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The Deity; God; the Supreme Being. The imperial throne Of Godhead, fixed for ever. Milton.

A secret; a mystery; -- generally used in the plural. Inquiries into the arcana of the Godhead. Warburton.

m; united with a body or matter; in the body. For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Col. ii. 9

The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works. They declared with emphasis the perfect deity and the perfect manhood of Christ. Milman.

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.

Bearing the relation of a child. And thus the filial Godhead answering spoke. Milton.

Divine nature or essence; deity; godhead.

lity; -- used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.

ivisibly; as, individuallyhe same. [Omniscience], an attribute individually proper to the Godhead. Hakewill.

Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis. "Three persons and one God." Bk. of Com. Prayer.

ter of Ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead, and that the Son and Holy Spirit are only different powers, operations, or offices of the one God the Father.

He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the one only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures, which he (Swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw the correspondence between natural and spiritual things.

ur, as one born on the fourth day of the month, or one who reverenced four persons in the Godhead. Smart.

The doctrine of the Trinity; the doctrine that there are three distinct persons in the Godhead.

The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality.

The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.

eing three in one; -- an epithet used to express the unity of a trinity of persons in the Godhead.