All 4 Uses of
divine
in
Cyrano de Bergerac
- Divinity in every careless gesture
Act 1 *divinity = something that is wonderful
- I never will, while of myself I'm master, let the divinity of tears—their beauty Be wedded to such common ugly grossness.†
Act 1divinity = the state of being god-like; or of being a god
- dear divinity!†
Act 2
- ...Insult not the divine grasshoppers, the sweet singers!†
Act 2
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 predict or discover 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) 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.