divine

Etymology 1

From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”). Displaced native Old English godcund.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to a god.
2. Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
3. Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
4. Beautiful, heavenly.
5. (obsolete) Foreboding; prescient.
6. (obsolete, of souls) immortal; elect or saved after death
   (Of that at leaſure) but the bloody ſtage On which to act, Generall this night is thine, 1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age, Part 2
   Then rouſe up, my Divine Soul, who art ready for Eternal Glory, and bid the World a final A-dieu, with all its fond Deluſions and gilded Baits of Folly: For the time is now at hand, when thou my moſt precious Jewel, muſt launch out into the Deep of Everlaſting Bliſs 1703, Charles Povey, Meditations of a Divine Soul: Or, the Chriſtian’s Guide, Amidſt the Various Opinions of a vain World, page 594
7. Relating to divinity or theology.

noun

1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
   Poets were the first divines. 1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning
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. (often capitalized, with 'the') God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.

Etymology 2

Replaced Middle English devine, devin from Middle French deviner, from Latin dīvīnō.

verb

1. (transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
2. (transitive) To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
   no secret can be told To any who divined it not before 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
   I suppose that we truly are divining that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are. 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, 250c
3. (transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
4. To render divine; to deify.