(n.) A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bowie’s 1973 album Aladdin Sane, recorded between the two North American stints of the Ziggy Stardust tour, was conceived as “Ziggy goes to America”, the rock demigod encountering a place equal to his glamour and madness, from the riots of Panic in Detroit to the Hollywood decadence of Cracked Actor, and the sexual alienation of Drive-In Saturday, the title alone a play on the drive-in movie theatres which even now seem so glamorously foreign to Brits.
(2) When Angelina Jolie and Leonardo DiCaprio signed up to humanitarian and environmental causes, for instance, they were already untouchably glamorous demigods whose lives seemed a million miles away from their fans’, and whose jet-setting activism seemed almost as distant.
(3) He achieved that demigod-like status, at least in Pennsylvania and among Penn State fans.
(4) Cable said: "It is clear that in banks like RBS the demigod status granted to Fred Goodwin prevented any form of credible scrutiny.
(5) The more famous phrase was an invention of Turner's friend, John Ruskin , the critic who made the artist a kind of demigod, championing his every brushstroke.
(6) Produced by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, veritable demigods of the online comedy scene, 555’s hipster credentials are close to unassailable.
(7) For every weedy Peter Parker or Tony Stark sans Iron Man armour, there are armies of demigods looking ripped in latex and leather, many of them played by people called Chris.
(8) At least it is for Tom Derry, who visits the fenced-off shrine in Detroit’s Corktown neighbourhood every week, in memory of the demigods who once walked here.
(9) Saturday saw Lybke, hungover but still in paunchy Teutonic demigod mode, glad-handing the crowd who were eddying through his gallery.
(10) Ayman Youssef Mansour also received three years, but this time not for offending the demigods of the military but rather for "insulting" Islam , "promoting extremist ideas" and "inciting sectarianism" on Facebook.
(11) Australian actor Chris Hemsworth rounds out the top five with $37m, thanks to his roles as a Norse demigod in last year's Thor: The Dark World and the 2012 $1.5bn box-office megalith The Avengers .
(12) And yet, just as an atheist would argue the universe is all the more beautiful and wondrous when divine intervention is removed from the equation, so Smith found his admiration for Mandela grew as he understood the flesh and blood human being, rather than the demigod.
(13) We’re still waiting to see whether Captain America will use his ability, as yet unmentioned in the films and unknown to Cap, to wield Thor’s hammer – and with it the demigod’s power.
(14) He achieved a sort of demigod status in the state, where his 2015 escape was greeted with celebratory gunfire and choruses of narcocorridos (songs lionizing narcos).
Mortal
Definition:
(a.) Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.
(a.) Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.
(a.) Fatally vulnerable; vital.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the time of death.
(a.) Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
(a.) Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power.
(a.) Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours.
(n.) A being subject to death; a human being; man.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perinatal mortality is strongly associated with obstetrical factors, respiratory distress syndrome, and prematurity.
(2) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
(3) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(4) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
(5) Importantly, these characteristics were strong predictors of subsequent mortality.
(6) There appears to be no risk of morbidity or mortality.
(7) The introduction of intravenous, high-dose thrombolytic therapy during a brief period has markedly reduced mortality of patients with acute myocardial infarction.
(8) The hospital mortality was 2.4% in group A and 2.6% in group B.
(9) The mortality data were derived from the reports by Miyagi Prefectural Government.
(10) The medium time of admission (8.98 vs 9.5 days) and mortality rate (6.3% vs 7.1%) did not change.
(11) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.
(12) It was found that preterm infants (delivered before 38 weeks of gestation) had nine times the early neonatal mortality of term infants, irrespective of growth retardation patterns.
(13) High mortality, severe destruction of pancreatic B-cells and presence of sporadic mononuclear infiltrations in islets and around excretory ducts were observed.
(14) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
(15) In contrast, the association of serum cholesterol with mortality due to causes other than coronary heart disease changed during follow-up (interaction of cholesterol with follow-up period: p = 0.004).
(16) Mortality, blood clearance and organ distribution of 125I labelled Escherichia coli were determined.
(17) In Stage II patients, chemotherapy has an impact on disease mortality for ER-positive and ER-negative premenopausal women and possibly ER-negative postmenopausal patients.
(18) It was found that there was a substantial increase in mortality rates in the area under the jets where there was large noise radiation.
(19) The positive predictive accuracy of a biophysical profile score of 0, with mortality and morbidity used as end points, was 100%.
(20) We conclude that heparin plus AT III partially prevents the endotoxin-induced generation of PAI activity which seems to correlate with the reduced presence of fibrin deposits in kidneys and with a reduced mortality.