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- The defense had divined what they could from the notes but...
Chpt 2.7 *divined = discovered
- ...made it probable that it was nothing less than divine intervention by the Almighty on behalf of the cause.
Chpt 2.11 *divine = wonderful; or coming from God
- The whitemen were members of the Yale Divinity School in New Haven.†
Chpt 2.7
- Accompanying the members of the Divinity School into the cells was Dr. Josiah Gibbs, a renowned Hebrew scholar and philologist.†
Chpt 2.7
- He stayed nearly three hours and spoke at length with the divinity students and faculty from Yale.†
Chpt 2.7
- They have been on American soil for less than two weeks, and yet my friends from the Yale Divinity School tell me that many of the blacks have already learned to speak a few words of English.†
Chpt 2.7
- The tribesmen, sitting under guard to the left of their defense team, also sat quietly, although many looked back and forth among themselves, as well as to the Yale Divinity students sitting in the gallery.†
Chpt 2.7
- I will rule, however, that they be kept in preferred incarceration, that the shackles be removed from Mr. Joseph Cinque while he is in lock-up, and that the negroes be allowed regular outdoor exercise and visitors from the Yale Divinity School without barrier or surcharge.†
Chpt 2.7
- He also asked one of the divinity students on hand to record what they would hear.†
Chpt 2.8
- It was decided that Covey would interview each of the tribesmen while the Yale divinity students served as recorders.†
Chpt 2.8
- The rest of the week saw testimony by Josiah Gibbs and other members of the Yale Divinity School's faculty.†
Chpt 2.9
- But I would like to call that man, who is, in fact, one of the Yale Divinity faculty who helped us record the oral testimonies of my clients.†
Chpt 2.9
- A' few days later, when one of the divinity students discovered welts on Grabeau's back, the story of the flogging was told.†
Chpt 2.10
- Later, after they had finished their afternoon exercises on the lawn outside the jail, Singbe sat with Grabeau on the grass listening with the group to a sermon by one of the Yale Divinity students.†
Chpt 2.10
- When the sermon was done, the divinity students split them into groups and began the reading lessons.†
Chpt 2.10
- He agreed with Dr. Gallaudet and others at the Yale'Divinity School that the tribesmen were delivered to America's shores by the Lord God Himself in an act of divine providence so that the full Christianization of Africa might begin in earnest.†
Chpt 2.10
- He agreed with Dr. Gallaudet and others at the Yale'Divinity School that the tribesmen were delivered to America's shores by the Lord God Himself in an act of divine providence so that the full Christianization of Africa might begin in earnest.†
Chpt 2.10
- One of her sons went on to graduate from Fisk College and the Yale Divinity School.†
Chpt Epil.
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.