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di·vine

(dĭ-vīn′)

adj. di·vin·er, di·vin·est

a. Having the nature of or being a deity.

b. Of, relating to, emanating from, or being the expression of a deity: sought divine guidance through meditation.

c. Being in the service or worship of a deity; sacred.

2. Superhuman; godlike.

a. Supremely good or beautiful; magnificent: a divine performance of the concerto.

b. Extremely pleasant; delightful: had a divine time at the ball.

1. A cleric.

2. A theologian.

v. di·vined, di·vin·ing, di·vines

v.tr.

1. To foretell, especially by divination. See Synonyms at foretell.

2. To guess or know by inspiration or intuition: somehow divined the answer despite not having read the assignment.

3. To locate (underground water or minerals) with a divining rod; douse.

v.intr.

1. To practice divination.

2. To guess.

[Middle English, from Old French devine, from Latin dīvīnus, divine, foreseeing, from dīvus, god; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots. V., Middle English divinen, from Old French deviner, from Latin dīvīnāre, from dīvīnus.]

di·vine′ly adv.

di·vine′ness n.

di·vin′er n.

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Adv.

divinely - by divine means; "the divinely appointed means of rescue from temporal existence"

Translations

divinely

[dɪˈvaɪnlɪ] ADV (Rel) → divinamente (fig) → sublimemente → divinamente, maravillosamente

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

divinely

[dɪˈvaɪnli] adv

(= by God) [ordained, inspired] → par la volonté divine

(= wonderfully) [handsome, glamorous] → divinement

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

divinely

adv

(Rel, by God) appointed, inspired → von Gott; divinely ordained → von Gott gewollt; divinely noble/wise → göttlich edel/weise

(fig inf) funny, decadent etc → göttlich (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

divinely

[dɪˈvaɪnlɪ] adv → divinamente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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One could have imagined her very fair, if not divinely tall, leaving a scent of lemons and oranges in her wake.

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And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely. Natures that have much heat, and great and violent desires and perturbations, are not ripe for action, till they have passed the meridian of their years; as it was with Julius Caesar and Septimius Severus.

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Putting my faith in old saws, as a young man will, I had never dreamed to know again a bliss so divinely passionate and pure as came to me with every glance of Nicolete's sweet eyes, with every simple pressure of her hand; and the joy that was mine when sometimes, stopping on our way, we would press together our lips ever so gravely and tenderly, seems too holy even to speak of.

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The dream--and diction--of a God, did the world then seem to me; coloured vapours before the eyes of a divinely dissatisfied one.

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"Well, whatever it was it must have been something nice because she was divinely beautiful.

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"Then," remarked Agnes, "it is the third since the Sunday of the Loetare : for, in less than a week, we had the miracle of the mocker of pilgrims divinely punished by Notre-Dame d'Aubervilliers, and that was the second miracle within a month."

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Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing the progress of humanity, modern history has postulated its own aims- the welfare of the French, German, or English people, or, in its highest abstraction, the welfare and civilization of humanity in general, by which is usually meant that of the peoples occupying a small northwesterly portion of a large continent.

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She is perfectly charming; and Patti sang divinely. Don't talk about horrid subjects.

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"That is very true," she said; "he cannot sing now; it is already many years that he has lost his voice, but in other times he sang, yes, divinely! So whenever he comes now, you shall see, yes, that the theater will not hold the people.

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The heroine of a modern novel is always "divinely tall," and she is ever "drawing herself up to her full height." At the "Barley Mow" she would bump her head against the ceiling each time she did this.

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Thanks to his pastorals, I could long afterwards enjoy with the double sense requisite for full pleasure in them, such divinely excellent artificialities at Tasso's "Aminta" and Guarini's "Pastor Fido"; things which you will thoroughly like only after you are in the joke of thinking how people once seriously liked them as high examples of poetry.

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There she went in and put to the glittering doors, and there the Graces bathed her with heavenly oil such as blooms upon the bodies of the eternal gods -- oil divinely sweet, which she had by her, filled with fragrance.