Crossword clues for divined
divined
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Divine \Di*vine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divined; p. pr. & vb. n. Divining.] [L. divinare: cf. F. deviner. See Divination.]
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To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.
A sagacity which divined the evil designs.
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To foretell; to predict; to presage.
Darest thou . . . divine his downfall?
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To render divine; to deify. [Obs.]
Living on earth like angel new divined.
--Spenser.Syn: To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate; forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise.
Wiktionary
Made divine, made holy. v
(en-past of: divine)
Usage examples of "divined".
She could not think how to meet the situation, even had she divined what the situation was to be.
She divined in Roberts a cold and grim acceptance of something he had expected.
But she divined when he was thinking what a picture she looked there, on her knees before the bread-pan, with flour on her arms.
And he kept this up until Joan divined that he was not so much interested in what he apparently wished to learn as he was in her presence, her voice, her personality.
She divined that there was antagonism between Gulden and all the others.
Joan divined that Kells buckled on his gun to be ready to protect her.
It was difficult, because she divined Pearce's curiosity held a trap to catch her in a falsehood.
Out of all this complexity of emotion Joan divined that what she yearned most for was to spare Cleve the shame consequent upon recognition of her and then the agony he must suffer at a false conception of her presence there.
She had already seen enough to whiten her hair, she thought, yet she divined her experience would shrink in comparison with what was to come.
Joan divined the vain and futile and tragical nature of Kell's great enterprise.
She divined that Kells wanted her to attract attention, but for what reason she was at a loss to say.
Joan divined that he might yield to her wisdom, he might become a man, but his agony would be greater.
Joan trembled, for she divined what none of these robbers knew, and it was that Pearce was perilously near death.
With all that was left of her spirit she flashed him a warning—a meaning—a prayer not to do the deed she divined was his deadly intent.
Some months previous to this event, he had come in contact with several rough spirits like himself, and by an intuitive faculty and close observation, had divined that they were a part of a regular organised band.