Word Meanings - INDIVINITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want or absence of divine power or of divinity. Sir T. Browne.

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• ABSENCE
  1. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12. 2. Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law."
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• DIVINER
  1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one
• DIVINELY
  1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. Most divinely fair. Tennyson. 2. By the agency or influence of God. Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness. Macaulay.
• POWERLESS
  Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n.
• DIVINITY
  1. The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead. When he attributes divinity to other things than God, it is only a divinity by way of participation. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. The Deity; the Supreme Being; God.
• DIVINERESS
  A woman who divines. Dryden.
• DIVINITY CALF
  Calf stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books.
• POWER
  See FISH
• DIVINENESS
  The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence. Shak.
• DIVINEMENT
  Divination.
• DIVINE
  divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, 1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. "The immensity of the divine nature." Paley. 2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. "Divine protection." Bacon.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• IMPOWER
  See EMPOWER
• POLICE POWER
  The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers
• DISEMPOWER
  To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.
• EMPOWER
  1. To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize ; as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor. 2. To give
• UNPOWER
  Want of power; weakness. Piers Plowman.
• CONCERT OF THE POWERS
  An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.
• INDIVINITY
  Want or absence of divine power or of divinity. Sir T. Browne.
• UNPOWERFUL
  Not powerful; weak. Cowley.
• HORSE POWER
  . 1. The power which a horse exerts.
• OVERPOWER
  To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to vanquish; to subdue; as, the light overpowers the eyes. "And overpower'd that gallant few." Wordsworth. Syn. -- To overbear; overcome; vanquish; defeat; crush; overwhelm; overthrow; rout; conquer;