Definitions for divines

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divines di·vine

Spelling: [dih-vahyn]

IPA: /dɪˈvaɪn/

Divines is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in divines (deiinsv).

Definitions for divines

noun

1. a theologian; scholar in religion.
2. a priest or member of the clergy.
3. the Divine. God. (sometimes lowercase) the spiritual aspect of humans; the group of attributes and qualities of humankind regarded as godly or godlike.

adjective

1. of or relating to a god, especially the Supreme Being.
2. addressed, appropriated, or devoted to God or a god; religious; sacred:
3. proceeding from God or a god:
4. godlike; characteristic of or befitting a deity:
5. heavenly; celestial:
6. extremely good; unusually lovely:
7. being a god; being God:
8. of superhuman or surpassing excellence:
9. Obsolete. of or relating to divinity or theology.

verb (used with object)

1. to discover or declare (something obscure or in the future) by divination; prophesy.
2. to discover (water, metal, etc.) by means of a divining rod.
3. to perceive by intuition or insight; conjecture:
4. Archaic. to portend.

verb (used without object)

1. to use or practice divination; prophesy.
2. to have perception by intuition or insight; conjecture.

Origin of divines

1275-1325; Middle English Latin dīvīnus, equivalent to dīv(us) god + -īnus -ine¹; replacing Middle English devin(e) Old French devin Latin, as above

Examples for divines

The doctrine of nonresistance had been dear to the Anglican divines.

He who divines it will have gone far to solving the tedious problem of sex.

Latimer and Paley, with a host of other divines, were students here.

She feels my approach, she divines it, her presentiment does not deceive her.

He was examined in the faith, by the King's command, by two Berlin divines.

Perhaps if they had been priests or divines they might have resisted to the last.

He despises her because of the Mollycoddle he divines in her.

Twenty-four divines sate as proctors for twenty-four chapters.

divines, he said, had nothing to do with military arrangements.

Erasmus was received with great complaisance by the Louvain divines.