(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.
Ordeal
Definition:
(n.) An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes.
(n.) Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.
(a.) Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have much more fighting to do!” Now Cherwell is preparing to publish letters or articles from other students who have been inspired to open up about their own ordeals.
(2) Collins later thanked the condemned man for what he said was the respect he showed toward the execution team and for the way he endured the ordeal.
(3) Cal Zastrow, also with the group, said that, although he has stood by Davis throughout the ordeal, he wouldn’t support the clerk’s policy to allow deputies to issue licenses without her authorization.
(4) They said that the family were sure DNA tests would prove she is their biological relative, but added they had been "traumatised" by the ordeal.
(5) Skin deepithelialization is an integral part of many reconstructive procedures, but it can be a tedious and time-consuming ordeal when using conventional techniques.
(6) Rose, a Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design fine art graduate, said she is determined that the rules should be changed "as this treatment is becoming more commonplace for Crohn's disease sufferers and I would not want any other woman to have to go through this ordeal".
(7) As for Botha, he breathed a sigh of relief that his ordeal was over.
(8) Liang's ordeal ended when he grew so sick that he could no longer rise from his bed for the struggle sessions.
(9) The exercise was the highlight and halfway point of the Mars500 project, which aims to find out how humans would cope with the psychological ordeal of a real trip to Mars.
(10) Sami said all the survivors are likely to need psychological support after their ordeal.
(11) If this is not the case then we are keen to speak to victims and learn any lessons we can to improve our investigations.” Allen told the Observer that she had been left “a changed person” after the ordeal, feeling isolated from friends and family.
(12) Having concluded one part of their quest for justice, they now look to the British criminal courts to hold those responsible for their ordeal to account and await the judge-led inquiry they have been promised.” Belhaj, who last year led the battle for Tripoli, said: “When my friend Sami al-Saadi was freed from Abu Salim prison on 23 August 2011, he weighed seven stone.
(13) Ai emerged from his ordeal in June, far slimmer – having lost almost 10kg, some of which he has regained – and apparently chastened.
(14) FNAC not only helped detect early cancers, but its negative findings resulted in sparing patients the ordeal of surgical biopsy for benign conditions.
(15) A woman who had acid thrown in her face has spoken of her ordeal, describing the pain like being constantly stabbed in the eyes.
(16) He talked about the ordeal of retrieving dead bodies, and was critical of the defence department’s handling of personnel who had experienced trauma.
(17) John Kampfner Nick Griffin received the oxygen of publicity he craved, but at the end of a nation?s ordeal democracy emerged intact.
(18) Day is seeking compensation for those who survived the alleged ordeal.
(19) The spokeswoman said: “The prime minister recognises that the families of those hostages who were murdered have been through a terrible ordeal.
(20) The 12-hour ordeal for Stephanie – who did not wish to speak on the record or use her real name for fear of jeopardizing her job prospects – took place after police found one ounce of marijuana in her car.