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the line where worship ends and witchcraft begins, depending who's writing the dictionary
means Belonging to or relating to a god — heavenly, sacred, supremely excellent — or, as a verb, to discover hidden things by intuition or supposed supernatural insight.
from From Latin divinus, 'of a god, godlike,' rooted in divus, 'a god,' which is a cousin of deus and ultimately of an ancient root meaning 'sky' or 'to shine' — the same bright thread that runs through Zeus and Jupiter. The verb 'to divine' (to foretell or dowse for water) flows from the same source: the diviner was once thought to read the will of the gods, which is exactly how the word ended up straddling the line between holy and uncanny.
- root meaning
- From Latin divus, meaning godlike or heavenly
- to divine
- Also means to predict the future or find water
- divining rods
- Forked sticks still used to hunt groundwater today
- dante's epic
- His Comedy got 'Divine' added centuries after death
- the divine right
- Kings claimed God appointed them, conveniently