house god
noun
A household god; (in early use specifically in plural) the Roman gods believed to protect or watch over a household, the lares and penates.
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Origin
Mid 16th century; earliest use found in John Palsgrave (d. 1554), teacher and scholar of languages.
- surfacely
- surface mail
- surfaceman
- surface-mount
- surface-mounted
- surface noise
- surface paper
- surface physics
- surface plane
- surface planer
- surface planing
- surface plate
- surface pressure
- surface-printed
- surface printing
- surface process
- surfacer
- surface rib
- surface road
- surface roller
- surface science
- surface scientist
- surface shelter
- surface speed
- surface structure