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half-god
[Cf. OHG. halbgot (Ger. halbgott).]
= demigod.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 1517 (1545) Satiry and fawny..That halue goddes ben of wildernesse. c1385― L.G.W. Prol. 387 For they ben half goddys in this world here. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xvi. (Arb.) 51 Bacchus, Ceres, Perseus, Hercules, Theseus and many other, who..came to be accompted gods and halfe gods or goddesses. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 39 Those magesticke Heroes, or halfe-gods. 1895A. Nutt Voy. of Bran I. 261 The godlike kin of the heroes, whom the older world called half-gods. 1901Joyce Day of Rabblement 8 The Adoration of the Magi..shows what Mr. Yeats can do when he breaks with the half-gods. 1916‘æ’ National Being ii. 14 The gods departed, the half-gods also. 1951L. MacNeice tr. Goethe's Faust i. 56 A half-god has dashed it asunder! |