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man-god 1. One who is both man and God, or is both a man and a god. (Cf. God-man.) When applied to Christ now written with capital initials.
1597J. Payne Royal Exch. 45 Yt may be sayde that Marie was the Mother of God, in asmoche as he was Man-god. 1720Welton Suffer. Son of God II. xxix. 750 Can any one behold this Man-God, after He had given such infallible Proofs of His Divinity,..and not stand amaz'd at the Depths of the Divine Councils? 1839Bailey Festus xxii. (1852) 396 The Lord, Man-God, re-appears. 1864Kingsley Rom. & Teut. 81 A Divus Cæsar, the man-god by whose head all nations swore. 1865tr. Strauss' New Life Jesus II. ii. xciii. 377 The Man-God of ecclesiastical doctrine. 1878D. Boucicault in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 51 Prometheus, in the eyes of the Greek, was a man-god. 2. occas. a. A deified man. b. A god having the form of a man.
1826Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) III. 381 The Christian world was sunk in the worship..of men-gods, and women-gods. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 50 The old idolaters cut down a tree and made a man-god figure out of it. |