divined

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of divine.

   The old farmer divined the location of underground water with a forked stick.

   From her tone alone, he divined that something had gone badly wrong.

   Note

   One spelling does double duty, as with any regular verb in -ed. It is the simple past (she divined the answer) and the past participle (the answer was divined; he had divined it). Every meaning of divine shares this form: foretelling, intuiting, dowsing, even deifying. So context alone separates a dowser's find from a hunch or a prophecy.

2. 2
   adjective

   Made divine or holy; raised to a sacred or godlike status.

   The newly divined emperor was worshipped at altars throughout the provinces.

   They guarded the divined relic as something untouchable by ordinary hands.

   Similarsanctified, hallowed

   Note

   A participle of the 'deify' meaning of divine, settled into an adjective. A divined emperor is one declared a god, not one guessed at. It is not comparable, so nothing is more divined than another; the status is conferred or it is not. Plain divine describes what is godlike by nature, while divined describes what was made so. In the past-tense form, the 'guessed' reading usually comes first to mind.

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