divining

Variant of divine

adjective

  1. of or like God or a god
  2. given or inspired by God; holy; sacred
  3. devoted to God; religious; sacrosanct
  4. having to do with theology
  5. supremely great, good, etc.
  6. Informal very pleasing, attractive, etc.

Origin: ME & OFr < L divinus < divus, god, deity

noun

  1. a member of the clergy
  2. a theologian

transitive verb divined, divining

  1. to prophesy
  2. to guess; conjecture
  3. to find out by intuition

Origin: ME devinen < OFr deviner < L divinare < divinus

intransitive verb

  1. to engage in divination
  2. to make a conjecture
  3. to use a divining rod

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