All 20 Uses of
divine
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- That could be divined.†
Chpt 3divined = discovered
- At the time it could not be so clear, since the future was unknown; but now that fifteen hundred years have passed, we see that everything in those three questions was so justly divined and foretold, and has been so truly fulfilled, that nothing can be added to them or taken from them.†
Chpt 5
- And so, not without good reason, he divined, with a sinking heart, that at moments she must simply hate him and his passion.†
Chpt 8 *
- It must be noted that Kolya understood and divined what was in Dardanelov's heart and, of course, despised him profoundly for his "feelings"; he had in the past been so tactless as to show this contempt before his mother, hinting vaguely that he knew what Dardanelov was after.†
Chpt 10
- Finally, she left the house and ran away from Fyodor Pavlovitch with a destitute divinity student, leaving Mitya, a child of three years old, in her husband's hands.†
Chpt 1 *
- The poor woman turned out to be in Petersburg, where she had gone with her divinity student, and where she had thrown herself into a life of complete emancipation.†
Chpt 1
- He was a divinity student, living under the protection of the monastery.†
Chpt 2
- The divinity student, the novice, and Alyosha remained standing.†
Chpt 2
- Alyosha did not dare to look at Rakitin, the divinity student, whom he knew almost intimately.†
Chpt 2
- Secondly, that 'criminal and civil jurisdiction ought not to belong to the Church, and is inconsistent with its nature, both as a divine institution and as an organization of men for religious objects,' and, finally, in the third place, 'the Church is a kingdom not of this world.'†
Chpt 2
- For that we have the divine promise.†
Chpt 2
- And what in human reckoning seems still afar off, may by the Divine ordinance be close at hand, on the eve of its appearance.†
Chpt 2
- In a miracle of Divine Providence.†
Chpt 3
- "Remember, young man, unceasingly," Father Paissy began, without preface, "that the science of this world, which has become a great power, has, especially in the last century, analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books.†
Chpt 4
- I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my hearts sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays and the soft, tender, gentle memories that come with them, the dear images from the whole of my long, happy life—and over all the Divine Truth, softening, reconciling, forgiving!†
Chpt 6
- Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth.†
Chpt 6
- If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.†
Chpt 6
- "He keeps talking nonsense, and we were all laughing," Kalganov began suddenly, as though divining his thought, and pointing to Maximov.†
Chpt 8 *
- 'Wretched doggerel,' he said they were, 'some divinity student must have written them,' and with such vehemence, such vehemence!†
Chpt 11
- Man will be lifted up with a spirit of divine Titanic pride and the man-god will appear.†
Chpt 11
Definitions:
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(1)
(divine as in: to forgive is divine) wonderful; or god-like or coming from God
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(2)
(divine as in: divined from tea leaves) to discover or predict something supernaturally (as if by magic)
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(3)
(divine as in: divined through intuition) to discover or guess something -- usually through intuition or reflection
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In the time of Shakespeare, divine was sometimes used as a noun to reference a priest or a person of the church. (To remember that sense, think of the clergyman as having come from God).
Divinity typically refers to a god or to a school of religion, but on rare occasions, it refers to the name of a kind of soft white candy. To remember that sense, you might think of it as tasting divine/wonderful.