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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.

A female demigod.

A goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea.

The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans.

ng to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery. Celestial Dian, goddess argentine. Shak.

The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.

The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.

The goddess of war.

The daughter of Saturn and Ops or Rhea, the goddess of corn and tillage.

Pertaining to the goddess Venus.

ruth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; -- with from or out of. O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times Pope. Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known. Locke. See what regard will be paid to the pedigre…

A goddess. [Obs.] Croft.

A god or goddess; a heathen god. To worship calves, the deities Of Egypt. Milton. The Deity, God, the Supreme Being. This great poet and philosopher [Simonides], the more he contemplated the nature of the Deity, found that he waded but the more out of his depth. Addison.

Behavior; carrige; demeanor; deportment. [Obs.] "Goddesslike deport." Milton.

; fem. of Deva. A goddess.

The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. Pope. Diana monkey (Zoöl.), a handsome, white-bearded monkey of West Africa (Cercopithecus Diana).

To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile. The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace. Spenser.

In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.

Like ebony, especially in color; black; dark. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne. Young.

Aurora, the goddess of morn.