Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to divine
Participle: divined
Gerund: divining
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | divine |
| you | divine |
| he;she;it | divines |
| we | divine |
| you | divine |
| they | divine |
Perfect
| I | have divined |
| you | have divined |
| he;she;it | has divined |
| we | have divined |
| you | have divined |
| they | have divined |
Past
| I | divined |
| you | divined |
| he;she;it | divined |
| we | divined |
| you | divined |
| they | divined |
Pluperfect
| I | had divined |
| you | had divined |
| he;she;it | had divined |
| we | had divined |
| you | had divined |
| they | had divined |
Future
| I | will divine |
| you | will divine |
| he;she;it | will divine |
| we | will divine |
| you | will divine |
| they | will divine |
Future Perfect
| I | will have divined |
| you | will have divined |
| he;she;it | will have divined |
| we | will have divined |
| you | will have divined |
| they | will have divined |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | divine |
| you | divine |
| he;she;it | divine |
| we | divine |
| you | divine |
| they | divine |
Perfect
| I | have divined |
| you | have divined |
| he;she;it | have divined |
| we | have divined |
| you | have divined |
| they | have divined |
Imperfect
| I | divined |
| you | divined |
| he;she;it | divined |
| we | divined |
| you | divined |
| they | divined |
Pluperfect
| I | had divined |
| you | had divined |
| he;she;it | had divined |
| we | had divined |
| you | had divined |
| they | had divined |
Conditional
Present
| I | would divine |
| you | would divine |
| he;she;it | would divine |
| we | would divine |
| you | would divine |
| they | would divine |
Perfect
| I | would have divined |
| you | would have divined |
| he;she;it | would have divined |
| we | would have divined |
| you | would have divined |
| they | would have divined |
Imperative
| you | divine |
| we | Let's divine |
| you | divine |
Verbs conjugated like 'divine'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'divine'
divide,
define,
deline,
demine,
devide,
devise,
devive,
diffine,
dine,
dive,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to know something in advance
- anticipate, augur, call, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, predict, presage, prophesy
- predict
- forebode, forecast, prophesy, prognosticate
- suspect
- conjecture, guess
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Replaced Middle English devine, devin from Middle French deviner, from Latin dīvīnō. See: Latin '
dīvīnō'.
Verbs referencing "divine"
Ido divinar.
Sample Sentences
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a sagacity which divined the evil designs [1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:]
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Darest thou […] divine his downfall? [1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:]
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no secret can be told
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To any who divined it not before [1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:]
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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. [1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 43”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:]
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From time to time Mr. Big would have her brought over to the room where Bond had seen him. There she would be told to divine whether some man or woman, generally bound to the chair, was lying or not. [1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 122:]
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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:]
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Living on earth like angel new divined. [1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard,Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier. […], London: […] [Thomas Orwin] for William Ponsonby, […], →OCLC:]