subdivine

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adjective

Imperfectly divine; divine in a partial or lower degree.

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Meanings

adjectivesubdivine (not comparable)
  1. not comparableImperfectly divine; divine in a partial or lower degree.

    he, that made you, hath given us some little glimpse of your subdivine natures, properties, operations

    1651 (indicated as 1652), Joseph Hall, “The Invisible World Discovered to Spiritual Eyes, and Reduced to Useful Meditation. […]”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC
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    The All is a God when the divine Soul is counted in with it; "the rest," we read, "is a mighty spirit and its ways are subdivine."

    1921, Plotinus, translated by Stephen MacKenna, Plotinus: Psychic and Physical Treatises; Comprising the Second and Third Enneads^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Plotinus_(MacKenna)/Volume_2/Ennead_2.3)

Origin

From sub- + divine.

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APA

subdivine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subdivine

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“subdivine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subdivine. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “subdivine,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subdivine.

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