Crossword clues for godlike
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Godlike \God"like`\, a. [God + like. Cf. Godly.] Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good; as, godlike virtue. -- God"like`ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, from god + -like (adj.).
Wiktionary
a. Having the characteristics of a god.
WordNet
adj. appropriate to or befitting a god; "the divine strength of Achilles"; "a man of godlike sagacity"; "man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers"-R.H.Roveref [syn: divine]
being or having the nature of a god; "the custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers"-J.G.Frazier; "the divine will"; "the divine capacity for love"; "'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create"-J.G.Saxe [syn: divine]
Wikipedia
Godlike has a number of unrelated uses:
- "Godlike" (song), a 1990 single by KMFDM
- Godlike (role-playing game), an alternate history World War II era Superhero role-playing game
- Godlike (album), a 2002 album by Natas
Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire, 1936-1946 is an alternate history World War II era Superhero role-playing game, created by Dennis Detwiller and Greg Stolze. Godlike was originally produced by Dennis Detwiller and John Scott Tynes of Pagan Publishing (though it was not actually a Pagan publication), and published by Hawthorn Hobgoblynn Press. It is currently published by Arc Dream Publishing. Godlike is the first game released using the One-Roll Engine (O.R.E.) gaming system, a dice pool system where matched die results determine success.
Godlike is the sixth studio album by Natas. Released on May 21, 2002, it is the group's first album to be released on a label other than Reel Life Productions, and their only release on Number 6 Records.
Godlike peaked at #35 on the Billboard Top Independent Albums chart, #45 on the Heatseekers chart and #56 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Usage examples of "godlike".
The sight of his own visage on that godlike frame thrilled him, and he laughed aloud as he willed his elemental double into battle against Ameer Tukephremo.
When shall the saner softer polities Whereof we dream, have play in each proud land, And patriotism, grown Godlike, scorn to stand Bondslave to realms, but circle earth and seas?
It has a population of potent libertines ruled by a mysterious demigod with the power to create intelligent beings and restore life to them when lost -- godlike powers indeed!
Even the figure assumed by Roderic, his garb, his step, his gesture had something in them of angelic and celestial without the blaze of divinity, and without the awfulness that surrounds the godlike existencies, that sometimes condescend to visit this sublunary scene.
You were a far truer poet, Theos Alwyn, when as a world-foolish, heaven-inspired lad you believed in God, and therefore, in godlike gladness, found all things good!
What if there really were a man, godlike in knowledge and wisdom, who could grasp that ungraspable universe and bring it to heel?
The highways of the Achaemenids -- yes, and which before them had trembled to the tramplings of the myriads of the godlike Dravidian conquerors.
His intellectual faculties aroused, Gummitch had two days later intuited a further and greater secret: since he was the child of humans he would, upon reaching this maturation date of which Old Horsemeat had spoken, turn not into a sullen torn but into a godlike human youth with reddish golden hair the color of his present fur.
Remove all technobabble and Godlike explanation, and focus, with complete exclusion of all else, on the experience of the protagonist.
An exploratory group had crashed on Old Earth when the humans still thought it a flat land on the back of a giant turtle or somesuch, and they had managed to survive there, even be worshiped by some of the primitive humans as gods or godlike creatures.
The highways of the Achaemenids--yes, and which before them had tre mbled to the tra mplings of the myriads of the godlike Dravidian conquerors.
F Irebrand of hell first tynd in Phlegeton,By thousand furies, and from thence out throwenInto this world, to worke confusion,And set it all on fire by force vnknowen,Is wicked discord, whose small sparkes once blowenNone but a God or godlike man can slake.
Her intense contact with the planet considerably reduced her awe of it, but although it lost its godlike stature as a result, the planet, considering and collaborating with her for the welfare of its inhabitants, never stopped being 'beneficent' in her mind.
O, how accursed is that system, which entombs the godlike mind of man, defaces the divine image, reduces those who by crea tion were crowned with glory and honor to a level with four-footed beasts, and exalts the dealer in hu man flesh above all that is called God!
There was definitely danger in letting the diggers see that the humans were, after all, human, that what miracles they did were done with tools and machines and not by godlike powers inherent in them.