Excellent vs Divine - What's the difference?

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Excellent is a related term of divine.

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between excellent and divine

is that excellent is (obsolete) excellently while divine is (obsolete) foreboding; prescient.

As adjectives the difference between excellent and divine

is that excellent is of the highest quality; splendid while divine is of or pertaining to a god.

As an adverb excellent

is (obsolete) excellently.

As a noun divine is

one skilled in divinity; a theologian.

As a verb divine is

to foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.

excellent

English

(wikipedia excellent)

Adjective

(en-adj)

Of the highest quality; splendid.

*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

Exceptionally good of its kind.

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Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.

*(David Hume) (1711-1776)

*:an excellent hypocrite

*(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)

*:Their sorrows are most excellent .

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* excellence * excellently * excellentness

Adverb

(en adverb)

(obsolete) Excellently.

*, New York Review Books 2001, p.287:

Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis , hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].

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divine

English

(wikipedia divine)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) divin, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(en adjective)

of or pertaining to a god

eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.

of superhuman or surpassing excellence

beautiful, heavenly

(obsolete) foreboding; prescient

* Milton

Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, / Misgave him.

Relating to divinity or theology.

* South

church history and other divine learning

Synonyms

* (of or pertaining to a god) deific, godlike, godly * (sense) hallowed, holy, sacred * (of superhuman or surpassing excellence) supreme, ultimate * (sense) beautiful, delightful, exquisite, heavenly, lovely, magnificent, marvellous/marvelous, splendid, wonderful

Antonyms

* (of or pertaining to a god) undivine, ungodly * (sense) godless, secular, ungodly * (of superhuman or surpassing excellence) humdrum, mediocre, ordinary * (sense) horrible, horrid, nasty, unpleasant

Derived terms

* all-divine * argument from divine hiddenness * Book of Divine Worship * * * countenance divine * * divine afflatus * * divine command theory * divine countenance * divine fallacy * divine grace * divine guidance * divine healing * divine inspiration * divine intervention * divine judgement, divine judgment * divine kings * divine kingship * divine lady * divine language * divine law * * Divine Liturgy * divinely * Divine Mercy Sunday * divine messenger * Divine Mind * Divine Mother * divine move * Divine Mystery * divineness * Divine Office, divine office * divine polity * The Divine Praises * divine proportion * Divine Providence * divine ratio * divine retribution * divine revelation * divine right * divine rule * divine section * divine service * divine simplicity * divine spark * divinesse * * divine will healing * * Feast of the Divine Mercy * * indivine * Mother Divine * Revelation of Saint John the Divine * semi-divine, semidivine * * subdivine * * undivine * undivinelike

Noun

(en noun)

One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

* Denham

Poets were the first divines .

A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.

* J. Woodbridge

The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.

God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept

Synonyms

* (sense) clergyman, cleric, man of the cloth, theologian * (a deity) deity, god, God, Allah (Muslim)

Derived terms

* archdivine * school-divine

Etymology 2

From (etyl) deviner, from (etyl) divino.

Verb

(divin)

to foretell (something), especially by the use of divination

* Bancroft

a sagacity which divined the evil designs

* Shakespeare

Darest thou divine his downfall?

to guess (something)

* 1874 ,

no secret can be told
To any who divined it not before

* 1919 ,

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.

* 2005 , .

I suppose that we truly are divining that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are.

to search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod

To render divine; to deify.

* Spenser

Living on earth like angel new divined .

Derived terms

(derived terms) * divinable * divined * divinement * diviner * divineress * divining * divinise, divinize * divinister

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