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adjectivedivinest, diviner dɪˈvʌɪndəˈvaɪn 1Of or like God or a god. （来自或像）上帝的；（像）神的 heroes with divine powers 有神力的英雄。 paintings of shipwrecks being prevented by divine intervention 有关因为神的干预而避免了海难的绘画作品。 Example sentencesExamples - Vera tells Lombard that she thinks this whole situation could be a kind of divine retribution.
- Through these rituals they also experience their female bodies as sacred, themselves as divine.
- Yet he recognized that even negative attribution gives some understanding of the divine being.
- It's an almost religious process of divine selection - the elect and the damned.
- I wandered about in my swimming costume for a bit hoping for divine intervention.
- This divine origin made fire a sacred element, and the Greeks maintained fires in front of their temples.
- Sunlight, for instance, often stands in for divine grace or revelation.
- If we are a cult member, it may be a symbol of our sacred relations to the divine principle operating in the universe.
- To the contrary, the expression of our intentions is itself dependent on divine grace.
- To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Yet he was driven by a conviction in sacred, divine principles.
- A habitual contemplation of his divine form, dispelling impediments, blesses a devotee with the kinds of successes.
- They told me that during their abduction there was a meeting with a divine or sacred being.
- This divine origin is particular to the sacred, mystical, and theological insight of the people of Ngaa Rauru Kiitahi.
- Only Jesus Christ, both fully divine and fully human, can accomplish this for all of humankind.
- Evidently this was the limit imposed by divine providence upon that sort of folly.
- We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy nor philosophical opinions into religion.
- York City's push for back to back wins was unhinged by divine intervention.
- A prince could scarcely claim divine sanction for his authority and then exercise it in ways that blatantly contradicted its ultimate source and model.
- Revelation is intuitive knowledge and wisdom about some aspect of nature through divine inspiration.
Synonyms godly, godlike, angelic, seraphic, saintly, beatific spiritual, heavenly, celestial, holy rare empyrean, deiform, deific - 1.1 Devoted to God; sacred.
敬神的；神圣的 神圣的圣餐仪式。 Example sentencesExamples - A book of exemplary wisdom was, therefore, easily more divine than idols.
- Its leader, Ayah Pin, claims to be divine and the ‘boss of all religions’, according to a recent newspaper interview.
- Any authority will do, any divine mission, any sacred fatherland or revolution.
- How could a human being create something so perfect, so divine?
- While religion offered a divine glimmer of human purpose, humanists made that purpose our own.
- Thus, through a process must like Transubstantiation, it'll become simply divine.
- Doni insists, nonetheless, that Michelangelo's voluptuous simulations of sacred bodies are potentially divine in origin.
- Professor Copley pointed out that the secularisation process of RE has taken the divine out of religion since the 1960s and 1970s.
- All persons are sacred, because they partake of the divine, as no animal does.
- On the walls and ceiling, his pen and ink drawings depicted only the divine, the sacred, the holy, and the damned.
- He said that all the religions and great divine personalities always exhorted people to promote peace, love and tolerance.
- A septuagenarian performed the Ganesha dance with all its divine appeal.
- Dance is a sacred movement of the various limbs with deep divine feeling.
- Strokes of the script gain a rhythmic and ritualistic hue as Raju creates divine and sacred forms with them.
- While the Grand Canyon and Zion have an almost divine grandeur, Bryce feels more mercurial.
- But Scripture is not the only source of divine revelation to the attentive ear.
Synonyms religious, holy, sacred, sanctified, consecrated, blessed, devotional, devoted to God, dedicated to God
2informal Very pleasing; delightful. 〈非正式，旧〉好极了的；令人高兴的 he had the most divine smile 他的笑容非常可爱。 Example sentencesExamples - The Cajun butter sauce on my shrimp and scallops was absolutely divine.
- If things work out, you will have a perfectly divine singularity to serve up to family and guests.
- From gangly arm to fleshy middle, it's me: lovely, divine, and supremely perfect.
- Anyway Mr. Hamilton is here and Jenny don't you think he is simply divine?
- For what I had in mind the weather was perfectly divine.
- Evidently, his divine brilliance is too great for mere mortals.
- The flavour of this most wonderful of vegetables is divine, whether steamed, boiled or roasted.
- However, Miss Blanchett as Miss Hepburn was amazingly and stunningly divine.
- I'll have to say that beer is a bit expensive, but cocktails were divine and worth every penny.
