All 17 Uses
divine
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Harry Potter (#4) and the Goblet of Fire
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- we have almost finished our work on planetary divination.
Chpt 29 *divination = to predict something by magic
- Professor Trelawney was their Divination teacher at Hogwarts.†
Chpt 10
- "Double Divination this afternoon," Harry groaned, looking down.†
Chpt 13
- Divination was his least favorite subject, apart from Potions.†
Chpt 13
- "Shall we get our Divination stuff, then?" said Harry.†
Chpt 14
- "You know," said Ron, whose hair was on end because of all the times he had run his fingers through it in frustration, "I think it's back to the old Divination standby."†
Chpt 14
- Here he took a piece of parchment from the table upon which his Divination homework still lay and wrote the following letter: Dear Sirius, I reckon I just imagined my scar hurting, I was half asleep when I wrote to you last time.†
Chpt 15
- Harry and Ron were deeply amused when Professor Trelawney told them that they had received top marks for their homework in their next Divination class.†
Chpt 15
- He wanted to skip Divination to keep practicing, but Hermione refused pointblank to skive off Arithmancy, and there was no point in staying without her.†
Chpt 20
- He forced down some dinner after Divination, then returned to the empty classroom with Hermione, using the Invisibility Cloak to avoid the teachers.†
Chpt 20
- Harry thoroughly enjoyed double Divination that afternoon; they were still doing star charts and predictions, but now that he and Ron were friends once more, the whole thing seemed very funny again.†
Chpt 21
- This evening, after Divination.†
Chpt 24
- "See you at dinner!" said Hermione, and she set off for Arithmancy, while Harry and Ron headed toward North Tower, and Divination.†
Chpt 29
- Professor — I was in Divination just now, and — er — I fell asleep.†
Chpt 30
- On Monday last, midway through a Divination lesson, your Daily Prophet reporter witnessed Potter storming from the class, claiming that his scar was hurting too badly to continue studying.†
Chpt 31
- How did she know your scar hurt in Divination?†
Chpt 31
- And unless I'm very much mistaken, Rita was perched on the windowsill of the Divination class the day your scar hurt.†
Chpt 37
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) In the time of Shakespeare, divine was sometimes used as a noun to reference a priest or a person of the church.
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.