(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.
Hallowed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Hallow
Example Sentences:
(1) Louis CK is exploding a few myths about one of pop culture's most hallowed spaces, the sitcom writers' room.
(2) Because the all-hallowed children must learn from their elders to exercise, every adult entering Hampstead Heath must hit the dirt for a set of 25 press-ups.
(3) 5.02pm BST PS: one last line from Dublin, from Henry McDonald: There was some pre-Hallowe'en ghoulish reaction to one aspect of the budget cuts from Fianna Fail, the main opposition party in Ireland .
(4) Thinking it was quite a lark we joined in and the ensuing 10-minute interval on the hallowed turf was a carnival atmosphere with much fun had by all, the highlight being the conga lines dancing to the chant of 'Bulstrode is a wanker'.
(5) Wednesday's decision by the UK supreme court in the case of Yunus Rahmatullah , a man detained by the British in Iraq, might seem to be about the hallowed writ of habeas corpus .
(6) But not everyone saw the Sun King - as the financial press dubbed him - in such hallowed terms, with an army of environmentalists, corporate responsibility experts and even investors turning against him despite wideranging attempts to position BP as a corporate champion of all their causes.
(7) As the floors rise, their balustrades are topped with thin bands of blue, red, yellow and green, reading as a stack of Olympic rings from the upper level – a mischievous retort to the International Olympic Committee's official ban on the use of their hallowed linked rings.
(8) Games were played and nobody ever thought of protecting the hallowed turf.
(9) President Obama broke new ground in his inaugural address when he elevated the 1969 Stonewall gay rights protest to the same hallowed position enjoyed in the American memory by the battle for women's equality and the civil rights struggle.
(10) They say the outpouring of condemnation at the "outrage" of a mosque close to the "hallowed ground" of the World Trade Centre site also goes hand in hand with the increasing acceptability of what they describe as hate speech.
(11) 7.40pm BST The ceremony continues .. Now dozens of large men pretending to be knights are doing fake battle on the hallowed Wembley turf.
(12) Ten hallowed concepts have been critically analyzed in the light of modern technology and contemporary experience.
(13) The BBC1 drama was up against the terrestrial premiere of the concluding part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 on ITV.
(14) It was first held in 1835 to honour the silver wedding anniversary of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and Therese, after whom the hallowed Oktoberfest site, the Theresienwiese, is named.
(15) In All Hallows' Eve, the focus is on forgiveness and the opportunity to correct relational mistakes while one is in a purgatorial state.
(16) It's a sign of the times that the world's most tradition-bound ensemble is now a web trailblazer, opening up the hallowed halls of Berlin's Philharmonie to an infinitely wider audience.
(17) The site has become a breeding ground for a new generation of visually inventive film-makers, for whom the ultimate status symbol is a place among the hallowed “staff picks” on its homepage.
(18) There was a time when the closest Christofer Toumazou thought he would get to the hallowed halls of Imperial College in London was when he was walking down Exhibition road on the way to the science museum, with the workshops of the esteemed institution visible on his right.
(19) In 2011 China delayed the local release dates for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and Transformers: Dark of the Moon to give propaganda epic Beginning of the Great Revival a clear run at the box office, while James Bond film Skyfall was similarly pushed back in 2012.
(20) Radcliffe in Harry Porter And The Deathly Hallows: 'There aren't many great parts out there for teenage boys, certainly not as good as Harry Potter.'