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expect
English
Alternative forms
- axpact, ax-pact (Bermuda)
Etymology
From Latin expect?re, infinitive form of exspect? (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spect? (“look at”), frequentative of speci? (“see”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?sp?kt/, /?k?sp?kt/
- Hyphenation: ex?pect
- Rhymes: -?kt
Verb
expect (third-person singular simple present expects, present participle expecting, simple past and past participle expected)
- (transitive, intransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen
- Synonyms: anticipate, hope, look for
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- And temperatures are expected to keep rising.
- To consider obligatory or required.
- Synonyms: call for, demand
- 1805, Nelson, Horatio via Pasco, John, signal sent at the Battle of Trafalgar:
- England expects that every man will do his duty.
- To consider reasonably due.
- Synonyms: hope, want, wish
- (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
- 2011, Eva Fischer-Dixon, The Bestseller
- “You are pregnant?” he asked with shock in his voice. “Yes, Justin, I am expecting a child,”
- 2011, Eva Fischer-Dixon, The Bestseller
- (obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await.
- Synonyms: await; see also Thesaurus:wait for
- 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 24-25:
- The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To wait; to stay.
- Synonym: wait
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sandys to this entry?)
Usage notes
- Expect is a mental act and mostly has a reference to the future, to some forthcoming event (e.g. a person expects to die, or he expects to survive). Think and believe may have reference to the past and present, as well as to the future (e.g. I think the mail has arrived; I believe he came home yesterday, that he is at home now). There is a not uncommon use of expect, which is a confusion of the two (e.g. I expect the mail has arrived; I expect he is at home). Await is a physical or moral act. We await something which, when it comes, will affect us personally. We expect what may, or may not, interest us personally. See also anticipate.
- This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
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Further reading
- expect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- expect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- expect at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- except
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divine
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)
- Of or pertaining to a god.
- Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
- Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
- Beautiful, heavenly.
- (obsolete) Foreboding; prescient.
- (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.
- (Of that at lea?ure) but the bloody ?tage
- 1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age, Part 2:
- 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)
- One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
- 1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning
- Poets were the first divines.
- 1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning
- 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.
- December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth
- (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)
- (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
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- (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
- no secret can be told
- 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.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
- (transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
- 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.
- 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
Derived terms
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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
- feminine singular of divin
Italian
Adjective
divine
- 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?)
- prophetically, by divine inspiration
- 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
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of divinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of divinar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of divinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of divinar.
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