- Cocktails were divine and the suggestions spot on.
- They weren't laws that came from some fair or divine place.
- The girl was sitting on a rock in the middle of a divine forest, smiling angelically.
- On one visit, I found trail mix bars that were absolutely divine.
- To watch him as an artist was a truly divine experience.
- In the wings, the divine Edwina smiled on serenely.
- The salmon, served with the usual cream sauce, was described as simply divine.
- She smiled daintily at him and realized what a truly divine time she was having.
- His beautiful date Eanna looked divine in a full-length, figure-hugging turquoise gown, which she bought in Monsoon.
- Only Nightcrawler is utterly divine, well-tuned and perfectly turned.
- They fluttered down, the petals cascading around the guests and the royal family, causing a gorgeous and divine sight.
Synonyms lovely, handsome, beautiful, good-looking, prepossessing, charming, delightful, appealing, engaging, winsome, ravishing, gorgeous, bewitching, beguiling wonderful, glorious, marvellous, excellent, superlative, perfect delicious, mouth-watering, delectable Scottish & Northern English bonny informal heavenly, sublime, dreamy, sensational, knockout, stunning, super, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, great, tasty, fanciable, easy on the eye, a sight for sore eyes, as nice as pie British informal brilliant, brill, smashing North American informal cute Australian/New Zealand informal beaut formal beauteous dated taking archaic comely, fair rare sightly
noun dɪˈvʌɪndəˈvaɪn 1dated A cleric or theologian. 〈旧〉牧师；神学家 Example sentencesExamples - There are also many references to contemporary natural sciences and a healthy smattering of Anglican divines, including Hooker, Andrewes, and Herbert.
- Even the 5 percent of the nation who made up the Catholic recusants succumbed to an intellectual onslaught led by Anglican divines.
- Bishops, in classical Anglicanism, have often been divines themselves-thoughtful scholars as well as administrative functionaries.
- The stereotypical view of Calvinist divines has them all nodding their heads in a ringing ‘yes, indeed.’
- Spinks refers briefly to and quotes the work of forty-four English and twenty Scottish divines of the period after 1603.
Synonyms theologian, clergyman, member of the clergy, churchman, churchwoman, cleric, ecclesiastic, man of the cloth, man of God, holy man, holy woman, preacher, priest Scottish kirkman informal reverend, Holy Joe, sky pilot Australian informal josser 2Providence or God. 天意；上帝 Example sentencesExamples - After all, the Divine made you the way that They wanted.
- This is how we are made in the image of the Divine.
- After all, the Divine is an all-encompassing entity.
- Would you associate him with Prometheus or Metatron, is he on the side of Man or the Divine?
- The mythology of a religion tends to reflect the covenant between the followers of a religion and the Divine.
Derivativesnoun This is what gives the relationship, the shape of enduring divineness. Example sentencesExamples - A blue mist swept through the room, but in the blink of an eye, it was gone, leaving nothing in its wake but a feeling of divineness.
- It makes room for some of that divineness to enter.
- Let these ditties of divineness be a something extra kind of special treat.
OriginLate Middle English: via Old French from Latin divinus, from divus 'godlike' (related to deus 'god'). Divine ‘godlike’ came via Old French from Latin divinus, from divus ‘godlike’ (related to deus ‘god’, source of Middle English deify). The gradual weakening of the word to a general term of praise, which started in the late 15th century, can be compared with ‘heavenly’. The phrase the divine right of kings stating that legitimate kings derive their power from God alone, came into specific use in the 17th century under the Stuart kings.
Rhymesalign, assign, benign, brine, chine, cline, combine, condign, confine, consign, dine, dyne, enshrine, entwine, fine, frontline, hardline, interline, intertwine, kine, Klein, line, Main, malign, mine, moline, nine, on-line, opine, outshine, pine, Rhein, Rhine, shine, shrine, sign, sine, spine, spline, stein, Strine, swine, syne, thine, tine, trine, twine, Tyne, underline, undermine, vine, whine, wine verb dɪˈvʌɪndəˈvaɪn [with object]1Discover (something) by guesswork or intuition. （凭直觉）猜测；发现 mum had divined my state of mind 妈妈猜出了我的心思。 with clause they had divined that he was a fake 他们察觉他是个骗子。 Example sentencesExamples - I hadn't correctly divined your attitude towards your tenants.
- The job basically was to follow the daily open market operations of the Fed and try to divine whether policy had changed.
- And I wasn't able to divine what that magic ingredient was exactly.
