divine

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(n) terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
(n) a clergyman or other person in religious orders
(s) emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black1 or white...satanic or godlyt"-Saturday Rev.
(s) resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a providential visitation"
(s) being or having the nature of a god; "the custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers"-J.G.Frazier; "the divine will"; "the divine capacity for love"; "''Tis wise to learn; ''tis God-like to create"-J.G.Saxe
(s) devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity; "divine worship"; "divine liturgy"
(s) appropriate to or befitting a god; "the divine strength of Achilles"; "a man of godlike sagacity"; "man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers"-R.H.Roveref
(s) of such surpassing excellence as to suggest divine inspiration; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance"
(v) perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers
(v) search by divining, as if with a rod; "He claimed he could divine underground water"

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