All 7 Uses of

divine

in

East of Eden

The teacher of Latin was a pale intense young man who had failed in divinity school and yet had enough education to teach the inevitable grammar, Caesar, Cicero.†
Chpt 8

divinity = the state of being god-like; or of being a god

He wrote letters so persuasive that the directors of his divinity school looked favorably on readmitting him.†
Chpt 8

I don't know whether it was a divine stupidity or a great faith that let them do it.†
Chpt 2

When a child first catches adults out—when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just—his world falls into panic desolation.†
Chpt 3

' Do you then not think this is a divine book written by the inky finger of God?†
Chpt 24

I think the mind that could think this story was a curiously divine mind.†
Chpt 24

Definitions:

(1) (divine as in: to forgive is divine)
wonderful; or god-like or coming from God
(2) (divine as in: divined from tea leaves)
to predict or discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)
(3) (divine as in: divined through intuition)
to discover or guess something -- usually through intuition or reflection
(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.