- She has had remarkable success in divining those names.
- They are points of god-contact, sites and occasions for divining in a much broader sense.
- Two shrewd commentators of the late 1940s had already divined that at least some Rorschach wizards achieved their success by resorting to tricks.
- The reader is not supposed to have to divine the meaning that lies behind the ramblings and jottings of the writer.
- In the other, a Latino man had written to Grant to tell him that about his brother's problems, which Grant proceeded to divine at the meeting.
- At the start of each project, he strives to divine the ‘voice of the site.’
- When the BBC lost transmission midway through the second half, it was hard to divine whether this was a technical fault or quality control.
- Chen, the temple's caretaker, spent months divining what images, scenes and poems should canopy worshippers.
- When we divine the future we do so in the hope that we can profit from the knowledge.
- Let's try to start divining some answers this week by taking a look at the potential contenders for this season's Larry O'Brien trophy.
- For a while they simply stared at each other, as if sizing up the opposition, divining out points of weakness.
- I tried to divine an intention from her message.
- But, as Maurice Newman correctly divined, if you don't like the situation, don't stay around.
- But he does have a sure touch for divining politicians' larger strategic patterns.
- The paradox is that on the only point of principle which I think one can divine from my judgment, you were successful.
- The path all of this takes is easily divined, although the ending is not.
- Sometimes we discover we have ‘made’ an interpretation without realising it, on other occasions we struggle to articulate what it is we have divined.
Synonyms guess, surmise, conjecture, suspect, suppose, assume, presume, deduce, infer, work out, theorize, hypothesize discern, intuit, perceive, recognize, see, realize, appreciate, understand, grasp, apprehend, comprehend North American figure informal figure out, latch on to, cotton on to, catch on to, tumble to, get, get the picture British informal twig, suss North American informal savvy rare cognize 2Have supernatural or magical insight into (future events) 占卜；预测 frauds who claimed to divine the future in chickens' entrails 声称可以通过鸡的内脏占卜未来的骗子。 Example sentencesExamples - Though I am not proposing the actual use of Tarot cards as a means of divining past or future events, what, exactly, would the limits be for non-natural explanations?
- When not divining the crowd's thoughts, he dives into the city's psyche, through anthropomorphizing metaphors.
- One form of magic that many of us do quite often is divining.
- Once this meaning or purpose has been divined, then the past, present, and future can be seen as conforming to some kind of structure or shape.
- The elimination of these Christians, the augur would claim, could restore his divining powers and help the emperor.
- Black cats were considered to be reincarnated beings with the ability to divine the future.
- Seeing the king, Samudra divined that the time had come for Ashoka's conversion.
- Do Warren and Pearson suggest that lenders are clairvoyants who can divine what direction prices will take in future years?
- And from this alleged mutter, trained exegetes in the press are now divining the entire political infrastructure of the Vatican.
- We must be given time and space away from the hordes to divine the future.
- This ‘rationalisation’ of divining pointed to the dialectical nature of the ideological contest between folk and scientific wisdom.
- In ancient Rome, emperors would divine truth by reading the entrails of animals or vanquished foes.
- It's sad that 450 years later we still have to go over similar arguments with those who believe that divining works.
- The profiler is about the equivalent of somebody who divines jackal tracks with a broken twig.
- In addition, experts with specialized knowledge may perform specific tasks related to healing, building, or divining.
- They called them sorceresses or ‘people who divined by the spirit.’
Synonyms foretell, predict, prophesy, forecast, foresee, prognosticate forewarn, forebode archaic previse, presage, foreshow, croak Scottish archaic spae rare vaticinate, auspicate - 2.1 Discover (water) by dowsing.
（通过探矿术）发现（水源） he showed him how to divine water Example sentencesExamples - Talking of which, I discovered a talent yesterday I didn't know I had… water divining!
- The affront of water divining to the latter's modernist pretensions led to foreign experts being pressed into the fray, but to no avail.
- It is no relation at all to native hazel, but like hazel the settlers found its forked branches ideal for water divining.
- The example of water divining in southern Africa, however, suggests that the irrational was as much a feature of western as indigenous knowledge systems.
- Some rabbit babies get dirty in a mud puddle but the day is saved when Tag finds a cleansing spring of water by divining with a hazel twig.
- Afterwards explore the grounds to find underground water and other aspects of divining.
- The only way to get a really good signal is to wander around with the antenna stretched out, as if you're divining for water.
