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m an educational fund or a trust estate. The rich men will be offering sacrifice to their Deity whose beneficiaries they are. Jer. Taylor.

o, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.

Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme regard; godlike.

Likeness to deity. [Obs.]

To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Cæsar was deified.

A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.

A god; a deity; a divine being; an idol; a king.

A deity; a divine being; a good spirit; an idol. [Written also dewata.]

To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition. Feltham.

Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods. "The divine Apollo said." Shak.

The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead. When he attributes divinity to other things than God, it is only a divinity by way of participation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal. Earthings oft her deemed a deity. Drummond.

An avenging deity; one of the Furies; sometimes, conscience personified. [Written also Erinnys.]

A symbol of the solar deity, found on monuments exhumed in Babylon, Nineveh, etc.

t in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light. The chariot of paternal Deity, Flashing thick flames. Milton.

t, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit, good or bad. Cf. Jinnee. The unseen genius of the wood. Milton. We talk of genius still, but with thought how changed! The genius of Augustus was a tutelary demon, to be sworn by and to recei…

hey held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons.

sing supernatural power, and to be propitiated by sacrifice, worship, etc.; a divinity; a deity; an object of worship; an idol. He maketh a god, and worshipeth it. Is. xliv. 15. The race of Israel . . . bowing lowly down To bestial gods. Milton.

A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex. When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty. Addison.

Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence; godhood.