to err is human; to forgive, divine
Extended form of to err is human
Now thoſe that reach Parnaſſus’ lofty Crown, / Employ their Pains to ſpurn ſome others down; / And while Self-Love each jealous Writer rules, / Contending Wits become the Sport of
divine
UK /dɪˈvaɪn/ US /dɪˈvaɪn/
adj 6verb 4noun 3name 1
Definitions
adj
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
4
Beautiful, heavenly.
5
Foreboding; prescient.
Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, / Misgave him.
noun
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.
verb
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.
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