- Like a divining stick, the football seemingly found the water at every opportunity.
- Thus, after more than a decade of denouncing water divining, the state belatedly sought to harness it to hydraulic development.
- Of course, a simple double-blind test can be applied to any claims of divining or dowsing powers.
- How frogs locate water remains unknown, they seem to have a special water divining sense.
- Dowsing and divining water is the subject of the club's talk today.
- He says, ‘Water divining involves the static electrical and magnetic powers of the body.’
- They've been divining water, fruit, music and happiness together ever since.
- Others test him by bringing in unlikely objects for him to divine at the show's finale.
Derivativesnoun dɪˈvʌɪnədəˈvaɪnər When this happens, the help of a diviner or herbalist is sought. Example sentencesExamples - It was here in the 19th century that the famous Xhosa prophet and diviner Nxele attempted a resurrection.
- A number of people are recognized as clairvoyants and diviners, working sometimes within and sometimes outside the Christian churches.
- Every decision surrounding the production was made after Norbu carefully consulted with yogis, oracles and diviners.
- They ask soothsayers and diviners to find out the cause of problems and to suggest remedies.
Synonyms fortune teller, clairvoyant, crystal gazer, visionary, psychic, seer, soothsayer, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, prophetess, oracle, sibyl, sage, wise man, wise woman Scottish spaewife, spaeman rare oracler, vaticinator, haruspex
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French deviner 'predict', from Latin divinare, from divinus (see divine1). adjectivedəˈvīndəˈvaɪn 1Of, from, or like God or a god. （来自或像）上帝的；（像）神的 heroes with divine powers 有神力的英雄。 paintings of shipwrecks being prevented by divine intervention 有关因为神的干预而避免了海难的绘画作品。 Example sentencesExamples - Vera tells Lombard that she thinks this whole situation could be a kind of divine retribution.
- It's an almost religious process of divine selection - the elect and the damned.
- Yet he recognized that even negative attribution gives some understanding of the divine being.
- This divine origin is particular to the sacred, mystical, and theological insight of the people of Ngaa Rauru Kiitahi.
- We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy nor philosophical opinions into religion.
- They told me that during their abduction there was a meeting with a divine or sacred being.
- Only Jesus Christ, both fully divine and fully human, can accomplish this for all of humankind.
- Sunlight, for instance, often stands in for divine grace or revelation.
- If we are a cult member, it may be a symbol of our sacred relations to the divine principle operating in the universe.
- A prince could scarcely claim divine sanction for his authority and then exercise it in ways that blatantly contradicted its ultimate source and model.
- Yet he was driven by a conviction in sacred, divine principles.
- Revelation is intuitive knowledge and wisdom about some aspect of nature through divine inspiration.
- Through these rituals they also experience their female bodies as sacred, themselves as divine.
- To the contrary, the expression of our intentions is itself dependent on divine grace.
- Evidently this was the limit imposed by divine providence upon that sort of folly.
- York City's push for back to back wins was unhinged by divine intervention.
- To err is human, to forgive divine.
- I wandered about in my swimming costume for a bit hoping for divine intervention.
- A habitual contemplation of his divine form, dispelling impediments, blesses a devotee with the kinds of successes.
- This divine origin made fire a sacred element, and the Greeks maintained fires in front of their temples.
Synonyms godly, godlike, angelic, seraphic, saintly, beatific - 1.1 Devoted to God; sacred.
敬神的；神圣的 神圣的圣餐仪式。 Example sentencesExamples - A septuagenarian performed the Ganesha dance with all its divine appeal.
- All persons are sacred, because they partake of the divine, as no animal does.
- Doni insists, nonetheless, that Michelangelo's voluptuous simulations of sacred bodies are potentially divine in origin.
- Dance is a sacred movement of the various limbs with deep divine feeling.
- Strokes of the script gain a rhythmic and ritualistic hue as Raju creates divine and sacred forms with them.
- Its leader, Ayah Pin, claims to be divine and the ‘boss of all religions’, according to a recent newspaper interview.
- Professor Copley pointed out that the secularisation process of RE has taken the divine out of religion since the 1960s and 1970s.
- How could a human being create something so perfect, so divine?
- Any authority will do, any divine mission, any sacred fatherland or revolution.
- On the walls and ceiling, his pen and ink drawings depicted only the divine, the sacred, the holy, and the damned.
- He said that all the religions and great divine personalities always exhorted people to promote peace, love and tolerance.
