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Dreaming in Cuban
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- In the second week of January, Felicia visits a santero known for his grace and power in reading the divining shells.
Chpt 2.10 *divining = used to predict or discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)
- Sister Federica pauses for a long moment, then resumes with an air more befitting a divine vision.†
Chpt 1.2
- Desperate, her great-aunt called a santera from Regla, who draped Celia with beaded necklaces and tossed shells to divine the will of the gods.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- Once she saw my father use the obi the divining coconut, to answer the questions of a godchild who had come to consult him.†
Chpt 2.13
- The diviner of shells shaved her head as everyone chanted in the language of the Yoruba.†
Chpt 2.13
- The babalawos consulted the oracles with all their powers of divination.†
Chpt 2.13
Definitions:
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(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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(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.