Definition of "divines" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of divine. (verb)

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• "Cooper makes clear that the authority of the Episcopal divines is more tenuous than the authority of law, embodied in Judge Temple."
• "And as the said Bateman, with all his want of common sense, was really a well-informed man, and well read in English divines, he thought he might incidentally hear something from him which he could turn to account."
• "Their divines will be the worst people under the Heaven; strife will issue from them and avert to them."