Deity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Deity \De"i*ty\ (d[=e]"[i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl. {Deities}
     (d[=e]"[i^]*t[i^]z). [OE. deite, F. d['e]it['e], fr. L.
     deitas, fr. deus a god; akin to divus divine, Jupiter, gen.
     Jovis, Jupiter, dies day, Gr. di^os divine, Zey`s, gen.
     Dio`s, Zeus, Skr. d[=e]va divine, as a noun, god, daiva
     divine, dy[=o] sky, day, hence, the sky personified as a god,


     and to the first syllable of E. Tuesday, Gael. & Ir. dia God,
     W. duw. Cf. {Divine}, {Journey}, {Journal}, {Tuesday}.]
     1. The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a
        god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being
        is seen in his works.
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              They declared with emphasis the perfect deity and
              the perfect manhood of Christ.        --Milman.
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     2. A god or goddess; a heathen god.
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              To worship calves, the deities
              Of Egypt.                             --Milton.
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     {The Deity}, God, the Supreme Being.
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              This great poet and philosopher [Simonides], the
              more he contemplated the nature of the Deity, found
              that he waded but the more out of his depth.
                                                    --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  deity
       n : any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part
           of the world or some aspect of life or who is the
           personification of a force [syn: {divinity}, {god}, {immortal}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  304 Moby Thesaurus words for "deity":
     Aides, Aidoneus, Amen-Ra, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo,
     Apollo Musagetes, Ares, Artemis, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Astraea,
     Athena, Atropos, Baal, Bellona, Bragi, Cailleac, Calliope,
     Castilian Spring, Cerberus, Ceres, Charon, Clio, Clotho, Cora,
     Cupid, Cynthia, Dame Fortune, Davy, Davy Jones, Decuma, Demeter,
     Despoina, Diana, Dike, Dionysos, Dionysus, Dis, Dis pater,
     Discordia, Donar, Dylan, Earth, Enyo, Erato, Erebus, Eris, Eros,
     Euterpe, Fata, Fates, Faunus, Flora, Fortuna, Frey, Freya, Frigg,
     Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Hades, Heaven, Hecate, Hekate, Hel, Helicon,
     Helios, Hera, Hermes, Hestia, Hippocrene, Hymen, Hyperion, Indra,
     Isis, Juno, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Pluvius,
     Jupiter Tonans, Justice, Justitia, Kama, Kore, Lachesis, Loki,
     Love, Luna, Mars, Melpomene, Mercury, Minerva, Minos, Moirai,
     Morta, Muse, Nemesis, Neptune, Nereid, Nereus, Nona, Norns,
     Oceanid, Oceanus, Odin, Orcus, Osiris, Pan, Parcae, Parnassus,
     Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebe, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo,
     Pierian Spring, Pierides, Pluto, Polyhymnia, Pomona, Poseidon,
     Priapus, Pronuba, Proserpina, Proserpine, Providence, Ra,
     Rhadamanthus, Satan, Savitar, Selene, Set, Shamash, Skuld, Sol,
     Surya, Teleia, Tellus, Terpsichore, Terra, Thalia, Themis, Thetis,
     Thor, Titan, Tiu, Triptolemos, Triptolemus, Triton, Tyche, Typhon,
     Tyr, Urdur, Varuna, Vayu, Venus, Verthandi, Vesta, Vidar, Vitharr,
     Weird Sisters, Weirds, Woden, Wotan, Zephyr, Zephyrus, Zeus,
     afflatus, artistic imagination, ball lightning, biosphere,
     blindfolded Justice, bolt, bolt of lightning, chain lightning,
     clash, clashing, commercialism, conception, conflict, contention,
     corn god, corn spirit, creative imagination, creative power,
     creative thought, creator, dark lightning, deep, demigod,
     demigoddess, disaccord, disaffinity, discord, discordance,
     discordancy, disharmony, dread rattling thunder, enmity,
     esemplastic imagination, esemplastic power, faun, fertility god,
     field spirit, fire of genius, fireball, firebolt, flying flame,
     forest god, forked lightning, fresh-water nymph, friction,
     fulguration, fulmination, genius, geography, geosphere, globe, god,
     goddess, hero, heroine, idol, incompatibility, incompatibleness,
     industrialism, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inspiration, jangle,
     jar, kelpie, lares and penates, levin bolt, lightning, limniad,
     man fish, mercantilism, mermaid, merman, mischief, mother earth,
     muse, mythicization, mythification, mythopoeia, naiad, nix, nixie,
     noncooperation, oak-cleaving thunderbolts, ocean nymph,
     open conflict, panisc, panisca, paniscus, peal of thunder, phoenix,
     poesy, poetic genius, poetic imagination, rub, satyr, sea devil,
     sea god, sea nymph, sea-maid, sea-maiden, seaman,
     shaping imagination, sheet lightning, silenus, siren,
     strained relations, stroke of lightning, sylvan deity, tension,
     terra, terrestrial globe, the Muses, the blue planet, the goat god,
     this pendent world, thunder, thunderball, thunderbolt, thunderclap,
     thundercrack, thundering, thunderpeal, thunderstorm, thunderstroke,
     undine, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, vale, vale of tears,
     vegetation spirit, water god, water spirit, water sprite,
     whole wide world, world