What's the difference between divine and omen?

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.

Omen


Definition:

  • (n.) An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury.
  • (v. t.) To divine or to foreshow by signs or portents; to have omens or premonitions regarding; to predict; to augur; as, to omen ill of an enterprise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 7-OMEN was the major fluorescent biliary species, but, by 24 h, N-demethyl menogaril accounted for approximately 40% of biliary drug fluorescence.
  • (2) In this study defibrotide produced a significantly lower pressure inside the circuit compared to the control group and gave a protective effect against those pathological changes which appeared during extracorporeal circulation and that may be considered omens of a state of shock.
  • (3) In the swinging 1960s, Peck's sober style seemed a little out of place, though he appeared in a couple of flashy Hitchcockian thrillers, Mirage (1965) and Arabesque (1966), and adapted to the new Hollywood as best he could, looking rather bothered as the father of a demon in The Omen (1976).
  • (4) Myth is seen as an external representation of man's inner life; omens and the gods are viewed in this context.
  • (5) Maybe it was a bad omen for Los Angeles to hand out white towels to the fans in the stands.
  • (6) Neil Gaiman, with whom he wrote Good Omens (1991), agrees: "He's got better and better over the years – he now follows the story, not the jokes, while I think the early books followed the jokes … He makes it look easy.
  • (7) The opposition would be making a mistake if it refused to engage and they have got to hear what the regime has to say,” he said “The talks have to go ahead even if the omens are not good and it is unlikely there will be much progress.
  • (8) Some see the disintegrating Ceta deal as a bad omen for the UK, which wants to negotiate a post-Brexit free trade agreement with the EU.
  • (9) Multiple, sometimes bilateral FB are frequent and FB of a vegetable nature are of serious omen.
  • (10) It’s Godzilla versus King Kong, and the omens aren’t heartening.
  • (11) The Omen-syndrome is not a disease on its own, but a complication of congenital SCID.
  • (12) Statistical data have shown that both shock and coma are bad prognostic omens and patients presenting with these signs have less than a 50% chance leaving the hospital alive and well, even if they receive optimum emergency management.
  • (13) Kick off very shortly... 1.04am GMT More omens More omens - and they aren't good for NYRB: the Red Bulls haven't won any of the five games that Olave missed this season.
  • (14) Type I trauma includes full, detailed memories, "omens," and misperceptions.
  • (15) 7-OMEN and metabolites were measured by high performance liquid chromatography.
  • (16) 7-OMEN was the predominant fluorescent compound in urine, but four metabolites were also seen.
  • (17) Omen: You may or may not be aware that Uruguayan national team often refer to themselves as "Los Charruas", who were an indigenous people in South America.
  • (18) A good omen for the SNP's #indyref #WhitePaper launch?
  • (19) But the omens are not good: Britain has a grim history of divisiveness in education.
  • (20) It's my terrible dirty secret, a disclosure that almost always prompts an "ah, that makes sense", a stigma that brings with it a sense that somehow I am bad, a little Damien from The Omen , because I was the only one.