| ADJECTIVE | all | divine, godly | emanating from God |
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| all | divine, providential | resulting from divine providence | |
| all | divine, godlike | being or having the nature of a god | |
| all | divine | devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity | |
| all | divine, godlike | appropriate to or befitting a god | |
| all | divine, elysian, inspired | being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods | |
| VERB | perception | divine | perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers |
| contact | divine | search by divining, as if with a rod | |
| NOUN | person | Divine, Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah | terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God |
| person | divine, cleric, churchman, ecclesiastic | a clergyman or other person in religious orders |
| Sounds | dihvay'n | |
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| Rhymes | affine ... wine: 145 rhymes with ayn... | |
| Meaning | emanating from God. | |
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| Synonym | godly | |
| Broader | heavenly | Of or belonging to heaven or god |
| Spanish | divino | |
| Catalan | diví | |
| Adverbs | divinely | by divine means |
| Meaning | Resulting from divine providence. | |
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| Synonym | providential | |
| Broader | heavenly | Of or belonging to heaven or god |
| Spanish | divino, providencial | |
| Catalan | providencial | |
| Meaning | Being or having the nature of a god. | |
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| Synonym | godlike | |
| Broader | heavenly | Of or belonging to heaven or god |
| Spanish | divino | |
| Nouns | divinity | any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force |
| Meaning | devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity. | |
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| Broader | sacred | concerned with religion or religious purposes |
| Spanish | divino | |
| Nouns | divinity | the quality of being divine |
| Meaning | Appropriate to or befitting a god. | |
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| Example | "the divine strength of Achilles" | |
| Synonym | godlike | |
| Broader | superhuman | Above or beyond the human or demanding more than human power or endurance |
| Spanish | divino | |
| Meaning | Of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods. | |
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| Synonyms | elysian, inspired | |
| Broader | glorious | Having or deserving or conferring glory |
| Spanish | divino, excelente, excepcional, extraordinario, genial, sublime | |
| Catalan | diví, excel·lent, excepcional, extraordinari, genial, sublim | |
| Meaning | Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God. | |
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| Synonyms | Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah | |
| Instance of | God, Supreme Being | The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe |
| Narrower | Trinity, Holy Trinity, Blessed Trinity, Sacred Trinity | The union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead |
| hypostasis, hypostasis of Christ | Any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting / constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united | |
| Spanish | Dios Todopoderoso, el Creador, el Todopoderoso | |
| Catalan | Déu Totpoderós, el Creador | |
| Meaning | A clergyman or other person in religious orders. | |
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| Synonyms | cleric, churchman, ecclesiastic | |
| Instances | Bruno, Saint Bruno, St. Bruno | (Roman Catholic Church) a French cleric (born in Germany) who founded the Carthusian order in 1084 (1032-1101) |
| a Kempis, Thomas a Kempis | German ecclesiastic (1380-1471) | |
| Narrower | ordainer | A cleric who ordains |
| pardoner | A medieval cleric who raised money for the church by selling papal indulgences | |
| pluralist | A cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time / time | |
| Broader | clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth | A member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church |
| Spanish | clérigo, eclesiástico | |
| Catalan | clergue, eclesiàstic | |
| Meaning | perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | |
| Narrower | chiromance | divine by reading someone's palms |
| Broader | perceive, comprehend | To become aware of through the senses |
| Spanish | adivinar, intuir | |
| Adjectives | divinatory | resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy |
| Nouns | divination | the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means |
| divination | a prediction uttered under divine inspiration | |
| diviner | someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers | |
| Meaning | search by divining, as if with a rod. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "He claimed he could divine underground water" | |
| Narrower | dowse | Use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal |
| Broader | search, seek, look for | try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of |
| Spanish | adivinar | |
| Nouns | diviner | someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers |
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