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divineth

divineth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of divine.

Meaning of divine

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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Origin of divineth

divine + -eth

Questions about divineth

What is divineth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Divineth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of divine.

Words near divineth in the dictionary

  1. divineress
  2. divineresses
  3. diviners
  4. divines
  5. divinest
  6. divineth
  7. diving
  8. diving beetle
  9. diving beetles
  10. diving bell
  11. diving bell spider

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