Word Meanings - SAKTI - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The divine energy, personified as the wife of a deity (Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, etc.); the female principle.

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• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• BRAHMANISM; BRAHMINISM
  The religion or system of doctrines of the Brahmans; the religion of Brahma.
• BRAHMANIST; BRAHMINIST
  An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans.
• 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
• ENERGY
  Capacity for performing work. Note: The kinetic energy of a body is the energy it has in virtue of being in motion. It is measured by one half of the product of the mass of each element of the body multiplied by the square of the velocity of the
• PERSONIFIER
  One who personifies.
• 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.
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• 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.
• BRAHMANESS
  A Brahmani.
• BRAHMA
  The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindoo gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer. Note: According to the Hindoo religious books, Brahma (with the final a short), or Brahm, is the
• DIVINERESS
  A woman who divines. Dryden.
• VISHNU
  A divinity of the modern Hindoo trimurti, or trinity. He is regarded as the preserver, while Brahma is the creator, and Siva the destroyer of the creation.
• DIVINENESS
  The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence. Shak.
• BRAHMANI
  Any Brahman woman.
• DIVINEMENT
  Divination.
• BRAHMAN; BRAHMIN
  A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindoos. Brahman bull , the male of a variety of the zebu, or Indian ox, considered sacred by the Hindoos. (more info) : cf. F. Brahmane, Brachmane, Bramine, L. Brachmanae, -manes, -mani, pl.,
• 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.
• IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
  The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.
• FAINEANT DEITY
  A deity recognized as real but conceived as not acting in human affairs, hence not worshiped.
• HIGH-PRINCIPLED
  Possessed of noble or honorable principles.
• UNPRINCIPLE
  To destroy the moral principles of.
• HERMAPHRODEITY
  Hermaphrodism. B. Jonson.