Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God.

synonyms: Almighty, Creator, God Almighty, Godhead, Jehovah, Lord, Maker.

Dutch: godheid
Polish: opatrzność, Pan, Stworzyciel, Najwyższy, Bóg, niebiosa, Stwórca

A clergyman or other person in religious orders.

synonyms: churchman, cleric, ecclesiastic.

Roget 983: theology (natural and revealed); theogony^†, theosophy; divinity; hagiology, hagiography; Caucasian mystery; monotheism; religion; religious persuasion, religious sect, religious denomination; creed etc. (belief) 484; article of faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith, confession of faith.    theologue, theologian; scholastic, divine, schoolman^†, canonist, theologist^†; the Fathers.    ... show more

Roget 996: clergy, clericals, ministry, priesthood, presbytery, the cloth, the desk.    clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter, hierophant^†, pastor, shepherd, minister; father, father in Christ; padre, abbe, cure; patriarch; reverend; black coat; confessor.    dignitaries of the church; ecclesiarch^†, hierarch^†; ebdomarius [Lat.]; eminence, reverence, elder, primate, metropolitan, archbishop, bishop, prelate, diocesan, suffragan^†, dean, subdean^†, archdeacon, prebendary, canon, rural dean, rector, parson, vicar, perpetual curate, residentiary^†, beneficiary, incumbent, chaplain, curate; deacon, deaconess; preacher, reader, lecturer; capitular^†; missionary, propagandist, Jesuit, revivalist, field preacher.    churchwarden, sidesman^†; clerk, precentor^†, choir; almoner, suisse [Fr.], verger, beadle, sexton, sacristan; acolyth^†, acolothyst^†, acolyte, altar boy; chorister.    [Roman Catholic priesthood] Pope, Papa, pontiff, high priest, cardinal; ancient flamen^†, flamen^†; confessor, penitentiary; spiritual director.    cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother, beadsman^†, mendicant, pilgrim, palmer; canon regular, canon secular; Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites; Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite; Augustinian^†; Gilbertine; Austin Friars^†, Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars; Bonhomme [Fr.], Carthusian, Benedictine^†, Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine; Templar, Hospitaler; Bernardine^†, Lorettine, pillarist^†, stylite^†.    abbess, prioress, canoness^†; religieuse [Fr.], nun, novice, postulant.    [Under the Jewish dispensation] prophet, priest, high priest, Levite; Rabbi, Rabbin, Rebbe; scribe.    [Mohammedan etc.] mullah, muezzin, ayatollah; ulema, imaum^†, imam, sheik; sufi; kahin^†, kassis^†; mufti, hadji, dervish; fakir, faquir^†; brahmin^†, guru, kaziaskier^†, poonghie^†, sanyasi^†; druid, bonze^†, santon^†, abdal^†, Lama, talapoin^†, caloyer^†.    ... show more

Dutch: kerkelijk, geestelijke

Perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers.

Roget 514: suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine; theorize; presume, presurmise^†, presuppose; assume, fancy, wis^†, take it; give a guess, speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted; imagine etc. 515.    put forth; propound, propose; start, put a case, submit, move, make a motion; hazard out, throw out a suggestion, put forward a suggestion, put forward conjecture.    allude to, suggest, hint, put it into one's head.    suggest itself etc. (thought) 451; run in the head etc. (memory) 505; marvel if, wonder if, wonder whether.    ... show more

Roget 511: predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate^†, tell fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity; advise; forewarn etc. 668.    presage, augur, bode; abode, forebode; foretoken, betoken; prefigure, preshow^†; portend; foreshow^†, foreshadow; shadow forth, typify, pretypify^†, ominate^†, signify, point to.    usher in, herald, premise, announce; lower.    hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope; bid fair, promise, lead one to expect; be the precursor etc. 64.    [predict by mathematical or statistical means from past experience] extrapolate, project.    ... show more

Search by divining, as if with a rod.

Emanating from God:
— Divine judgment.
— Divine guidance.

synonym: godly.

Roget 976: almighty, holy, hallowed, sacred, divine, heavenly, celestial; sacrosanct; all-knowing, all-seeing, all-wise; omniscient.    superhuman, supernatural; ghostly, spiritual, hyperphysical^†, unearthly; theistic, theocratic; anointed; soterial^†.    ... show more

Roget 983a: orthodox, sound, strick^†, faithful, catholic, schismless^†, Christian, evangelical, scriptural, divine, monotheistic; true etc. 494.    ... show more

Roget 650: perfect, faultless; indefective^†, indeficient^†, indefectible; immaculate, spotless, impeccable; free from imperfection etc. 651; unblemished, uninjured etc. 659; sound, sound as a roach; in perfect condition; scathless^†, intact, harmless; seaworthy etc. (safe) 644; right as a trivet; in seipso totus teres atque rotundus [Lat.] [Horace]; consummate etc. (complete) 52; finished etc. 729.    best etc. (good) 648; model, standard; inimitable, unparagoned^†, unparalleled etc. (supreme) 33; superhuman, divine; beyond all praise etc. (approbation) 931; sans peur et sans reproche [Fr.].    ... show more

Polish: Boski, Boży

Resulting from divine providence.

synonym: providential.

Being or having the nature of a god:
— The custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers.
— The divine will.
— The divine capacity for love.

synonym: godlike.

Devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity.

Appropriate to or befitting a god:
— The divine strength of Achilles.

synonym: godlike.

Polish: boski

Being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods:
— Her pies were simply divine.
— The divine Shakespeare.

synonyms: elysian, inspired.

Polish: natchniony