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Divine vs. Sacred — What's the Difference?

Divine vs. Sacred — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Divine and Sacred

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Divine

Having the nature of or being a deity.

Sacred

Connected with God or a god or dedicated to a religious purpose and so deserving veneration
Sacred rites
The site at Eleusis is sacred to Demeter

Divine

Of, relating to, emanating from, or being the expression of a deity
Sought divine guidance through meditation.

Sacred

Dedicated to or set apart for the worship of a deity.

Divine

Being in the service or worship of a deity; sacred.
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Sacred

Worthy of religious veneration
The sacred teachings of the Buddha.

Divine

Superhuman; godlike.

Sacred

Made or declared holy
Sacred bread and wine.

Divine

Supremely good or beautiful; magnificent
A divine performance of the concerto.

Sacred

Dedicated or devoted exclusively to a single use, purpose, or person
Sacred to the memory of her sister.
A private office sacred to the President.

Divine

Extremely pleasant; delightful
Had a divine time at the ball.

Sacred

Worthy of respect; venerable.

Divine

A cleric.

Sacred

Of or relating to religious objects, rites, or practices.

Divine

A theologian.

Sacred

Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated, made holy.
A sacred place
A sacred day
Sacred service

Divine

To foretell, especially by divination.

Sacred

Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular

Divine

To guess or know by inspiration or intuition
Somehow divined the answer despite not having read the assignment.

Sacred

Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics.

Divine

To locate (underground water or minerals) with a divining rod; douse.

Sacred

Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.

Divine

To practice divination.

Sacred

Not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.

Divine

To guess.

Sacred

(followed by the preposition "to") Consecrated; dedicated; devoted

Divine

Of or pertaining to a god.

Sacred

(archaic) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.

Divine

Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.

Sacred

Simple past tense and past participle of sacre

Divine

Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.

Sacred

Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred service.

Divine

Beautiful, heavenly.

Sacred

Relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular; religious; as, sacred history.
Smit with the love of sacred song.

Divine

(obsolete) Foreboding; prescient.

Sacred

Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.
Such neighbor nearness to our sacred [royal] bloodShould nothing privilege him.
Poet and saint to thee alone were given,The two most sacred names of earth and heaven.

Divine

Immortal; elect or saved after death

Sacred

Hence, not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.
Secrets of marriage still are sacred held.

Divine

Relating to divinity or theology.

Sacred

Consecrated; dedicated; devoted; - with to.
A temple, sacred to the queen of love.

Divine

One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

Sacred

Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.
But, to destruction sacred and devote.

Divine

A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.

Sacred

Concerned with religion or religious purposes;
Sacred texts
Sacred rites
Sacred music

Divine

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

Sacred

Worthy of respect or dedication;
Saw motherhood as woman's sacred calling

Divine

(transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.

Sacred

Made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use;
A consecrated chursh
The sacred mosque
Sacred elephants
Sacred bread and wine
Sanctified wine

Divine

(transitive) To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.

Sacred

Worthy of religious veneration;
The sacred name of Jesus
Jerusalem's hallowed soil

Divine

(transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.

Sacred

(often followed by `to') devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person;
A fund sacred to charity
A morning hour sacred to study
A private office sacred to the President

Divine

To render divine; to deify.

Divine

Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.

Divine

Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.

Divine

Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.

Divine

Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods.

Divine

Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind.
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king.
But not to one in this benighted ageIs that diviner inspiration given.

Divine

Presageful; foreboding; prescient.
Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill,Misgave him.

Divine

Relating to divinity or theology.
Church history and other divine learning.

Divine

One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

Divine

A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.

Divine

To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.
A sagacity which divined the evil designs.

Divine

To foretell; to predict; to presage.
Darest thou . . . divine his downfall?

Divine

To render divine; to deify.
Living on earth like angel new divined.

Divine

To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
The prophets thereof divine for money.

Divine

To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts.

Divine

To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.

Divine

Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

Divine

A clergyman or other person in religious orders

Divine

Perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers

Divine

Search by divining, as if with a rod;
He claimed he could divine underground water

Divine

Emanating from God;
Divine judgment
Divine guidance
Everything is black1 or white...satanic or godlyt

Divine

Resulting from divine providence;
Providential care
A providential visitation

Divine

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
'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create

Divine

Devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity;
Divine worship
Divine liturgy

Divine

Appropriate to or befitting a god;
The divine strength of Achilles
A man of godlike sagacity
Man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers

Divine

Of such surpassing excellence as to suggest divine inspiration;
Her pies were simply divine
The divine Shakespeare
An elysian meal
An inspired performance

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