† deificaladj.
/diːˈɪfɪkəl/ Obsolete.
= deific adj.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [adjective]
holyc825
divinec1374
greatc1380
sainta1400
divinelyc1400
deific1490
ethereala1522
deifical1563
godly1582
numinous1647
numinal1652
deiform1654
deical1662
sacred1697
theistic1854
the world > the supernatural > deity > [adjective] > relating to deification > deifiying
deifical1563
deific1653
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Sacrament i, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 443 The ancient catholic fathers..were not afraid to call this Supper, some of them, ‘the salve of immortality’..other, ‘a deifical communion’.
1582 in Bible (Rheims) Acts viii. (Annot.) That he might signe them..with the diuine and deifical ointment.
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 237 Those abilities..beget a kind of Deifical Reverence in their future Readers.
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