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deific, a.|diːˈɪfɪk|
[a. F. déifique (1372 in Hatzf.), ad. L. deific-us god-making, consecrated, sacred, in med.L. ‘divine’, f. de-us god + -ficus making: see -fic.]
Deifying, making divine; also (less properly), divine, godlike.
1490Caxton Eneydos xvi. 64 The grete vysion deyfyque that he had seen. 1627–77Feltham Resolves ii. xxxii. 225 Our Saviour..putting all the world in the scale, doth find it far too light for mans Deific soul. 1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. i, That nectarian, delicious..and deific liquor. 1706Motteux Rabelais iv. liii. (1737) 219 O Deific Books! 1816T. Taylor Ess. VIII. 54 According to a deific energy. 1858Faber Foot of Cross (1872) 145 What the hard style of mystical theology calls deific transformation. 1878J. Cook Lect. Orthodoxy ii. 42 Our Lord displayed a degree of being that was deific. |