Sublime vs. Divine — What's the Difference?

Characterized by nobility; majestic.

Having the nature of or being a deity.

Of high spiritual, moral, or intellectual worth.

Of, relating to, emanating from, or being the expression of a deity

Not to be excelled; supreme.

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

Inspiring awe; impressive.

Superhuman; godlike.

(Archaic) Raised aloft; set high.

Supremely good or beautiful; magnificent

(Archaic) Of lofty appearance or bearing; haughty

Extremely pleasant; delightful

Something sublime.

A cleric.

An ultimate example.

A theologian.

To render sublime.

To foretell, especially by divination.

(Chemistry) To cause to sublimate.

To guess or know by inspiration or intuition

To sublimate.

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

To sublimate.

To practice divination.

(transitive) To raise on high.

To guess.

(transitive) To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.

Of or pertaining to a god.

(transitive) To dignify; to ennoble.

Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.

Noble and majestic.

Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.

Impressive and awe-inspiring, yet simple.

Beautiful, heavenly.

(obsolete) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.

(obsolete) Foreboding; prescient.

(obsolete) Elevated by joy; elated.

Immortal; elect or saved after death

Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.

Relating to divinity or theology.

Something sublime.

One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.

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

Distinguished by lofty or noble traits; eminent; - said of persons.

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

Awakening or expressing the emotion of awe, adoration, veneration, heroic resolve, etc.; dignified; grand; solemn; stately; - said of an impressive object in nature, of an action, of a discourse, of a work of art, of a spectacle, etc.; as, sublime scenery; a sublime deed.

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

Elevated by joy; elate.

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

Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.

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

That which is sublime; - with the definite article

To render divine; to deify.

That which is grand in nature or art, as distinguished from the merely beautiful.

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

To raise on high.

Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.

To subject to the process of sublimation; to heat, volatilize, and condense in crystals or powder; to distill off, and condense in solid form; hence, also, to purify.

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

To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.

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

To dignify; to ennoble.

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.

To pass off in vapor, with immediate condensation; specifically, to evaporate or volatilize from the solid state without apparent melting; - said of those substances, like arsenic, benzoic acid, etc., which do not exhibit a liquid form on heating, except under increased pressure.

Presageful; foreboding; prescient.

Vaporize and then condense right back again

Relating to divinity or theology.

Change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting;

One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

Inspiring awe;

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

Worthy of adoration or reverence

To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.

Lifted up or set high;

To foretell; to predict; to presage.

To render divine; to deify.

To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.

To have or feel a presage or foreboding.

To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.

Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

A clergyman or other person in religious orders

Perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers

Search by divining, as if with a rod;

Emanating from God;

Resulting from divine providence;

Being or having the nature of a god;

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

Appropriate to or befitting a god;

Of such surpassing excellence as to suggest divine inspiration;