(n.) A being conceived of as possessing supernatural power, and to be propitiated by sacrifice, worship, etc.; a divinity; a deity; an object of worship; an idol.
(n.) The Supreme Being; the eternal and infinite Spirit, the Creator, and the Sovereign of the universe; Jehovah.
(n.) A person or thing deified and honored as the chief good; an object of supreme regard.
(n.) Figuratively applied to one who wields great or despotic power.
(v. t.) To treat as a god; to idolize.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(2) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
(3) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
(4) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
(5) If you can get through them, then you are considered a god in the world of cold calling.
(6) Last night, in a dramatic announcement that led some to accuse him of playing God, Venter said the dream had come true, saying he had created an organism with manmade DNA .
(7) The characters in the film realise that the “gods are not coming to save us”, he said.
(8) When I lived in New York, my local yoga centre would advocate veganism in terms I hadn't heard since I last went to synagogue ("godly") or spoke regularly to anorexics ("clean", "pure").
(9) In 1945 Aneurin Bevan said: ‘We have been the dreamers, we have been the sufferers, and now, we are the builders.’ And my God, how they built.
(10) From the moment God speaks to him until he leaves the ark and steps on to dry land, he never says a word.
(11) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
(12) He was in Cruise of the Gods with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and David Walliams and, most famously, in the stage and screen version of The History Boys.
(13) And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations – to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God.
(14) His "Oh God" prayer was actually written after the England team failed in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa but is likely to be useful in all future tournaments as well.
(15) OH MY GOD, I just looked it up online,” she wrote.
(16) There is a god who protects me, and I just don’t believe Hofer will send me to a concentration camp.” Like Marine Le Pen’s Front National, the Freedom party has actively tried to distance itself from its antisemitic past since at least 2010, when it joined a cross-party alliance in the European parliament with Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom and Italy’s Northern League.
(17) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(18) In fact, it soon became clear that if there was anything designed to get Tony really riled, it was talk of God.
(19) Thank God the heroes of SWAT-team prevented the worst.
(20) Expressing the belief that it was important for Christians to engage in "a sincere and rigorous dialogue" with atheists, Francis recalled Scalfari had asked him whether God forgave those "who do not believe and do not seek to believe".
Gon
Definition:
() of Gin
() imp. & p. p. of Go.
Example Sentences:
(1) The classic Jedi response to subservience can be seen in the contrast between Luke’s first meeting with C-3PO – “I see, Sir”; “You can call me Luke”; “I see, Sir Luke,”; “No, just Luke” – and Qui-Gon Jinn meeting Jar Jar Binks: “Mesa your humble servant”; “That won’t be necessary”.
(2) The description of the peripheral course of the greater occipital nerve (GON) varies in the literature.
(3) On the bench are four judges, with Korean Judge O-Gon Kwon presiding.
(4) Such headaches could be arrested by injecting the ipsilateral greater occipital nerve (GON) with local anaesthetic, prevented for up to 4 weeks by injecting 'Depomedrol' into the region of the nerve and for several months by surgical division of the nerve.
(5) I didn’t actually come here to free slaves,” says Liam Neeson as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace , like a person to whom a huge number of vexing tasks has been subcontracted.
(6) The presiding ICTY judge delivering the ruling, O-Gon Kwon, cleared Karadžić of one charge: responsibility for genocide in attacks on other towns and villages where Croats and Bosnians were driven out.
(7) It's about time for him to stand up and just go real black for one interview and say, 'If you keep fucking with me, we gon' have problems.'"
(8) It is shown that the method of minimising the perimeter of the polygon obtained by connecting the centromeres is only applicable if the positions of the n centromeres do not deviate too much from an arrangement along a regular n-gon.
(9) The presiding judge, O-Gon Kwon, adjourning the hearing, said the judges would rule later this week on whether to impose a counsel on Karadzic and on whether he should be compelled to attend.
(10) The avidin-biotin peroxidase complex immunostaining method combined with the glucose oxidase-nickel (ABC-GON) technique was applied to the guinea pig cochlea and middle ear, the fine structure of CGRP-containing fibers in the organ of Corti was also observed.
(11) The distribution confirms our earlier proposal that four trimers of polypeptide IX are embedded in the large cavities in the upper surface of the GON to cement hexons into a highly-stable assembly.
(12) The trapezius muscle was penetrated by the GON in 45% of cases, the semispinal muscle of the head was penetrated in 90% of cases, and the inferior oblique muscle of head was penetrated in 7.5% of cases.
(13) Her mother, my big momma, said, 'No way, you ain't gon' go, they gon' bomb it.'
(14) To examine the release of insulin in response to oral glucose, intravenous glucagon and intravenous arginine, we measured the levels of plasma glucose, immuno-reactive insulin (IRI) and C-peptide levels on fasting and following an oral glucose loading (OGTT), intravenous glucagon (GON) and arginine (ARG) infusion test in nine newly diagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetics.
(15) Calcium alginate-entrapped mycelium of Penicillium raistrickii i 477 was used for the 15 alpha-hydroxylation of 13-ethyl-gon-4-ene-3,17-dione.
(16) Presiding judge Oh-Gon Kwon said prosecutors did not provide enough evidence to "be capable of supporting a conviction of genocide in the [Bosnian] municipalities".
(17) The location of a minor component (6%) of the GON has been determined using a novel combination of electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography.
(18) The isolation of chlamydial trachomatis in sera of patients with gon ococcal urethritis (GU), non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU), post-gonococca l urethritis (PGU) and trachomainclusion conjunctivitis (TRIC) is discussed.
(19) The Brookhaven Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (STEM) was used to estimate the distribution of protein in the GON to a resolution of 15-18 A.
(20) Entrapment of the greater occipital nerve (GON) in its peripheral course has been thought to be of possible pathogenic significance in cervicogenic headache.