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God   /gɑd/   Listen
noun
God  n.  
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." "The race of Israel... bowing lowly down To bestial gods."
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."
3.
A person or thing deified and honored as the chief good; an object of supreme regard. "Whose god is their belly."
4.
Figuratively applied to one who wields great or despotic power. (R.)
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.)
God's Sunday, Easter.


verb
God  v. t.  To treat as a god; to idolize. (Obs.)


adjective
God  adj., n.  Good. (Obs.)





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"God" Quotes from Famous Books



... "they were imprisoned during eight long days! They were at the point of death, Nell; and, but for a kind and charitable being—an angel perhaps—sent by God to help them, who secretly brought them a little food; but for a mysterious guide, who afterwards led to them their deliverers, they never would have escaped ...
— The Underground City • Jules Verne
... God!" shouted Venner, crouching to ward off the giant's approach. "Tomlin, Pearse, break for the schooner! I'll hold this savage. We shall perhaps fail; but by the powers of justice we'll go down ...
— The Pirate Woman • Aylward Edward Dingle
... knees where you are; the Holy Virgin is everywhere." Du Marsais was so indiscreet as to interfere. Being a grammarian, he was probably of a disputatious turn of mind. "My good woman," said he, "you have spoken heresy. Only God is everywhere; not the Virgin." The woman turned on him and cried out: "See this old wretch, this Huguenot, this Calvinist, who says that the Holy Virgin is not everywhere!" Thereupon Du Marsais was attacked by the mob and forced to take refuge in a house, whence he was rescued ...
— The Eve of the French Revolution • Edward J. Lowell
... evil o' God Almighty himsen, Thomas Baxter. Henry Hallam was a gentleman to t' bone. He'd hev paid ivery shilling afore this if he'd been alive. Yorkshire squires like their own, but they don't want what belongs to other folk; not they. ...
— The Hallam Succession • Amelia Edith Barr
... it reveals the Rockefeller attitude of mind! Greed crystallized into a practice, dignified into a principle, consecrated into a religion and become a fanaticism. But, mind you, not the dross, but the rule; not profit, but precedent. Money no object, but our laws must be kept. Shylock's god is "Standard Oil's." The ravenous lust for gold that possesses these men is not an appetite, but a fever. In them it is the craving of the tiger for blood. Gorged and glutted with riches, their millions piled into the hundreds, masters of the revenues of empires, ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson


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