divined

Verb

divine (third-person singular simple present divines, present participle divining, simple past and past participle divined)

1. (transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
   • a sagacity which divined the evil designs1834–1874, 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
2. (transitive) To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
   • no secret can be told
     To any who divined it not before1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
3. (transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
4. To render divine; to deify.
   • 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....

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