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A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe.
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A deity or supreme being; a supernatural, typically immortal, being with superior powers, to which personhood is attributed.
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The most frequently used name for the Islamic god is Allah.
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An idol.
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Leo Messi is my god!
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A person in a high position of authority, importance or influence.
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A powerful ruler or tyrant.
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An exceedingly handsome man.
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Lounging on the beach were several Greek gods.
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The person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon.
Examples of gods in a Sentence
Surely the gods of chance have favored my brilliance!
The gods couldn't have molded a more perfect woman.
In my fancy the pagan gods and goddesses still walked on earth and talked face to face with men, and in my heart I secretly built shrines to those I loved best.
Gods help the girl, she trusted him of all people.
Gods, but he could smell her sweet scent! Her large eyes seemed to see right through him. He feared reaching out, in case she slid through his fingers like smoke. He'd lost her in life; he wasn't going to risk losing her in his dreams. He could imagine closing the distance between them, sweeping her up into his arms, and making love to her on the beach.
Marillier sacrifice was, at its origin, essentially a magical rite - the liberation by the effusion of a victim's blood of a magical force which was to bend the gods to the will of man; from this arose, under the influence of cult of the dead, the gift theory of sacrifice.
Gods, Rhyn, take a minute to think before you act. What's gotten into you anyway?
The eldest of any of the White Gods to mate, he'd been lauded with celebrations for days upon the announcement that he'd chosen a bride.
More importantly, she had to find out what Jonny's next step was, once the month-long truce between White and Black Gods was up.
The White Gods had a long tradition of finding and mating with Oracles.
Gods, Guardians, and Naturals can pass through, too.
What took two gods and two Original Beings to do in Ireland, Darian had done on his own.
Gods know I've done stupid shit in my life and seen people from all walks of life.
As the White and Black Gods of this earth, you are bound by the requirement to turn the violator over to us.
Darian asked, stepping into the center of the room beside the White and Black Gods.
In his time as White God, the obelisk had been the source and seat of power for the White Gods in the immortal world.
It would take the magic of the Original Beings and Gods to do it.
My gods, Darian, the world is falling apart!
May the gods give you strength, dark lady.
From this point, Xander was able to see most of the city, including the white dome of the palace at its center that marked the home of one of the three Gods that ruled the immortal realm.
Gods, it was better than I imagined!
I will be stronger than all three Gods combined.
One of the Gods tripped the wards he had set around his territory in southern California.
The Black God, Jonny, was one of the three Gods dwelling in the mortal realm.
He had no loyalties to any of the Gods, a fact that rendered him useful to all three of them when they were in pissing contests.
Gods, but he hated Oracles.
The two Gods kept each other in check.
The Gods now knew Xander's intention of claiming her; what they couldn't know was that he was also prepared to walk away, if she made the wrong decision.
His senses picked up on the Guardians and Gods gathered in the red barn.
In later times they were addressed not only to the gods, but to human beings.
The term properly implies a clear polytheistic conception of gods in contrast with men, while it recognizes that some men cross the dividing line.
Theocritus (Idyll 17) hails Ptolemy Philadelphus as a demigod, and speaks of his father as seated among the gods along with Alexander.
In China at the present day many Taoist gods are (or are given out as) men deified for service to the state.
According to the latter, some men may become gods.
According to the former, all gods are but men; or, some men have been erroneously supposed to become gods.
But whether the great gods of polytheism were really transfigured ancestors is very doubtful.
Thus (though earlier Indian and Bactrian coins do not show it) it is found with the gods on some of the coins of the Indian kings Kanishka, Huvishka and Vasudeva, 58 B.C. to A.D.
Violation of the duties of hospitality was likely to provoke the wrath of the gods; but it does not appear that anything beyond this religious sanction existed to guard the rights of a traveller.
To the native Egyptians Alexander appeared as a deliverer from the Persian tyranny, and he sacrificed piously to the gods of Memphis.
Not only is the whole atmosphere Christian in colouring, but we actually find the Greek gods in the guise of Enoch, Elijah, &c., while Philip is a Christian martyr, and Alexander himself a great apostle, even a saint; quotations from the Bible are frequent.
His strongest denunciation is directed against the religious practices of the time in Judea - the worship of the Canaanite local deities (the Baals), the Phoenician Tammuz, and the sun and other Babylonian and Assyrian gods (vi., viii., xvi., xxiii.); he maintained vigorously the prophetic struggle for the sole worship of Yahweh.
Probably he believed in the existence of other gods, though he does not express himself clearly on this point; in any case he held that the worship of other deities was destructive to Israel.
In the Timaeus (41 A) the immortality even of the gods is made dependent on the will of the Supreme Creator; souls are not in their own nature indestructible, but persist because of His goodness.
It is to this period that we must trace such designations of the god as "father of the gods," "chief of the gods," "creator of all things," and the like.
The question, however, still remains to be answered how people came to the belief or to the assumption that through the soul, or the seat of life of the sacrificial animal, the intention of the gods could be divined.
One of the chief names for the priest was baru - literally the "inspector" - which was given to him because of the prominence of his function as an inspector of livers for the purpose of divining the intention of the gods.
By the time the third stage, which placed the seat of soul-life in the brain, was reached through the further advance of anatomical knowledge, the religious rites of Greece and Rome were too deeply incrusted to admit of further radical changes, and faith in the gods had already declined too far to bring new elements into the religion.
He was free, but had to accept monetary compensation for corporal injuries, paid smaller fees and fines, even paid less offerings to the gods.
In Rome the pope gave way to popular clamour, granting one concession after another, and on the 8th of February he publicly called down Gods blessing on Italythat Italy hated by the Austrians, whose name it had hitherto been a crime to mention.
Brahma (n.) is the designation generally applied to the Supreme Soul (paramatman), or impersonal, all-embracing divine essence, the original source and ultimate goal of all that exists; Brahma (m.), on the other hand, is only one of the three hypostases of that divinity whose creative activity he represents, as distinguished from its preservative and destructive aspects, ever apparent in life and nature, and represented by the gods Vishnu and Siva respectively.