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City of God
City of God n. [after post-classical Latin civitas Dei (Vulgate); compare Anglo-Norman cité de Deu, Middle French, French cité de Dieu (first half of the 12th cent.)] (in religious language) heaven or paradise, imagined as a city (cf. sense 4a); (also) an ideal or heavenly city.Sometimes used spec. of or with reference to the idealized city described by St Augustine of Hippo (354–430) in his treatise De Civitate Dei (cf. quot. a1500).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [noun] > other types of city
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garden town1835
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arcology1985
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms xlv. 5 The bure of the flod gladith the cite of God [L. civitatem Dei].
a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 88 Seynte Augustyne compileth þe booke callid The Cite of God.
1541 M. Coverdale tr. H. Bullinger Olde Fayth sig. N.viv The cytye of God triumpheth, and the bloude of innocent Abell and his brethren, speaketh yet.
1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 25 So farre out of the way..that they can hardly hit the right way againe to the..citie of God [Fr. la Cité de Dieu].
1736 Gentleman's Mag. June 346/2 We're but exiles here at best, Pilgrims, who seek a city yet to come, City of God, eternal in the skies.
1847 J. Keble Serm. Academical & Occas. viii. 200 A system of tradition, subsidiary to the Scriptures, might yet exist in the commonwealth or city of God.
1937 Life 1 Feb. 54/1 To every ‘How do you do?’ he replied, ‘I am on my way to the City of God.’
1984 K. M. Smith Social Crisis Preaching 6 John Calvin..set out to bring into being a city of God.
2008 C. A. Lockard Societies, Networds, & Transitions viii. 220/1 Augustine..argued that the ‘city of god’ comprised all who followed God's laws..while the ‘city of man’ consisted of non-Christians.
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