something relating to God. The word is also used, figuratively, for any thing that is excellent, extraordinary, and that seems to go beyond the power of nature and the capacity of mankind. In which sense, the compass, telescope, clocks, &c., are said to be divine inventions: Plato is called the divine author, the divine Plato; and the same appellation is given to Seneca: Hippocrates is called, "the divine old man," divinus senex, &c.