2 to guess something:
[ + that ] I divined from his grim expression that the news was not good.
3 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
4 connected with or like God or a god:
divine love
6 to guess something, or to discover something without being told about it:
[ + that clause ] I divined from his grim expression that the news was bad.
Again, how 'militarism' was reinterpreted and divined is highly indicative.
Open censorship of such divines was thus not only undesirable, but might not in fact be necessary.
The primal scenes 'are not reproduced as recollections, but have to be divined - constructed - gradually and laboriously from an aggregate of indications '.
Fears were expressed by puritan divines that to thirst after natural knowledge was to run the risk of elevating reason at the expense of faith.
Nevertheless, the majority of divines, though they spoke of sanctification preceding justification, did not mean that one worked for justification.
The injunction that divines keep the pursuit of ancillary studies within proper bounds was not restricted to the domain of science.
Even a cursory survey would reveal that such a solution was adopted by a large number of scientifically-minded divines.
Like their physician and lawyer counterparts, university divines and country ministers might have made time to pursue their secular studies.
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