Chapter Divided to Divorce of D by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.

The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain.

Zech. x. 2.

2. A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things. Locke.

Divineress
(Di*vin"er*ess), n. A woman who divines. Dryden.

Diving
(Div"ing) a. That dives or is used or diving.

Diving beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle of the family Dytiscidæ, which habitually lives under water; — called also water tiger. — Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from above. — Diving dress. See Submarine armor, under Submarine. — Diving stone, a kind of jasper.

Divinify
(Di*vin"i*fy) v. t. [L. divinus divine + -fy.] To render divine; to deify. [Obs.] "Blessed and divinified soul." Parth. Sacra

Divining
(Di*vin"ing) a. That divines; for divining.

Divining rod, a rod, commonly of witch hazel, with forked branches, used by those who pretend to discover water or metals under ground.

Diviningly
(Di*vin"ing*ly), adv. In a divining manner.

Divinistre
(Div`i*nis"tre) n. A diviner. [Obs.] " I am no divinistre." Chaucer.

Divinity
(Di*vin"i*ty) n.; pl. Divinities [F. divinité, L. divinitas. See Divine, a.]

1. The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead.

When he attributes divinity to other things than God, it is only a divinity by way of participation.

Bp. Stillingfleet.

2. The Deity; the Supreme Being; God.

This the divinity that within us.

Addison.

3. A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.

Beastly divinities, and droves of gods.

Prior.

4. A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man.

God . . . employing these subservient divinities.

Cheyne.

5. Something divine or superhuman; supernatural power or virtue; something which inspires awe.

They say there is divinity in odd numbers.

Shak.

There's such divinity doth hedge a king.

Shak.