Picture something that belongs to a god — it comes down from above, carries a glow that ordinary things don't have, and seems to know or reach things people can't.
From the word’s history
From Latin divinus 'of a god', from divus/deus 'god'. The same root gives divinare 'to foresee as if inspired by a god', which is where the verb 'to divine (sense, guess)' comes from — so the god-adjective and the guessing-verb are one family.
來自拉丁文 divinus「屬於神的」,字根 divus/deus 就是「神」。同一個根長出 divinare「像受神啟示一樣預見未來」,這正是動詞 divine(察覺、猜出)的來源。所以「神聖的」這個形容詞跟「看出、探測」這個動詞,其實是同一家人:都在講「像神那樣知道人所不知的事」。
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原始詞典資料16 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Divinename
- 1
A surname.
divineadj詞源 1/dɪˈvaɪn/
- 1
Of or pertaining to a god.
- a divine being
- divine existence
- 2
Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
- divine power
- 3
Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
- divine skill
- Divine decadence darling!
- 4
Beautiful, heavenly.
- 5
obsoleteForeboding; prescient.
- Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, / Misgave him.
- 6
obsoleteimmortal; elect or saved after death
- Now Thomas Mowbray do I turne to thee, And marke my greeting well: for what I ſpeake, My body ſhall make good vpon this earth, Or my diuine ſoule anſwer it in heauen.
- (Of that at leaſure) but the bloody ſtage On which to act, Generall this night is thine, Thou lyeſt downe mortall, who muſt riſe diuine.
- 7
Relating to divinity or theology.
- church history and other divine learning
divinenoun詞源 1/dɪˈvaɪn/
- 1
One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
- Poets were the first divines.
- 2
A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
- December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth The first divines of New England […] were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.
- 3
God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.
divineverb詞源 2/dɪˈvaɪn/
- 1
To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
- a sagacity which divined the evil designs
- Darest thou […] divine his downfall?
- 2
To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
- no secret can be told To any who divined it not before
- If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish.
- 3
To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
- 4
To render divine; to deify.
- Living on earth like angel new divined.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。