Plain brewed coffee contains almost no calories, while coffee with dairy products, sugar, and other flavorings is much higher in calories. An espresso has 20 calories. A nonfat latte has 72, while a flavored one has 134.
diviner
(noun) someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers
Source: WordNet® 3.1
diviner (plural diviners)
One who foretells the future.
One who divines or conjectures.
One who searches for underground objects or water using a divining rod.
• (one who foretells the future): foreteller, fortune-teller, prophet, seer, soothsayer
• (one who searches for underground water): water diviner, dowser
diviner
comparative form of divine
• Vidrine, drive in, drive-in
Source: Wiktionary
Di*vin"er, n.
1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2.
2. A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things. Locke.
Di*vine", a. Etym: [Compar. Diviner (; superl. Divinest.] Etym: [F. divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, belonging to a deity; akin to Gr. deus, God. See Deity.]
1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. "The immensity of the divine nature." Paley.
2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. "Divine protection." Bacon.
3. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.
4. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods. "The divine Apollo said." Shak.
5. 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. Sir J. Davies. "The divine Desdemona." Shak. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. Prov. xvi. 10. But not to one in this benighted age Is that diviner inspiration given. Gray.
6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Obs.] Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave him. Milton.
7. Relating to divinity or theology. Church history and other divine learning. South.
Syn.
– Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; preëminent.
Di*vine", n. Etym: [L. divinus a soothsayer, LL., a theologian. See Divine, a.]
1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. "Poets were the first divines." Denham.
2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. J. Woodbridge.
Di*vine", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divined; p. pr. & vb. n. Divining.] Etym: [L. divinare: cf. F. deviner. See Divination.]
1. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture. A sagacity which divined the evil designs. Bancroft.
2. To foretell; to predict; to presage. Darest thou . . . divine his downfall Shak.
3. To render divine; to deify. [Obs.] Living on earth like angel new divined. Spenser.
Syn.
– To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate; forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise.
Di*vine", v. i.
1. To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications. The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah iii. 11.
2. To have or feel a presage or foreboding. Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts. Shak.
3. To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 January 2025
(noun) a slight amount or degree of difference; “a tad too expensive”; “not a tad of difference”; “the new model is a shade better than the old one”
Plain brewed coffee contains almost no calories, while coffee with dairy products, sugar, and other flavorings is much higher in calories. An espresso has 20 calories. A nonfat latte has 72, while a flavored one has 134.