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: to seek to predict future events or discover hidden knowledge usually by the interpretation of omens or by the aid of supernatural powers : to practice divination : prophesy

: to perceive intuitively

Choose the Right Synonym for divine

foresee, foreknow, divine, anticipate mean to know beforehand.

foresee implies nothing about how the knowledge is derived and may apply to ordinary reasoning and experience.

economists should have foreseen the recession

foreknow usually implies supernatural assistance, as through revelation.

if only we could foreknow our own destinies

divine adds to foresee the suggestion of exceptional wisdom or discernment.

was able to divine Europe's rapid recovery from the war

anticipate implies taking action about or responding emotionally to something before it happens.

the waiter anticipated our every need

Example Sentences

Adjective They prayed for divine intervention. how about a piece of the most divine apple pie I've ever tasted! Noun the great influence exerted by the Puritan divines in the Massachusetts Bay Colony Verb divine the answer to a question it was easy to divine his intention of asking his girlfriend to marry him

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Widely considered one of the leaders of Japan’s post-World War II industrial boom, Inamori mixed a fierce work ethic — sleeping in a factory at times early on — with a belief that divine intervention made success possible.

John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2022 Solangi is also hoping for divine intervention to save them from a disaster that no one saw coming.

Sameer Mandhro, CNN, 6 Sep. 2022 Lib insists on logic, which means some kind of trickery must be involved, whereas the town doctor (Toby Jones) and his all-male council (including the area priest, played by Ciarán Hinds) believe in divine intervention.

Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2022 Dennis Goins jokes his initial connection to Brevard was more of a coincidence than divine intervention.

Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2022 Each product included in either the shower kit or the countertop kit is nursing-safe, sustainable in nearly every way, natural-but-effective and smells divine.

Margaux Lushing, Forbes, 2 May 2022 This bright red chile oil smells divine and, instead of hitting you with heat straightaway, slowly builds.

Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2022 And Sisley’s Velvet Nourishing Cream with Saffron Flowers smells divine.

Aleksandra Crapanzano, Bon Appétit, 22 Nov. 2021 The Lapiths prevail with divine intervention, and the action flows straight into the Amazonamachy.

Dominic Green, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022

Noun

And Weir’s way with a chorus does tend to clear a path to the divine.

Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022 The result is a series that explores how the unwanted entry of the divine into everyday life can become not miraculous but horrifying.

Johnny Loftus, EW.com, 19 Aug. 2022 The happiest people have lives focused on love: of family, of friends, of others through work that serves, and in some cases of the divine as well.

Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 21 July 2022 How to explain, then, the exaltation that comes with ingesting substances that have no such chemical profile — that are endowed only with our perception of the divine?

New York Times, 11 May 2022 Religious leaders who once preferred to leave security in the hands of the divine are taking precautions that seemed unthinkable years prior, Stivi said.

Deepa Bharath And Luis Andres Henao, Chron, 17 July 2022 Religious leaders who once preferred to leave security in the hands of the divine are taking precautions that seemed unthinkable years prior, Stivi said.

Deepa Bharath, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2022 Here were two views of the divine, an earthly aristocracy versus the celestial.

Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 15 June 2022 The right formula, based on all of the best neuroscience, clinical, [and] social scientific research, is simply: Use things, love people, and worship the divine.

Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2022

Verb

But the reasons for Locke’s popularity in Revolutionary America aren’t hard to divine.

Barton Swaim, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022 These are merely some of the variables at play as businesses try to divine the future.

New York Times, 1 Feb. 2022 In 1692, a group of young girls, including Parris’ own daughter, Betty, and his niece, Abigail, began to bark like dogs and contort their bodies after allegedly attempting to divine their future.

Brooklyn White, Essence, 29 Apr. 2022 Look to these six states to divine the future of free elections in America.

Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 Apr. 2022 Triangle Productions’ founder Don Horn directs the master class that attempts to divine the real from the fake.

oregonlive, 12 Jan. 2022 Hultquist says those intentions are difficult to divine without knowing the hackers' specific targeting.

Andy Greenberg, Wired, 16 Jan. 2022 Helene Elliott was joined by Times staffers Curtis Zupke, Jim Barrero and Nick Leyva to divine what the new year holds for the local teams, and the sport more broadly.

Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2022 There’s little sense in trying to divine the perfect public-health policy from one country over a short period of time.

Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Adjective

Middle English divin, from Anglo-French, from Latin divinus, from divus god — more at deity

Noun

Middle English, from Medieval Latin divinus, from Latin, soothsayer, from divinus, adjective — see divine entry 1

Verb

Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French deviner, from Latin divinare, from divinus, noun — see divine entry 1

First Known Use

Adjective

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Time Traveler

The first known use of divine was in the 14th century

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