All 3 Uses of
divine
in
Measure for Measure
- ] Provost, my brother Angelo will not be altered, Claudio must die to-morrow: let him be furnished with divines, and have all charitable preparation: if my brother wrought by my pity it should not be so with him.†
Scene 3.2 *
- I know him for a man divine and holy;
Scene 5.1 *divine = like a wonderful person of the church (emanating from God)
- O my dread lord, I should be guiltier than my guiltiness, To think I can be undiscernible, When I perceive your grace, like power divine, Hath look'd upon my passes.†
Scene 5.1
Definitions:
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(divine as in: to forgive is divine) wonderful; or god-like or coming from God
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(divine as in: divined from tea leaves) to predict or discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)