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▪ I. numen|ˈnjuːmən|
[a. L. nūmen divine will, divinity, related to nuĕre to nod (assent).]
Deity, divinity; divine or presiding power or spirit.
1628Feltham Resolves ii. xvi. 50 As if allowing them the name, they would conserue the Numen to themselues. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 193 That what they first meet..they make their Numen and tutelary God for that day. 1662H. More Philos. Writ. Pref. Gen. (1712) 9 For it is the same Numen in us that moves all things in some sort or other. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. Misc. ii. ii. 65 They madly dote upon Matter, and devoutly worship it, as the only Numen. 1788Antiq. in Ann. Reg. 120/2 Any local one whose numen and worship..was already established as local. 1874J. Fergusson in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 765 In a cathedral town where all unite..in..adoring the sacred and historical numen of the place.
▪ II. numen
obs. pa. pple. of nim v. |