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unˈgod, v.
[un-2 6 b. Cf. Du. ontgoden, G. entgöttern.]
To deprive of the qualities or position of deity; to undeify. (Common c 1640–1740.)
1627Wren Serm. bef. King 17 Feb. 33 All slight and un⁓awful Expressions. Vngodding him no lesse..then does rash and unadvised blasphemie. 1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. ii. 61 Though men cannot come to pull God out of his throne, and un-god him. 1677[see unchristed ppl. a.]. 1708O. Dykes Eng. Prov. & Refl. (1709) 243 Attempting saucily to rival, to insult, or to ungod his Creator. a1750T. Gordon Another Cordial (1751) II. 203 The Jew crucifies his Saviour, the Socinian and Mahometan ungod him. a1834Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1839) IV. 224 A consistent Socinianism..in ungodding the Saviour must deify cats and dogs. 1892Gospel Watchman Dec. 191/1 God..will be dethroned and ungodded before it shall come to pass.
refl.1672Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Rehearsal iv. ii, For fair Parthenope, Gods would, themselves, un-god themselves to see. 1685J. Scott Chr. Life ii. vii. §1 Which would be to destroy his own Being, and un-god himself.
Hence unˈgodding vbl. n.
1656Beake in Burton's Diary (1828) I. 59 It is a crime that deposes the majesty of God himself,..the ungodding of God. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §20. 381 His Ungodding of the Sun, Moon and Stars. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 407 What a horror the Primitive Christians had of the Notions, of Ungodding our Saviour. |