Crossword clues for divining
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.
Divining \Di*vin"ing\, a. That divines; for divining.
Divining rod, a rod, commonly of witch hazel, with forked branches, used by those who claim to be able to discover water or metals under ground by sensing them through such a rod.
Wiktionary
That or who divines (''in any sense of the verb''). n. The action of the verb '''to divine''' in any sense. v
(present participle of divine English)
Usage examples of "divining".
And Mathieu, in astonishment, divining the new emotion that possessed her, though she did not express it, made haste to rejoin: "To let him go his way would be the shortest way to kill him, now that you have begun to give him the breast.
And Norine, instinctively divining the trap set for her, had struggled to escape it, and repeated, sensibly enough, that one ought not to begin such a task when one meant to throw it up in a few days' time.
Charlotte, divining that somebody was behind her, started and raised her head.
Rose, who had grown up near him, knew however that he was her father's preferred assistant, and when he returned to the farm at the expiration of his military service she, divining that he loved her, forced him to acknowledge it.
These were not the magical energies of a wizard he felt, nor the prayers of a divining priest.
It wasn't that he could have done anything about any spells or psionics divining the area, anyway.
Entreri asked Dwahvel at their next meeting, an impromptu affair conducted in the alley beside the Copper Ante, an area equally protected from divining wizards by Dwahvel's potent anti-spying resources.
Kimmuriel and Rai-guy stared at the mirror enchanted for divining, watching the procession of nearly a score of ratmen, all in their human guise, trotting into the village.
These were not the magical energies of a wizard he felt, nor the prayers of a divining priest.
It wasn't that he could have done anything about any spells or psionics divining the area, anyway.
It wasn’t that he could have done anything about any spells or psionics divining the area, anyway.
It had been twenty years since he had attempted the simplest divining spell.
As though divining Grey's wish, Quarry settled his wig more firmly, then took his cloak from the book by the door and swirled it rakishly about his shoulders.
It was far more intense than the kind of Divinings he had experienced before-save perhaps with Andrys Tarrant himself-and he struggled in vain to absorb it all without losing himself.
That there have been great sinful neglects in sparing others, who by their divinings about things future, or discovering things secret, as stollen Goods, etc.