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Deific

Deific \De*if"ic\, Deifical \De*if"ic*al\, a. [L. deificus; deus god + facere to make: cf. F. d['e]ifique.] Making divine; producing a likeness to God; god-making. ``A deifical communion.''
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
deific

late 15c., from French déifique (late 14c.), from Late Latin deificus "god-making, sacred," in Medieval Latin "divine," from deus "god" (see Zeus) + -ficus "making" (see factitious).

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deific

a. divine, of or relating to a deity or deities

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deific

adj. characterized by divine or godlike nature

Usage examples of "deific".

She talked on and on, developing this main idea that in days of older faiths there were deific types of life upon the earth, evoked by worship and beneficial to humanity.

Here, through the motionless surfaces, that nameless thing the Desert ill conceals urged outwards into embryonic form and shape, akin, he almost felt, to those immense deific symbols of Other Life the Egyptians knew and worshipped.

Then you will find that one is as important a factor as duodecillions in being and doing right, and thus demonstrating deific Principle.

And those whose eyes were still focussed, but on some point far from here, a deific vision they’d come to the shabbiest stall and overcoated, secret-pocketed vendors to find-Deckard remembered seeing those before as well.