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Diverse (?), v. i. To turn aside. [Obs.]
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The redcross knight diverst, but forth rode Britomart. Spenser.
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Diversely (?), adv. 1. In different ways; differently; variously. “Diversely interpreted.” Bacon.
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How diversely love doth his pageants play. Spenser.
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2. In different directions; to different points.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Pope.
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Diverseness (?), n. The quality of being diverse.
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Diversifiability (?), n. The quality or capacity of being diversifiable. Earle.
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Diversifiable (?), a. Capable of being diversified or varied. Boyle.
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Diversification (?), n. [See .] 1. The act of making various, or of changing form or quality. Boyle.
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2. State of diversity or variation; variegation; modification; change; alternation.
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Infinite diversifications of tints may be produced. Adventurer.
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Diversified (?), a. Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape.
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Diversifier (?), n. One who, or that which, diversifies.
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Diversiform (?), a. [L. diversus diverse + -form.] Of a different form; of varied forms.
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Diversify (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diversified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Diversifying.] [F. diversifier, LL. diversificare, fr. L. diversus diverse + ficare (in comp.), akin to facere to make. See .] To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
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Separated and diversified on from another. Locke.
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Its seven colors, that diversify all the face of nature. I. Taylor.
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Diversiloquent (?), a. [L. diversus diverse + loquens, p. pr. of loqui to speak.] Speaking in different ways. [R.]
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Diversion (?), n. [Cf. F. diversion. See .] 1. The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.
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2. That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth. “Public diversions.” V. Knox.
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Such productions of wit and humor as expose vice and folly, furnish useful diversion to readers. Addison.
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3. (Mil.) The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack, alarm, or feint which diverts.

Syn. -- Amusement; entertainment; pastime; recreation; sport; game; play; solace; merriment.
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diversionary adj. likely or designed to confuse or deceive; -- of tactics.
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Diversity (?), n.; pl. Diversities (#). [F. diversité, L. diversitas, fr. diversus. See .] 1. A state of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness.
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They will prove opposite; and not resting in a bare diversity, rise into a contrariety. South.
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2. Multiplicity of difference; multiformity; variety. “Diversity of sounds.” Shak. “Diversities of opinion.” Secker.
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3. Variegation. “Bright diversities of day.” Pope.

Syn. -- See .
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Diversivolent (?), a. [L. diversus diverse + volens, -entis, p. pr. of velle to wish.] Desiring different things. [Obs.] Webster (White Devil).
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Diversory (?), a. Serving or tending to divert; also, distinguishing. [Obs.]
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Diversory, n. [L. diversorium, deversorium, an inn or lodging.] A wayside inn. [Obs. or R.] Chapman.
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Divert (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Diverting.] [F. divertir, fr. L. divertere, diversum, to go different ways, turn aside; di- = dis- + vertere to turn. See , and cf. .] 1. To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course.
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That crude apple that diverted Eve. Milton.
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2. To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor.
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We are amused by a tale, diverted by a comedy. C. J. Smith.

Syn. -- To please; gratify; amuse; entertain; exhilarate; delight; recreate. See .
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Divert, v. i. To turn aside; to digress. [Obs.]
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I diverted to see one of the prince's palaces. Evelyn.
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Diverter (?), n. One who, or that which, diverts, turns off, or pleases.
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Divertible (?), a. Capable of being diverted.
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Diverticle (?), n. [L. diverticulum, deverticulum, a bypath, fr. divertere to turn away.] 1. A turning; a byway; a bypath. [Obs.] Hales.
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2. (Anat.) A diverticulum.
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Diverticular (?), a. (Anat.) Pertaining to a diverticulum.
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Diverticulum (?), n.; pl. Diverticula (#). [L. See .] (Anat.) A blind tube branching out of a longer one.
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Divertimento (?), n.; pl. -ti (#). [It.] (Mus.) A light and pleasing composition.
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Diverting (?), a. Amusing; entertaining. -- Divertingly, adv. -- Divertingness, n.
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Divertise (?), v. t. [F. divertir, p. pr. divertissant.] To divert; to entertain. [Obs.] Dryden.
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Divertisement (?), n. [Cf. the next word.] Diversion; amusement; recreation. [R.]
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Divertissement (?), n. [F.] A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play. Smart.
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Divertive (?), a. [From .] Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting.
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Things of a pleasant and divertive nature. Rogers.
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Dives (?), n. [L., rich.] The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the “Rich Man and Lazarus” (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling.
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Divest (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divested; p. pr. & vb. n. Divesting.] [LL. divestire (di- = dis- + L. vestire to dress), equiv. to L. devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely used except as a technical term in law. See , .] 1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
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2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc.
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Wretches divested of every moral feeling. Goldsmith.
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The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals. Earle.
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3. (Law) See . Mozley & W.
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Divestible (?), a. Capable of being divested.
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Divestiture (?; 135), n. The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
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Divestment (?), n. The act of divesting. [R.]
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Divesture (?; 135), n. Divestiture. [Obs.]
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Divet (?), n. See .
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Dividable (?), a. [From .] 1. Capable of being divided; divisible.
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2. Divided; separated; parted. [Obs.] Shak.
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Dividant (?), a. Different; distinct. [Obs.] Shak.
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Divide (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divided; p. pr. & vb. n. Dividing.] [L. dividere, divisum; di- = dis- + root signifying to part; cf. Skr. vyadh to pierce; perh. akin to L. vidua widow, and E. widow. Cf. , .] 1. To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
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Divide the living child in two. 1 Kings iii. 25.
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2. To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns.
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Let it divide the waters from the waters. Gen. i. 6.
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3. To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share.
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True justice unto people to divide. Spenser.
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Ye shall divide the land by lot. Num. xxxiii. 54.
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4. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
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If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom can not stand. Mark iii. 24.
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Every family became now divided within itself. Prescott.
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5. To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question.
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6. (Math.) To subject to arithmetical division.
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7. (Logic) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.
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8. (Mech.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
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9. (Music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. [Obs.] Spenser.

