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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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God

God (god)
a. *** n.(?)
God
  1. Good.
    [Obs.] Chaucer.

God

God (god)
n.(g&obreve]d)
God
[AS. god; akin to OS. *** D. god, OHG. got, G. gott, Icel. guð], goð, Sw. *** Dan. gud, Goth. gup, prob. orig. a p. p. from a root appearing in Skr. h&umacr], p. p.
  1. A being conceived of as possessing supernatural power, and to be propitiated by sacrifice, worship, etc.; a divinity; a deity; an object of worship; an idol.

    He maketh a god, and worshipeth it. Is. xliv. 15.

    The race of Israel . . . bowing lowly down
    To bestial gods.
    Milton.

  2. The Supreme Being; the eternal and infinite Spirit, the Creator, and the Sovereign of the universe; Jehovah.

    God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John iv. 24.

  3. A person or thing deified and honored as the chief good; an object of supreme regard.

    Whose god is their belly. Phil. iii. 19.

  4. Figuratively applied to one who wields great or despotic power.
    [R.] Shak.

    Act of God. (Law) See under Act. -- Gallery gods, the occupants of the highest and cheapest gallery of a theater. [Colloq.] -- God's acre, God's field, a burial place; a churchyard. See under Acre. -- God's house. (a) An almshouse. [Obs.] (b) A church. -- God's penny, earnest penny. [Obs.] Beau. *** Fl. -- God's Sunday, Easter.


God

God (god)
v. t.
God
  1. To treat as a god] to idolize.
    [Obs.] Shak.













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