dei-, div- +

(Latin: God, god [deity, divine nature])


Dei sub numine viget.
He grows strong in the presence of God.

Motto of Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

deity
1. A god, goddess, or other divine being.
2. Someone or something that is treated like a god.
3. The condition or status of a god or goddess.
4. God in monotheistic belief.
deivirile
A term used in theology that signifies someone who is divine and man (human) at the same time.
divinal
Pertaining to divination; divinatory, magical.
divination
1. The methods or practices of attempting to foretell the future or discovering the unknown through omens, oracles, or by supernatural powers.
2. A prophecy or prediction; soothsaying or augury.
3. A premonition or feeling of foreboding about something that is going to happen.

Divination refers to the methods or practices of attempting to foretell the future or discovering the unknown through omens, oracles, or with supernatural powers; prophesying or predicting the future; and consists of various methods of "fortune telling".

It is the practice of foreseeing future events or obtaining secret knowledge through communication with divine sources and through omens, oracles, signs, and portents.

It is based on the belief in revelations offered to humans by the gods and in extrarational forms of knowledge; it attempts to make known those things that neither reason nor science can discover.

Divination is also described as the art of obtaining special information from spiritual beings. The system takes for granted that the primitive belief that spiritual beings exist, are approachable by humans, have means of knowledge which people do not possess; and are willing, depending on certain conditions, to let diviners communicate the special knowledge which they are believed to possess.

Magic, Divination, and Demonology by T. Witon Davies; London, 1898.

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.

—Ambrose Bierce, Devil's Dictionary
divine: God, god, goddess
1. Being God or a god or goddess.
2. Connected with, coming from, or caused by God or a god or goddess.
3. Connected with the worship or service of God or a god or goddess.
4. To learn or discover something by intuition, inspiration, or other apparently supernatural means.
5. A member of the clergy, especially one who is knowledgeable about theology.
6. God, or whatever else is believed to be the underlying creative and sustaining force in the universe.
divinely
By God or a god or goddess.
diviner, divining
1. A person who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers.
2. Anyone who divines; a soothsayer; a prophet.
3. Someone who searches for underground water, metal, or minerals using something such as a divining rod.
Crystal ball and diviner looking at her broken divination tool.

This diviner can't even see the present much less the future. The financial adviser was seeking guidance for future investments via the crystal ball and may now have just seen a prophecy of a "crash" in the stock market.

Word Info image © ALL rights reserved.

divinipotent, divinipotence
Having the power of divination (fortune telling).
divinity
1. The quality associated with being God, a god, or a goddess.
2. The study of religion, especially the Christian religion.
3. God, a god, or a goddess.
divinize
To deify.
indivinable
Not divinable; incapable of being divined.
joss
1. An image or statue representing a Chinese deity.
2. A Chinese god worshiped in the form of an idol.
3. Etymology: a Chinese figure of a deity, 1711, from Chinese Pidgin English; from Javanese dejos, from Portuguese deus, "god"; from Latin deus.

Colloquially, it came to mean "luck"; then, a Joss stick and "Chinese incense" was first recorded in 1883.

Memento ut diem sabbati sanctifices. Sex diebus operaberis, et facies omnia opera tua. Septimo autem die sabbatum Domini Dei tui est.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God.

As written in the Old Testament of the Bible, Exodus: xx, 8-10 (c. 700 B.C.). Also see Deuteronomy: v, 12.

Nemo tenetur divinare.
No man is bound to divine, or to have foreknowledge of, a future event.

A legal term.


Related religious-word units: church; ecclesi-; fanati-; hiero-; idol-; -olatry; theo-; zelo-.


If there are any numbers below, use them to see other pages in this unit.

Previous 1 2 3 Next

Showing page 2 out of 3 pages of 39 words or word groups.

Back to Index | Search Box | Main Index

The Main-Word Info page

The + sign at the end of a unit title means all of the words in that unit have definitions.

Directory of special content and topics

Do you want to help to make this dictionary bigger and better?

Subscribe to this FREE Focusing on Words Newsletter

E-mail Contact words@wordinfo.info




Google
 
Web Search Word Info Search