deificadj.
/diːˈɪfɪk/ Deifying, making divine; also (less properly), divine, godlike.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [adjective]
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theistic1854
the world > the supernatural > deity > [adjective] > relating to deification > deifiying
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [adjective] > according to other attributes
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1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xvi. 64 The grete vysion deyfyque that he had seen.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. i. 3 That nectarian, delicious..and deifick liquour.
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 248 Our Saviour.., putting all the world in the scale, does find it far too light for mans Deifick soul.
1706 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. liii. 219 O Deific Books!
1816 T. Taylor Ess. VIII. 54 According to a deific energy.
1858 F. W. Faber Foot of Cross (1872) 145 What the hard style of mystical theology calls deific transformation.
1878 J. Cook Lect. Orthodoxy ii. 42 Our Lord displayed a degree of being that was deific.
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