Syn. -- To sever; dissever; sunder; cleave; disjoin; disunite; detach; disconnect; part; distribute; share.
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Divide, v. i. 1. To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder. Milton.
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The Indo-Germanic family divides into three groups. J. Peile.
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2. To cause separation; to disunite.
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A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest. Bancroft.
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3. To break friendship; to fall out. Shak.
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4. To have a share; to partake. Shak.
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5. To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
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The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals. Gibbon.
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Divide, n. A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; also called watershed and water parting. A divide on either side of which the waters drain into two different oceans is called a continental divide.
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Divided, a. 1. Parted; disunited; distributed.
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2. (Bot.) Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; -- said of a leaf.
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Dividedly, adv. Separately; in a divided manner.
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Dividend (?), n. [L. dividendum thing to be divided, neut. of the gerundive of dividere: cf. F. dividende.] 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate.
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2. (Math.) A number or quantity which is to be divided.
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Divident (?), n. Dividend; share. [Obs.] Foxe.
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Divider (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts.
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2. One who deals out to each his share.
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Who made me a judge or a divider over you? Luke xii. 14.
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3. One who, or that which, causes division.
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Hate is of all things the mightiest divider. Milton.
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Money, the great divider of the world. Swift.
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4. pl. An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See .
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☞ The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
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5. a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another). The structure may be a wall with an opening in it to allow seeing one part of the room from the other. This term is also used to designate a semitransparent curtain formed by hanging multiple strings of various materials from a ceiling, intended to visually partition a room without inhibiting passage between the partitions
Syn. -- partition, room divider.
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Dividing (?), a. That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating.
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Coloq. Dividing engine , a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars (as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Coloq. Dividing sinker . (Knitting Mach.). See under .
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Dividingly (?), adv. By division.
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Divi-divi (?), n. [Native name.] (Bot.) A small tree of tropical America (Cæsalpinia coriaria), whose legumes contain a large proportion of tannic and gallic acid, and are used by tanners and dyers.
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Dividual (?; 135), a. [See .] Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. [R.] Milton.
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Dividually, adv. By dividing. [R.]
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Dividuous (?), a. [L. dividuus divisible, divided, fr. dividere.] Divided; dividual. [R.]
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He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous, selfsubsistent. Coleridge.
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Divination (?), n. [L. divinatio, fr. divinare, divinatum, to foresee, foretell, fr. divinus: cf. F. divination. See .] 1. The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.
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There shall not be found among you any one that . . . useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter. Deut. xviii. 10.
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☞ Among the ancient heathen philosophers natural divination was supposed to be effected by a divine afflatus; artificial divination by certain rites, omens, or appearances, as the flight of birds, entrails of animals, etc.
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2. An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.
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Birds which do give a happy divination of things to come. Sir T. North.
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Divinator (?), n. [L. See .] One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner. [R.] Burton.
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Divinatory (?), a. [Cf. F. divinatoire.] Professing, or relating to, divination. “A natural divinatory instinct.” Cowley.
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Divine (?), a. [Compar. (�); superl. .] [F. divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, belonging to a deity; akin to Gr. �, and L. deus, God. See .] 1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. “The immensity of the divine nature.” Paley.
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2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. “Divine protection.” Bacon.
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3. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.
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4. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods. “The divine Apollo said.” Shak.
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5. 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. “The divine Desdemona.” Shak.
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A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. Prov. xvi. 10.
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But not to one in this benighted age
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6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Obs.]
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Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill,
Misgave him. Milton.
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7. Relating to divinity or theology.
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Church history and other divine learning. South.

Syn. -- Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; preëminent.
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Divine, n. [L. divinus a soothsayer, LL., a theologian. See , a.] 1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. “Poets were the first divines.” Denham.
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2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
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The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. J. Woodbridge.
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Divine, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divined (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Divining.] [L. divinare: cf. F. deviner. See .] 1. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.
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A sagacity which divined the evil designs. Bancroft.
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2. To foretell; to predict; to presage.
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Darest thou . . . divine his downfall? Shak.
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3. To render divine; to deify. [Obs.]
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Living on earth like angel new divined. Spenser.

Syn. -- To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate; forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise.
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Divine, v. i. 1. To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
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The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah iii. 11.
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2. To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
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Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts. Shak.
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3. To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.
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Divinely, adv. 1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree.
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Most divinely fair. Tennyson.
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2. By the agency or influence of God.
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Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness. Macaulay.
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Divinement (?), n. Divination. [Obs.]
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Divineness, n. The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence. Shak.
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Diviner (?), n. 1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.
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The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2.
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2. A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things. Locke.
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Divineress, n. A woman who divines. Dryden.
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