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subdivine

subdivine adjective: imperfectly divine; divine in a partial or lower degree.

Adjective

subdivine (not comparable)

  1. Imperfectly divine; divine in a partial or lower degree.
    • he, that made you, hath given us some little glimpse of your subdivine natures, properties, operations1651 (indicated as 1652), Joseph Hall, “The Invisible World Discovered to Spiritual Eyes, and Reduced to Useful Meditation. […]”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in...
    • The All is a God when the divine Soul is counted in with it; "the rest," we read, "is a mighty spirit and its ways are subdivine."1921, Plotinus, translated by Stephen MacKenna, Plotinus: Psychic and Physical Treatises; Comprising the Second and Third...

Origin of subdivine

From sub- + divine.

Questions about subdivine

What does subdivine mean?
Subdivine means imperfectly divine; divine in a partial or lower degree.
What part of speech is subdivine?
Subdivine is an adjective.

Words near subdivine in the dictionary

  1. subdivides
  2. subdivideth
  3. subdividing
  4. subdividingly
  5. subdividings
  6. subdivine
  7. subdivisibility
  8. subdivisible
  9. subdivision
  10. subdivisional
  11. subdivisionally

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