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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Divine \Di*vine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Divined}; p. pr & vb
n. {Divining}.] [L. divinare: cf F. deviner. See
{Divination}.]
1. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to
conjecture.
A sagacity which divined the evil designs.
--Bancroft.
2. To foretell; to predict; to presage.
Darest thou . . . divine his downfall? --Shak.
3. To render divine; to deify. [Obs.]
Living on earth like angel new divined. --Spenser.
Syn: To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate;
forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise.
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