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Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good; as, godlike virtue. -- God"like`ness, n.

That which is the ground of approbation or praise. Good nature is the most godlike commendation of a man. Dryden.

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

Godlike, or of a godlike form. Dr. H. More.

To render godlike. By our own spirits are we deified. Wordsworth.

e us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Shak.

Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir J. Davies. "The divine Desdemona." Shak. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. Prov. xvi. 10. But not to one in this benighted a…

In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. Most divinely fair. Tennyson.

Of godlike energy; inspired. -- En`the*as"tic*al*ly, adv.

r satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use. "Capacity of fruition." Rogers. "Godlike fruition." Milton. Where I may have fruition of her love. Shak.

s; trustworthness; in women, purity; chastity. If she have forgot Honor and virtue. Shak. Godlike erect, with native honor clad. Milton.

so obscured by the writings of learned men as this. Wake. And seest not sin obscures thy godlike frame Dryden.