Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Divining"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Divine \Di*vine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Divined}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Divining}.] [L. divinare: cf. F. deviner. See
{Divination}.]
1. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to
conjecture.

A sagacity which divined the evil designs.
--Bancroft.

2. To foretell; to predict; to presage.

Darest thou . . . divine his downfall? --Shak.

3. To render divine; to deify. [Obs.]

Living on earth like angel new divined. --Spenser.

Syn: To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate;
forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Divining \Di*vin"ing\, a.
That divines; for divining.

{Divining rod}, a rod, commonly of witch hazel, with forked
branches, used by those who pretend to discover water or
metals under ground.

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