All 3 Uses of
divine
in
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- An hour ago she had declined to go to Meeting, saying airily that she and her grandfather had seldom attended divine service, except for the Christmas Mass.
p. 51.5 *divine = related to God
- In the shadow of his teacher an extra staidness had fallen over the young divinity student, and his smile was lukewarm with dignity.
p. 55.9divinity = related to the study of religion
- The sober young divinity student seemed an odd match for Judith's high spirits.
p. 102.1
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) 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.