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Word Meanings - DISDEIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition. Feltham.

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  • DEPRIVEMENT
    Deprivation.
  • DIVESTITURE
    The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
  • DIVESTMENT
    The act of divesting.
  • CONDITIONALITY
    The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
  • CONDITIONAL
    Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
  • DEIFICATION
    The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.
  • CONDITIONATE
    Conditional. Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.
  • DIVESTURE
    Divestiture.
  • DIVEST
    See W (more info) devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely 1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. 2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess;
  • CONDITIONLY
    Conditionally.
  • CONDITION
    A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of
  • DEIFIC; DEIFICAL
    Making divine; producing a likeness to God; god-making. "A deifical communion." Homilies.
  • DEPRIVER
    One who, or that which, deprives.
  • DEITY
    fr. deus a god; akin to divus divine, Jupiter, gen. Jovis, Jupiter, dies day, Gr. d divine, as a noun, god, daiva divine, dy sky, day, hence, the sky personified as a god, and to the first syllable of E. Tuesday, Gael. & Ir. dia God, W. duw. Cf.
  • DEPRIVE
    1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
  • CONDITIONALLY
    In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively. Shak.
  • CONDITIONED
    1. Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man. The best conditioned and unwearied spirit. Shak. 2. Having, or known under or by, conditions or relations; not independent; not
  • DIVESTIBLE
    Capable of being divested.
  • INCONDITIONAL
    Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.
  • UNCONDITIONAL
    Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv.
  • UNCONDITIONED
    Not subject to condition or limitations; infinite; absolute; hence, inconceivable; incogitable. Sir W. Hamilton. The unconditioned , all that which is inconceivable and beyond the realm of reason; whatever is inconceivable under logical forms or
  • FAINEANT DEITY
    A deity recognized as real but conceived as not acting in human affairs, hence not worshiped.
  • PRECONDITION
    A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary condition.
  • HERMAPHRODEITY
    Hermaphrodism. B. Jonson.

 

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