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god

See also God, good

(noun)
1. A deity:
  1. A supernatural, typically immortal being with superior powers.
  2. A deity personifying or in charge of a specific matter.
    Poseidon was the Greek god of the sea.
  3. A male deity.
    - Chuck Palahniuk:
      When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.
  4. A supreme being; God, typically in some particular view or aspect.
2. An idol
  1. A representation of a deity, notably a statue(tte).
  2. Something or someone particularly revered, worshiped, idealized, admired and/or followed.
3. (metaphor) A person in a high position of authority; a powerful ruler or tyrant.
4. (notably in Greek/young God) An exceedingly handsome man.
(verb)
1. to idolize
  - a. 1866, Edward Bulwer Lytton, "Death and Sisyphus".
    To men the first necessity is gods; / And if the gods were not, / " Man would invent them, tho' they godded stones.
  - 2001, Conrad C. Fink, Sportswriting: The Lively Game, page 78
    "Godded him up" ... It's the fear of discerning journalists: Does coverage of athletic stars, on field and off, approach beatification of the living?
2. to deify
  - 1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe.
    Then got he bow and fhafts of gold and lead, / In which fo fell and puiflant he grew, / That Jove himfelfe his powre began to dread, / And, taking up to heaven, him godded new.
  - 1951, , Dante Germino ed., The New Science of Politics: An Introduction (1987), page 125
    The superman marks the end of a road on which we find such figures as the "godded man" of English Reformation mystics
  - 1956, C. S. Lewis, Fritz Eichenberg, , page 241
    "She is so lately godded that she is still a rather poor goddess, Stranger.

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