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unˈdeify, v.
[un-2 6 c.]
trans. To deprive of the status, character, or qualities of a deity.
1637R. Ashley tr. Malvezzi's David Persecuted 119 All sinners in regard of themselves doe undeifie him. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. vi. 121 It is plainly to un-deify him, if I may so speak, and to declare him to be no God at all. 1711Addison Spect. No. 73 ⁋11 An Idol may be Undeified by many accidental Causes. 1789J. White Earl Strongbow I. 93 Modern Nobles who employ their pens in writing down religion, and undeifying their Redeemer. 1845R. Wardlaw in Ess. Chr. Union vi. 307 The acknowledgement of Him undeified all else besides. 1871Macduff Patmos 161 Let us not dethrone and undeify the great Maker and Sustainer.
refl.1675J. Smith Chr. Relig. App. i. 15 They must un⁓deifie themselves, and become no Gods of other Cities, before they are allowed to be Gods in that. 1700J. Asgill Argument 36 God cannot lie without undeifying himself. 1709Brit. Apollo II. No. 44. 2/1 To act contrary to his own..Eternal Essence, and Consequently to Un-Deify himself.
absol.1718Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 353 This would infer a superior excellency in the First, and undeify.
Hence unˈdeifying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1637R. Ashley tr. Malvezzi's David Persecuted 4 It is an undeifying of God. a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) I. 201 When we come before him with undeifying thoughts of him. 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel 271 note, The whole boasted theory then..was at stake, and, with it, the whole undeifying of prophecy. |