0 past simple and past participle of divine
1 to guess something:
[ + that ] I divined from his grim expression that the news was not good.
2 to search for water or minerals underground by holding horizontally in your hands a Y-shaped rod or stick, the end of which suddenly points down slightly when water or minerals are below it:
a divining rod
Much can be divined about the symbolism underlying naming practice when the names given to children are compared with those of their parents, godparents, family members and other significant individuals.
I think that it can be divined from the comments that.
I hope that my own frivolity will be divined as having a serious purpose.
However, he has not defined—or divined—that the nature of his consultation may place some people in an impossible position.
We divined that many amendments in the group were consequential.
He, of course, divined the reason for its omission.
The correct answer is the one he divined.
Once the academics get into the number crunching, they will confirm what sensible observers have already divined.