Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That divines; for divining.
- adjective 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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- noun The action of the verb to
divine in any sense. - adjective That or who divines (in any sense of the verb).
- verb Present participle of
divine .
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Examples
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* The Friends (Quakers) are much opposed to paying preachers, any certain salary; this is what they call divining for money; yet they make provision for their traveling ministers.
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And they also are the instruments used in divining etiology of illness.
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Joe Leydon: Deconstructionists will delight in divining the influences that inform Weirdsville, a cleverly constructed, capably crafted and often uproarious shaggy-dog black comedy that riffs on everything from Trainspotting and Quentin Tarantino to Race With the Devil and Elmore Leonard.
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She was vexed with herself for her jealousy in divining and her impatience in asking foolish questions; and in her vexation was ready to be vexed with Winthrop, – if she only knew how.
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He had no difficulty in divining who it was: he had now reduced her to the state he wished, and the next morning, whilst Lady Clara in her dressing-room was solacing herself with the new books, and Zoe in her little morning-room was sitting writing, and destroying the paper as fast as she wrote, Mirabeau stood beside her!
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I was inquisitive as to the internal principles of action of those around me: anxious to read their thoughts justly, and for ever occupied in divining their inmost mind.
II.1 1826
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Semantic search, or the idea of divining a user's true intent from how they enter their queries and how Web data is structured, is an unfamiliar concept to the majority of Web surfers who tend to think Internet search is actually pretty good as it is.
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Semantic search, or the idea of divining a user's true intent from how they enter their queries and how Web data is structured, is an unfamiliar concept to the majority of Web surfers who tend to think Internet search is actually pretty good as it is.
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Beyond her divining was the truth that he would much rather have been talking to Starling Tucker.
The Wrong Twin Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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Such Oedipus was I to be -- not divining a word's juggle, but whose agonizing pangs, and sorrow-tainted life were to be the engines, wherewith to lay bare the secrets of destiny, and reveal the meaning of the enigma, whose explanation closed the history of the human race.
III.8 1826
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