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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