it's an ambrosial combination.
  • (2) Mario Ambrosi (@marioambrosi) How does targeting more affluent pensioners to pay more square with encouraging people to save for their care in old age?
  • (3) Mario Ambrosi is head of public affairs for Anchor .
  • (4) Social work will need to know where its duty of care is and where it is not.” Mario Ambrosi , head of communication and public affairs, Anchor: “I think a major issue is working out how much different groups of staff need to know about the various elements of the act.
  • (5) It means offering reasonable, workable efficient ways and criteria to be admitted into a labour market, which incidentally requires migrants.” Ambrosi was speaking before it was revealed that EU member states remain far short of ambitions to resettle refugees from Greece or Italy, the frontline states in the EU’s migration crisis.
  • (6) Panellists Jim Thomas , programme head, Skills for Care Clara Swinson , director for social care, Department of Health Mario Ambrosi , head of communication and public affairs, Anchor Patrick Hall , practice development manager (policy), the Social Care Institute for Excellence (Scie) Kate Metcalf , professional practice adviser, the College of Social Work Peter Feldon , BASW member and freelance Care Act consultant Simon Bottery , director of policy at Independent Age Discussion commissioned and controlled by the Guardian, hosted to a brief agreed with Skills for Care.
  • (7) Ambrosi contends that intense political focus on arrivals overshadows the data on departures, leading to a skewed impression of overall migrant numbers.
  • (8) Eugenio Ambrosi, Europe director at the UN-backed International Organisation for Migration , warned that – while he welcomed the Malta agreement – trying to stop the flow via “repressive measures” would not work.

Divine


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.
  • (a.) Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.
  • (a.) Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods.
  • (a.) Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir J. Davies.
  • (a.) Presageful; foreboding; prescient.
  • (a.) Relating to divinity or theology.
  • (a.) One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
  • (a.) A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
  • (v. t.) To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.
  • (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to presage.
  • (v. t.) To render divine; to deify.
  • (v. i.) To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
  • (v. i.) To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
  • (v. i.) To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here the miracle of the Lohans' baby was divinely ordained and fulfilled the entitlement of every woman to have a child.
  • (2) We’re all very upset right now,” said Daniel Ray, 24, in his third year of the divinity master’s degree program.
  • (3) Back then they claimed a divine right to rule over Afghanistan.
  • (4) As over-the-top as Ray Lewis often seems in his sermonizing give him this: when football is at its most dramatic it really does at least feel like there's something akin to a divine plan at work.
  • (5) As Labour has no real polices that I can divine, the idea of making it less testosterone-driven somehow interested me.
  • (6) It may be hard to tell in the latest show from the outrageously talented Meow Meow, a woman whose divinely sung and cleverly structured shows often give the impression of organised chaos.
  • (7) Baum (a surgeon), Bass (a psychiatrist), Whitehorn (a journalist), and Campbell (a professor of divinity) comment on the case as presented and on three hypothetical complicating situations involving the girl's request for plastic surgery to please her abusive father, the possibility of pregnancy, and physical injury from sexual assault.
  • (8) It's almost like a divinely inspired Hemingway writing in those parts.
  • (9) Because he is mad for them and I was like, you do not think they have gone the tiniest bit school run, as in Elle McPherson klaxon, but Mr Karzai was like, when something is a serious classic like a divine Turkman robe or the perfect ankle boot, it can survive any brand damage?
  • (10) The song is that musical embodiment of bittersweet chemical comedown when you still feel divine but your heart skips a beat and you don't always quite catch your breath."
  • (11) "But North Korea is not moving towards a collective system: it's all about the one leader … It's the divine right of Kims."
  • (12) A poor citizen can’t even find one kilogramme of rice on the street,” he said, arguing that the country’s rulers would face divine judgment for what they were doing to the poor.
  • (13) Everyone knew that if he'd wanted to he could have become professor of divinity at St Andrews, but academia was too dry for him.
  • (14) On 15 September, business leaders from Bridgeport, Connecticut – a down-at-heel port town on Long Island Sound - gathered just outside town in the Friendship Baptist Church to pray for divine intervention in a matter of business.
  • (15) So soon afterwards, here was their new leader telling them they had made a cataclysmic error: far from divine, Stalin was satanic.
  • (16) After World War II, he renounced his divinity and became the symbol of both the state and the unity of the people.
  • (17) Fuelled by latent ambition (and maybe a bit of that coke), Joan – with the help of some divine Cosgrovian intervention – decided she could turn her hand to producing ads.
  • (18) I'd get it from a shop called Hanna in Beirut – just divine.
  • (19) There might be tales of divine intervention (Newton believed doomsday would be in the 21st century, calculated from clues in the Bible), or the idea that a bloody war would end up causing so many casualties that nations would suffer and wither away.
  • (20) Its method permits access to the subjective, individual aspects of the development of belief and of the relationship to the divinity, as well as to the critical moments of their developmental reorganization.

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