divine
part of speech
adjective (divine, more divine); verb (divine, divines, divined, divining — to guess, to find water)
meaning for a pupil
1) (religion) Divine means of God or a god, or coming from God, as in "divine love" or "divine help". tree →
2) (informal) Divine means wonderful or delicious: "This cake is divine!" tree →
3) To divine is to guess or discover something by a feeling; water divining is looking for water underground with a stick. tree →
4) The divine is God, or the holy power that religious people believe in. tree →
sense in the lessons
In RE, Christians speak of Jesus as both human and divine; Hindus speak of many forms of the divine. In everyday talk a grown-up might say a chocolate pudding is "simply divine". Science pupils may hear that water divining has not been shown to work in fair tests. Phrases: divine intervention, divine love, the divine, simply divine.
examples
- Christians believe Jesus is divine. tree →
- The hymn praised God's divine love. tree →
- "Your soup is divine!" said Aunty Pat. tree →
- Some people say the rescue was divine intervention. tree →
- She divined from his face that something was wrong. tree →
- Water divining hasn't been proved by scientific tests. tree →
- False faith may escape human punishment, but cannot escape the divine. tree →
note
Adverb divinely; noun divinity (also RE in some schools). "Divine" as "delicious" is a bit posh and old-fashioned. Say "dih-VINE".
In the corpora
- Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.'
- And Saul had put away those that divined by a ghost or a familiar spirit out of the land.
- A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; his mouth trespasseth not in judgment.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «divine» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.