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Capacity for religious affections or worship.

Of or pertaining to a theopany; appearing to man, as a god.

A manifestation of God to man by actual appearance, usually as an incarnation.

Pertaining to theophilanthropy or the theophilanthropists.

The doctrine of the theophilanthropists; theophilanthropy.

A member of a deistical society established at Paris during the French revolution.

Theophilanthropism. Macaulay.

Combining theism and philosophy, or pertaining to the combination of theism and philosophy.

Divinely inspired; theopneustic. [R.]

Given by the inspiration of the Spirit of God.

Divine inspiration; the supernatural influence of the Divine Spirit in qualifying men to receive and communicate revealed truth.

One who plays on a theorbo.

An instrument made like large lute, but having two necks, with two sets of pegs, the lower set holding the strings governed by frets, while to the upper set were attached the long bass strings used as open notes.

That which is considered and established as a principle; hence, sometimes, a rule. Not theories, but theorems (Coleridge. By the theorems, Which your polite and terser gallants practice, I re-refine the court, and civilize Their barbarous natures. Massinger.

Of or pertaining to a theorem or theorems; comprised in a theorem; consisting of theorems.

One who constructs theorems.

Theorematic. Grew.

Pertaining to theory; depending on, or confined to, theory or speculation; speculative; terminating in theory or speculation: not practical; as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences. -- The`o*ret"ic*al*ly, adv.

The speculative part of a science; speculation. At the very first, with our Lord himself, and his apostles, as represented to us in the New Testament, morals come before contemplation, ethics before theoretics. H. B. Wilson.

Of or pertaining to the theorica.