- Thus, through a process must like Transubstantiation, it'll become simply divine.
- But Scripture is not the only source of divine revelation to the attentive ear.
- A book of exemplary wisdom was, therefore, easily more divine than idols.
- While the Grand Canyon and Zion have an almost divine grandeur, Bryce feels more mercurial.
- While religion offered a divine glimmer of human purpose, humanists made that purpose our own.
Synonyms religious, holy, sacred, sanctified, consecrated, blessed, devotional, devoted to god, dedicated to god
2informal Excellent; delightful. 〈非正式，旧〉好极了的；令人高兴的 he had the most divine smile 他的笑容非常可爱。 that succulent clementine tasted divine 多汁的柑橘尝起来味道好极了。 Example sentencesExamples - On one visit, I found trail mix bars that were absolutely divine.
- She smiled daintily at him and realized what a truly divine time she was having.
- The Cajun butter sauce on my shrimp and scallops was absolutely divine.
- If things work out, you will have a perfectly divine singularity to serve up to family and guests.
- Only Nightcrawler is utterly divine, well-tuned and perfectly turned.
- They weren't laws that came from some fair or divine place.
- However, Miss Blanchett as Miss Hepburn was amazingly and stunningly divine.
- For what I had in mind the weather was perfectly divine.
- Anyway Mr. Hamilton is here and Jenny don't you think he is simply divine?
- Cocktails were divine and the suggestions spot on.
- Evidently, his divine brilliance is too great for mere mortals.
- They fluttered down, the petals cascading around the guests and the royal family, causing a gorgeous and divine sight.
- His beautiful date Eanna looked divine in a full-length, figure-hugging turquoise gown, which she bought in Monsoon.
- From gangly arm to fleshy middle, it's me: lovely, divine, and supremely perfect.
- I'll have to say that beer is a bit expensive, but cocktails were divine and worth every penny.
- The flavour of this most wonderful of vegetables is divine, whether steamed, boiled or roasted.
- To watch him as an artist was a truly divine experience.
- The girl was sitting on a rock in the middle of a divine forest, smiling angelically.
- The salmon, served with the usual cream sauce, was described as simply divine.
- In the wings, the divine Edwina smiled on serenely.
Synonyms lovely, handsome, beautiful, good-looking, prepossessing, charming, delightful, appealing, engaging, winsome, ravishing, gorgeous, bewitching, beguiling
noundəˈvīndəˈvaɪn 1dated A cleric or theologian. 〈旧〉牧师；神学家 Example sentencesExamples - Even the 5 percent of the nation who made up the Catholic recusants succumbed to an intellectual onslaught led by Anglican divines.
- There are also many references to contemporary natural sciences and a healthy smattering of Anglican divines, including Hooker, Andrewes, and Herbert.
- The stereotypical view of Calvinist divines has them all nodding their heads in a ringing ‘yes, indeed.’
- Bishops, in classical Anglicanism, have often been divines themselves-thoughtful scholars as well as administrative functionaries.
- Spinks refers briefly to and quotes the work of forty-four English and twenty Scottish divines of the period after 1603.
Synonyms theologian, clergyman, member of the clergy, churchman, churchwoman, cleric, ecclesiastic, man of the cloth, man of god, holy man, holy woman, preacher, priest 2the DivineProvidence or God. 天意；上帝 Example sentencesExamples - After all, the Divine is an all-encompassing entity.
- Would you associate him with Prometheus or Metatron, is he on the side of Man or the Divine?
- The mythology of a religion tends to reflect the covenant between the followers of a religion and the Divine.
- After all, the Divine made you the way that They wanted.
- This is how we are made in the image of the Divine.
OriginLate Middle English: via Old French from Latin divinus, from divus ‘godlike’ (related to deus ‘god’). verbdəˈvīndəˈvaɪn [with object]1Discover (something) by guesswork or intuition. （凭直觉）猜测；发现 his brother usually divined his ulterior motives with clause they had divined that he was a fake 他们察觉他是个骗子。 Example sentencesExamples - In the other, a Latino man had written to Grant to tell him that about his brother's problems, which Grant proceeded to divine at the meeting.
- Two shrewd commentators of the late 1940s had already divined that at least some Rorschach wizards achieved their success by resorting to tricks.
- The reader is not supposed to have to divine the meaning that lies behind the ramblings and jottings of the writer.
- Let's try to start divining some answers this week by taking a look at the potential contenders for this season's Larry O'Brien trophy.
