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 Di·vine, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divined p. pr. & vb. n. Divining.]
 1. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.
    A sagacity which divined the evil designs.   --Bancroft.
 2. To foretell; to predict; to presage.
    Darest thou . . . divine his downfall?   --Shak.
 3. 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.

 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.
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