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physitheism|ˈfɪzɪθiːˌɪz(ə)m|
[f. Gr. ϕύσι-ς nature + θεός God + -ism: cf. polytheism.]
The deification of the powers or phenomena of nature. So ˌphysitheˈistic a.
1891J. W. Powell in Chautauquan Dec. 291 (Funk) Physitheism is the theology and religion of the barbaric world. In this religion the weather-producing agents and the phenomena of the weather are personified and deified. 1889G. Mallery in Pop. Sci. Monthly XXXVI. 208 The prophets tried to pull the Israelites too rapidly through the zoötheistic and physitheistic stages into monotheism. |