- When we divine the future we do so in the hope that we can profit from the knowledge.
- She has had remarkable success in divining those names.
- The path all of this takes is easily divined, although the ending is not.
- I hadn't correctly divined your attitude towards your tenants.
- But he does have a sure touch for divining politicians' larger strategic patterns.
- For a while they simply stared at each other, as if sizing up the opposition, divining out points of weakness.
- When the BBC lost transmission midway through the second half, it was hard to divine whether this was a technical fault or quality control.
- The paradox is that on the only point of principle which I think one can divine from my judgment, you were successful.
- Sometimes we discover we have ‘made’ an interpretation without realising it, on other occasions we struggle to articulate what it is we have divined.
- But, as Maurice Newman correctly divined, if you don't like the situation, don't stay around.
- The job basically was to follow the daily open market operations of the Fed and try to divine whether policy had changed.
- I tried to divine an intention from her message.
- They are points of god-contact, sites and occasions for divining in a much broader sense.
- At the start of each project, he strives to divine the ‘voice of the site.’
- And I wasn't able to divine what that magic ingredient was exactly.
- Chen, the temple's caretaker, spent months divining what images, scenes and poems should canopy worshippers.
Synonyms guess, surmise, conjecture, suspect, suppose, assume, presume, deduce, infer, work out, theorize, hypothesize - 1.1 Have supernatural or magical insight into (future events)
占卜；预测 frauds who claimed to divine the future in chickens' entrails 声称可以通过鸡的内脏占卜未来的骗子。 Example sentencesExamples - In ancient Rome, emperors would divine truth by reading the entrails of animals or vanquished foes.
- One form of magic that many of us do quite often is divining.
- We must be given time and space away from the hordes to divine the future.
- Do Warren and Pearson suggest that lenders are clairvoyants who can divine what direction prices will take in future years?
- The elimination of these Christians, the augur would claim, could restore his divining powers and help the emperor.
- When not divining the crowd's thoughts, he dives into the city's psyche, through anthropomorphizing metaphors.
- Once this meaning or purpose has been divined, then the past, present, and future can be seen as conforming to some kind of structure or shape.
- The profiler is about the equivalent of somebody who divines jackal tracks with a broken twig.
- Though I am not proposing the actual use of Tarot cards as a means of divining past or future events, what, exactly, would the limits be for non-natural explanations?
- In addition, experts with specialized knowledge may perform specific tasks related to healing, building, or divining.
- And from this alleged mutter, trained exegetes in the press are now divining the entire political infrastructure of the Vatican.
- Black cats were considered to be reincarnated beings with the ability to divine the future.
- Seeing the king, Samudra divined that the time had come for Ashoka's conversion.
- This ‘rationalisation’ of divining pointed to the dialectical nature of the ideological contest between folk and scientific wisdom.
- It's sad that 450 years later we still have to go over similar arguments with those who believe that divining works.
- They called them sorceresses or ‘people who divined by the spirit.’
Synonyms foretell, predict, prophesy, forecast, foresee, prognosticate - 1.2 Discover (water) by dowsing.
（通过探矿术）发现（水源） Example sentencesExamples - The affront of water divining to the latter's modernist pretensions led to foreign experts being pressed into the fray, but to no avail.
- It is no relation at all to native hazel, but like hazel the settlers found its forked branches ideal for water divining.
- Thus, after more than a decade of denouncing water divining, the state belatedly sought to harness it to hydraulic development.
- Dowsing and divining water is the subject of the club's talk today.
- The only way to get a really good signal is to wander around with the antenna stretched out, as if you're divining for water.
- Talking of which, I discovered a talent yesterday I didn't know I had… water divining!
- They've been divining water, fruit, music and happiness together ever since.
- Of course, a simple double-blind test can be applied to any claims of divining or dowsing powers.
- He says, ‘Water divining involves the static electrical and magnetic powers of the body.’
- Some rabbit babies get dirty in a mud puddle but the day is saved when Tag finds a cleansing spring of water by divining with a hazel twig.
- The example of water divining in southern Africa, however, suggests that the irrational was as much a feature of western as indigenous knowledge systems.
- Afterwards explore the grounds to find underground water and other aspects of divining.
- Others test him by bringing in unlikely objects for him to divine at the show's finale.
- Like a divining stick, the football seemingly found the water at every opportunity.
- How frogs locate water remains unknown, they seem to have a special water divining sense.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French deviner ‘predict’, from Latin divinare, from divinus (see divine). |