man-godn.
/ˈmanˌɡɒd/, U.S. /ˈˌmænˈɡɑd/ 1. Theology. Usually Man-God. Jesus, viewed as a being who is both man and God. Cf. God-man n.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > as God and man
God-manc1400
man-god1597
Theanthropos1635
1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 45 Yt may be sayde that Marie was the Mother of God, in asmoche as he was Man-god.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 111 O Sacred Place, which wert the Cradle Of th'only Man-God, and his happy Swadle.
1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings 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?
1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama xxiv. 256 Then did the Man-God re-assume His unity.
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 270 The Lord, Man-God, re-appears.
1865 tr. D. F. Strauss New Life Jesus II. ii. xciii. 377 The Man-God of ecclesiastical doctrine.
1991 R. Cecil Masks of Death 66 The concept of a human soul sustained by a divine being..exists in other religions, independently of the Christian accretion of the Man-God and suffering Saviour.
2. gen. A being who is both a man (i.e. a human being) and a god; (occasionally) a god having the form of a man (i.e. of a male human being).
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > demigod or hero
kingeOE
half-godc1374
semigoda1464
heroa1522
demigod1530
indigetec1550
petty god1581
under-god1583
heroic1586
godling1596
semi-deity?1624
goddikin1675
medioxumus1677
godkin1765
man-god1826
godlet1884
1826 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Jan. 223 The Christian world was sunk in the worship..of men-gods, and women-gods.
1864 C. Kingsley Roman & Teuton iii. 81 A Divus Cæsar, the man-god by whose head all nations swore.
1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 50 The old idolaters cut down a tree and made a man-god figure out of it.
1906 J. London White Fang v. ii. 282 White Fang, bristling silently.., sank back and watched the hostile act repeated. But no harm came of it, nor of the embrace from the strange man-god that followed.
1933 E. K. Chambers Eng. Folk-play 223 The notion of the sacrifice of a man-god has crept in.
1980 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Feb. 135/2 The next progression becomes visible in Ancient Egypt where men who were Kings decided to also become Gods, so that men-gods invade the Pantheon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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