divine intervention/providence/revelation/guidance etc• Nor did he find any room for divine intervention.• On the one side the appeal was to reason; on the other, to faith and special divine revelation.• One is that devout patients may forgotreatment and wait for divine intervention.• The ensuingsilenceindicated that I had not helped matters. lstared at my Keds, hoping for divine guidance.• And barring divine intervention, also its last.• In the absence of divine intervention, virginbirth for mammals is not an option.• To say that the Church was the soleconduit of divine revelation was to dictate terms to the Almighty.• We thought there was some sort of divine providence which would somehow or other get us away.
1[transitiveT] literaryGUESS to discover or guess something 发现;猜出
divine that
Somehow, the children had divined that he was lying.
不知怎的,孩子们猜出了他在说谎。
2[intransitiveI]RF to search for underground water or minerals using a Y-shaped stick 〔用Y形探测杆〕探测地下水[矿物]
a divining rod (=the stick used for this)
〔地下水、矿物等的〕探测杆
—diviner noun [countableC]
Examples from the Corpus
divine• Together they divined for Charlie's talent.• He had apparently divined from my expression that I was not prepared.• They divined the contents of sealedenvelopes by the simpleexpedient of opening the staples at the other end of the envelope.• Money experts now begin the tricky business of divining the fate of the economy.• Spoken words were not crucial because people should be able to divine the next move.• No one in the twenties could have divined this over-arching design, nor did Poundsuppose that anyone would.• You can still divine water with a rod and be an agnostic.• Others will divine whether the Martins were lucky hobbyists or party stooges.
divine that• With the uncanny prescience of children, they had divined that he was a fake.• I divined that they spoke of the woman who was on trial for her life in Geneva on the morrow.