| comedy ballet | a ballet that stresses the drama with features of comedy |
service religious service
divine service | the act of public worship following prescribed rules, the Sunday service |
| Divine Office | canonical prayers recited daily by priests (e.g. the breviary of the Roman Catholic Church) |
divine guidance
inspiration | (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings, they believe that the books of Scripture were written under divine guidance |
| divine law | a law that is believed to come directly from God |
divine right
divine right of kings | the doctrine that kings derive their right to rule directly from God and are not accountable to their subjects, rebellion is the worst of political crimes, the doctrine of the divine right of kings was enunciated by the Stuarts in Britain in the th century |
Divine Comedy
Divina Commedia | a narrative epic poem written by Dante |
Revelation
Revelation of Saint John the Divine
Apocalypse
Book of Revelation | the last book of the New Testament, contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world, attributed to Saint John the Apostle |
drollery
clowning
comedy funniness | a comic incident or series of incidents |
| comedy | light and humorous drama with a happy ending |
| black comedy | comedy that uses black humor |
| dark comedy | a comedy characterized by grim or satiric humor, a comedy having gloomy or disturbing elements |
farce
farce comedy
travesty | a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations |
| high comedy | a sophisticated comedy, often satirizing genteel society |
| low comedy | a comedy characterized by slapstick and burlesque |
situation comedy
sitcom | a humorous television program based on situations that could arise in everyday life |
| situation comedy sitcom | a humorous drama based on situations that might arise in day-to-day life |
musical
musical comedy
musical theater | a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing |
| revelation divine revelation | communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency |
al-Tawhid
Al Tawhid
Divine Unity | an Islamic terrorist cell that originated in Jordan but operates in Germany, goal is to attack Europe and Russia with chemical weapons |
Godhead
Lord Creator Maker Divine God Almighty
Almighty
Jehovah | terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God |
| divine messenger | a messenger from God, angel of death |
cleric
churchman
divine
ecclesiastic | a clergyman or other person in religious orders |
John
Saint John
St. John
Saint John the Apostle
St. John the Apostle
John the Evangelist
John the Divine | (New Testament) disciple of Jesus, traditionally said to be the author of the th Gospel and three epistles and the book of Revelation |
| divine | search by divining, as if with a rod, He claimed he could divine underground water |
| divine | perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers |
divine
elysian
inspired | being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods, her pies were simply divine, the divine Shakespeare, an elysian meal, an inspired performance |
divine
godly | emanating from God, divine judgment, divine guidance, everything is black or white...satanic or godly-Saturday Review |
| divine godlike | being or having the nature of a god, the custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers-J.G.Frazier, the divine will, the divine capacity for love, 'Tis wise to learn, 'tis God-like to create-J.G.Saxe |
providential
divine | resulting from divine providence, providential care, a providential visitation |
divine
godlike | appropriate to or befitting a god, the divine strength of Achilles, a man of godlike sagacity, man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers-R.H.Roveref |
| divine | devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity, divine worship, divine liturgy |