(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".
Osiris
Definition:
(n.) One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris coming to those platforms this December, and Tomb Raider: The Definitive Edition is available on PS4.” However, there is still some slight ambiguity about whether the deal is for Winter 2015 only.
(2) At the time of the blast, Nasa’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft was just a mile away, awaiting its own launch to chase an asteroid.
(3) On a trip to the Near East, Dadd became deluded that the Egyptian god Osiris was directing him to eliminate the devil's influence.
(4) Results show that OSIRIS can be calibrated against the MRE 113A for a given dust and that the calibration is maintained over the normal working range of 0-40 mg m-3.
(5) To achieve this goal, it was elected to develop a modular and portable software called OSIRIS.
(6) Once calibrated, OSIRIS would be useful in monitoring respirable dust concentrations in a wide range of industrial or laboratory situations.
(7) • Osiris Guzman (Dominican Republic) banned for 30 days, 15 days suspended for six months, fined SFr300.
(8) Its precision was investigated by studying the errors associated with patient repositioning in the apparatus using the computer controlled image scanner OSIRIS.
(9) I hope to use our friendship and excellent collaboration to ameliorate good governance.” 16) Staying humble May 2015: Feeling awkward after the Dominican Republic FA’s head Osiris Guzman (back in the game after his ban in the 2011 Concacaf bribery scandal) compares him to Moses, Jesus and Nelson Mandela , Sepp provides some balance.
(10) Yet its hero is a far cry from Jesus, or Osiris, or even Superman – it's the Jade Rabbit, China's lunar rover, which has become a national obsession in recent weeks, inspiring an intense surge of interest and national pride.
(11) Latifa al-Zayyat: al-Bab al-Maftouh (1960) Naguib Mahfouz: Cairo trilogy (1956-57) Colette Khoury: Ayyam Ma'ah (1959) Enayat el-Zayyat: Al-Hubb w'al-Samt (1967) Layla al-Juhani: Jahiliyya (2006) You could argue that the first narrative to emerge from what has come to be called the Middle East was the first love story of all time: the story of Isis and Osiris.
(12) OSIRIS therefore needs to be calibrated against a gravimetric sampler for each dust which it will be used to monitor.
(13) I wish Concacaf unity, and solidarity.” • Among the feedback: Dominican Republic FA head Osiris Guzman , back in the game after his ban in the 2011 Concacaf bribery scandal , comparing Sepp to Moses, Jesus and Nelson Mandela ; Turks and Caicos FA vice-president Olive Smith calling for delegates to vote for Sepp “ en bloc, to continue this mutually beneficial journey ”; and Concacaf president Jeffrey Webb summing up: “Concacaf is – more than ever – united by one vision.” • Also at the event: Concacaf’s executive elections, with Webb and vice-president Captain Horace Burrell re-elected unopposed.
(14) The OSIRIS trial suggests that early administration of surfactant to an estimated 32 babies, when compared with treatment of established RDS, would prevent 1 baby from dying and another from being dependent on extra oxygen long-term, but would entail the additional use of surfactant in 8 of these babies.
(15) It was the Trinidad & Tobago FA president, Raymond Tim Kee, who praised Blatter as the “father of football”, while the president of the Dominican Republic federation, Osiris Guzman, compared the 79-year-old Swiss to Moses, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King as well as Jesus and Mandela.
(16) This annual miracle was ascribed to the tears of the goddess Isis mourning her murdered husband Osiris, and its effect was a safe prediction of what lay in store for the people of the valley: midscale meant a plentiful harvest, too much water spelled out death by flood, too little warned of famine and starvation.
(17) A short screening interview for the diagnosis of alcoholism has been developed with the assistance of the automatic interaction detector (AID) program (a multivariate sequential analysis strategy) that is part of the OSIRIS statistical package.
(18) If there are SpaceX mission delays, other cargo spacecraft will be able to meet the station’s needs, and supplies and research investigations are at good levels.” The Nasa statement said the rocket and spacecraft for its next scheduled launch with SpaceX, Osiris-Rex , were “healthy and secure” at a launch site a mile away from the site of the explosion.
(19) Eight premature infants ventilated for hyaline membrane disease and enrolled in the OSIRIS surfactant trial were studied.
(20) Isis, the mother of mankind, does not just mourn the slaying and dismembering of her husband Osiris by his evil brother, Seth; she embarks on a journey to find his 14 body parts, scattered throughout the land of Egypt.