different between divine vs rapt

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?-v?n?, IPA^(key): /d??va?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Etymology 1

From Old French divin, from Latin d?v?nus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”).

Adjective

divine (comparative more divine, superlative most divine)

1. Of or pertaining to a god.
2. Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
3. Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
4. Beautiful, heavenly.
5. (obsolete) Foreboding; prescient.
6. (obsolete, of souls) immortal; elect or saved after death
   • 1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age, Part 2:

     (Of that at lea?ure) but the bloody ?tage
     On which to act, Generall this night is thine,
     Thou lye?t downe mortall, who mu?t ri?e diuine.
7. Relating to divinity or theology.

   • church history and other divine learning

Synonyms

• (of or pertaining to a god): deific, godlike, godly
• (eternal, holy): hallowed, holy, sacred
• (of superhuman or surpassing excellence): supreme, ultimate
• (beautiful, heavenly): beautiful, delightful, exquisite, heavenly, lovely, magnificent, marvellous/marvelous, splendid, wonderful

Antonyms

• (of or pertaining to a god): undivine, ungodly
• (eternal, holy): godless, secular, ungodly
• (of superhuman or surpassing excellence): humdrum, mediocre, ordinary
• (beautiful, heavenly): horrible, horrid, nasty, unpleasant

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

divine (plural divines)

1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
   • 1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning

     Poets were the first divines.

2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
   • December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth

     The first divines of New England […] were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.

3. (often capitalized, with 'the') God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.

Synonyms

• (theologian, cleric): clergyman, cleric, man of the cloth, theologian
• (a deity): deity, god, God, Allah (Muslim)

Derived terms

• archdivine
• school-divine

Translations

Etymology 2

Replaced Middle English devine, devin from Middle French deviner, from Latin d?v?n?.

Verb

divine (third-person singular simple present divines, present participle divining, simple past and past participle divined)

1. (transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     a sagacity which divined the evil designs
2. (transitive) To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

     no secret can be told
     To any who divined it not before

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 43

     If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish.

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 250c.

     I suppose that we truly are divining that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are.

3. (transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
4. To render divine; to deify.
   • c. 1591-1592, Edmund Spenser, Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard, Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier

     Living on earth like angel new divined.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Related terms

• a lo divino
• baculus divinatorius
• divinistre
• Divinópolis
• Divinópolis de Goiás
• La Divina
• lectio divina
• Liposcelis divinatorius
• Salvia divinorum
• São José do Divino
• virgula divina
• voce divinare

Anagrams

• dive in

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.vin/
• Rhymes: -in

Adjective

divine

1. feminine singular of divin

Italian

Adjective

divine

1. feminine plural of divino

Latin

Etymology

From d?v?nus (“of divine origin”)

Adverb

d?v?n? (comparative d?v?nius, superlative d?v?nissim?)

1. prophetically, by divine inspiration
2. divinely, admirably

Synonyms

• (divinely, admirably): d?v?nitus

Related terms

• d?v?n?ti?
• d?v?nit?s
• d?v?nitus
• d?v?n?
• d?v?nus

References

• divine in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• divine in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• divine in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

Spanish

Verb

divine

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of divinar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of divinar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of divinar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of divinar.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin raptus, past participle of rapio (“to seize”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æpt/
• Rhymes: -æpt
• Homophones: rapped, wrapped, wrapt

Adjective

rapt (comparative more rapt, superlative most rapt)

1. (not comparable, archaic) Snatched, taken away; abducted.
   • 1626, Henry Wotton, letter to Nicholas Pey

     From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove.

2. (not comparable) Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
3. (comparable) Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.

   The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.

   • 1851-2, George W. M. Reynolds, The Necromancer, in Reynolds?s Miscellany, republished 1857; 2008, page 247,

     It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind.

   • 1906, Ford Madox Ford, The Fifth Queen; And How She Came to Court, Works of Ford Madox Ford, 2011, unnumbered page,

     Her expression grew more rapt; she paused as if she had lost the thread of the words and then spoke again, gazing far out over the hall as jugglers do in performing feats of balancing: […] .

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     The Rat never answered, if indeed he heard. Rapt, transported, trembling, he was possessed in all his senses by this new divine thing that caught up his helpless soul and swung and dandled it, a powerless but happy infant in a strong sustaining grasp.

   • 1998, Derel Leebaert, Present at the Creation, Derek Leebaert (editor), The Future of the Electronic Marketplace, page 24,
4. (comparable) Enthusiatic; ecstatic, elated, happy.

   He was rapt with his exam results.

   • I […] am rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.

   • 1996, James Richard Giles, Wanda H. Giles, American Novelists Since World War II: Fifth Series, page 139,

     Creatures who navigate long-distance migrations — including the green turtles, wind birds, or great cranes — draw his most rapt commentaries.

   • 2010, Michael Reichert, Richard Hawley, Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys: Strategies that Work—and Why, John Wiley & Sons, US, page 121,

     Even in the most rapt accounts of independent student work, there appears an appreciative acknowledgment of the teacher?s having determined just the right amount of room necessary to build autonomy without risking frustration and failure.

   • 2010, Caroline Overington, I Came to Say Goodbye, page 201,

     One bloke I met in the pub was the owner of the local meatworks. He was rapt to have the Sudanese, and if 1600 more were coming – that was the rumour – well, he?d have been even more rapt.

   • 2012, Greig Caigou, Wild Horizons: More Great Hunting Adventures, HarperCollins (New Zealand), unnumbered page,

     These are worthy aspects of the hunt to give some consideration to with the next generation, because market forces want us to get more rapt with ever more sophisticated gear and an algorithmic conquering of animal instinct.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:rapt

Related terms

• rapture

Translations

Verb

rapt (third-person singular simple present rapts, present participle rapting, simple past and past participle rapted or rapt)

1. (obsolete) To transport or ravish.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 6 p. 89[1]:

     The Bards with furie rapt, the British youth among,

     Unto the charming Harpe thy future honor song

2. (obsolete) To carry away by force.
   • 1819-20, Washington Irving, The Spectre Bridegroom, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., reprinted in 1840, The Works of Washington Irving, Volume 1, page 256,

     His only daughter had either been rapt away to the grave, or he was to have some wood-demon for a son-in-law, and, perchance, a troop of goblin grandchildren.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Daniel to this entry?)

Noun

rapt (plural rapts)

1. (obsolete) An ecstasy; a trance.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Morton to this entry?)

2. (obsolete) Rapidity.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 2nd edition, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Preface,^[2]

     […] like the great exemplary wheeles of heaven, we must observe two Circles: that while we are daily carried about, and whirled on by the swinge and rapt of the one, we may maintain a naturall and proper course, in the slow and sober wheele of the other.

Anagrams

• TRAP, part, part., patr-, prat, rtPA, tarp, trap

Danish

Adjective

rapt

1. neuter singular of rap

Adverb

rapt

1. quickly, rapidly

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin raptus. Cf. ravir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?apt/

Noun

rapt m (plural rapts)

1. kidnapping, abduction

Synonyms

• enlèvement

Related terms

• ravir

Further reading

• “rapt” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• rapa, rapet

Verb

rapt

1. past participle of rape

Romanian

Etymology

From French rapt, from Latin raptus.

Noun

rapt n (plural rapturi)

1. kidnapping, abduction

Declension