divinely
divine
verb
 formaluk /dɪˈvaɪn/ us /dɪˈvaɪn/

divineverb (GUESS)

[ T ]
to guess something: 猜，猜测；估计
[ + that ]I divined from his grim expression that the news was not good.他的表情很严肃，我猜不是什么好消息。
divine something from somethingSome journalists even tried to divine meaning from the star's body language during the interview.

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to guess
guessGuess who called yesterday?
estimateThey estimate that the work will take at least ten weeks.
divineMum had divined my state of mind rather shrewdly.
surmiseFrom the expression on his face, she surmised that something bad had happened.
conjectureIt would be reasonable to conjecture that lack of exercise contributed to his obesity.
speculateA spokesperson declined to speculate on the cause of the plane crash.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Guessing, supposing and suspecting
approximate
as muchidiom
call
conjecture
consider
deem
fall
guess
jump
jump to conclusionsidiom
mark
mark someone down as something
misjudge
misjudgment
pluck
presuppose
supposably
surmise
think of something
unguessable

divineverb (SEARCH)

[ I or T ]
to search for water or minerals underground by holding horizontally in your hands a Y-shaped rod or stick, the end of which suddenly points down slightly when water or minerals are below it: （用丫形杖）探测（地下水或矿藏）
divining rod They use forked sticks as divining rods for locating buried treasure and underground water.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Searching
beachcomb
beachcomber
beachcombing
body search
bounty hunter
comb
hunt someone/something down
hunter
hunting ground
keep your/an eye out for someone/somethingidiom
leave no stone unturnedidiom
lookout
needle
rake
scratch around for something
scrounge around
search
seek someone/something out
seeker
troll

divine | American Dictionary

divine
adjective
us/dɪˈvɑɪn/

divineadjective (GODLIKE)

[ not gradable ]
connected with or like God or a god:
divine love

divineadjective (VERY GOOD)

infml
extremely good or pleasing:
The dessert was simply divine.

divinely

adverb[ not gradable ]us/dɪˈvɑɪn·li/
divinely inspired truth

divinely

adverbus/dɪˈvɑɪn·li/
infml
She sings divinely.
divine
verb[ T ]
us/dɪˈvɑɪn/

divineverb[T] (GUESS)

to guess something, or to discover something without being told about it:
[ + that clause ]I divined from his grim expression that the news was bad.

Examples of divine

divine
Again, how 'militarism' was reinterpreted and divined is highly indicative.
Open censorship of such divines was thus not only undesirable, but might not in fact be necessary.
The primal scenes 'are not reproduced as recollections, but have to be divined - constructed - gradually and laboriously from an aggregate of indications '.
Fears were expressed by puritan divines that to thirst after natural knowledge was to run the risk of elevating reason at the expense of faith.
Nevertheless, the majority of divines, though they spoke of sanctification preceding justification, did not mean that one worked for justification.
The injunction that divines keep the pursuit of ancillary studies within proper bounds was not restricted to the domain of science.
Even a cursory survey would reveal that such a solution was adopted by a large number of scientifically-minded divines.
Like their physician and lawyer counterparts, university divines and country ministers might have made time to pursue their secular studies.
Often the answer to a fearsome-looking question can be divined by a little patient thought.
On the one hand, the scientific pursuits of many divines seemed sufficient proof for the harmonious coexistence of science and religion in the minds of practitioners.
As for those divines who did seek publication, they invariably found it necessary to account for their action and demonstrate that their "transgression" was apparent, not real.
Much can be divined about the symbolism underlying naming practice when the names given to children are compared with those of their parents, godparents, family members and other significant individuals.
The boldest and most prominent liberal divines of the 1870s and 1880s tended to be pastors who were less subject to ecclesiastical discipline than were seminary professors.
Indeed, the impossibility of divining from scratch the meanings that another person attaches to their words is more striking on the surface than comparable arguments for syntax.
Perhaps he divines some benefit in the argument he adduced.
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