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Of or pertaining to a theodolite; made by means of a theodolite; as, theodolitic observations.

Of or relating to theogony.

Theogony. [R.]

A writer on theogony.

The generation or genealogy of the gods; that branch of heathen theology which deals with the origin and descent of the deities; also, a poem treating of such genealogies; as, the Theogony of Hesiod.

A pretender or quack in theology. [R.] Burton.

A theologian. Cudworth.

A person well versed in theology; a professor of theology or divinity; a divine.

Theological.

Of or pertaining to theology, or the science of God and of divine things; as, a theological treatise. -- The`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

Theology. Young.

A theologian.

To render theological; to apply to divinity; to reduce to a system of theology. School divinity was but Aristotle's philosophy theologized. Glanvill.

One who theologizes; a theologian. [R.] Boyle.

A theologian. Dryden. Ye gentle theologues of calmer kind. Young. He [Jerome] was the theologue -- and the word is designation enough. I. Taylor.

The science of God or of religion; the science which treats of the existence, character, and attributes of God, his laws and government, the doctrines we are to believe, and the duties we are to practice; divinity; (as more commonly understood) "the knowledge derivable from the Scriptures, the systematic exhibition of…

One who fights against the gods; one who resists God of the divine will.

A fighting against the gods, as the battle of the gaints with the gods.

A kind of divination drawn from the responses of oracles among heathen nations.

Of or pertaining to a theopathy.