单词 | supreme being |
释义 | > as lemmasSupreme Being b. With defining word or phrase: God. Esp. in Supreme Being.Sometimes used to avoid specifically Christian (or other religious) theological implications. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] the Most HigheOE highesteOE alwaldendOE drightinOE godOE King of kingsOE heavenOE lordOE sky?1518 gossea1556 beingc1600 deity1647 Master of the Universe1765 Morimo1824 Molimo1861 Gawd1877 big guy1925 Modimo1958 c1600 J. Davies in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) I. 244 He that was, and is, and cannot fade, This Beeing infinite. a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) iv. iv. 250 There is a God, or an Omnipotent and Omniscient Being. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 381. ¶8 Atheism, by which I mean a Disbelief of a Supreme Being. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. iv. 16 To the protection of that Being who will injure none of us, do I recommend you. 1820 J. Clare Let. 22 Feb. (1985) 32 She offers up her silent prayers to heaven where the Being resides who warms the rich & powerful. 1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 6 That the Supreme Being should have thus far interfered with the course of his providential arrangements. 1961 Philos. Rev. 70 343 We can..say that the continuous temporal extension of an object is a fiction, or a hypothesis, or a consequence of the postulate of an omnipercipient Being. 2002 N. Drury Dict. Esoteric 224/1 Mystics believe that the Godhead or Supreme Being sustains the manifested universe and is responsible for all aspects of existence and consciousness. Supreme Being 2. Of God or an attribute of God: denoting or relating to his status as the paramount ruler of the universe or the most exalted being or intelligence. Of a pagan god or goddess: denoting his or her status as the most exalted or most senior of the gods. Frequently in Supreme Being. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [adjective] > ruling or majestic supremea1522 the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [adjective] > ruling or majestic highOE supremea1522 majestical1583 majestatic1659 majestaticala1695 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) x. Prol. l. 21 Thy maist supreme indiuisibill substans, In ane natur thre personys. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour sig. g.ijv Jupiter was alwaye taken of the poetes & philosophers for the supreme god. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. i. 13 Take heede you dally not before your King, Least he that is the supreme King of Kings, Confound your hidden falshood. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. iii. 71 With the consent of supreame Ioue. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 70 Mine both in Heav'n and Earth to do thy will Supream . View more context for this quotation 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. Thirty-nine Articles i. 38 The Supream and Increated Being. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists ii. iii. 90 Whether there be really that Supreme One we suppose. 1751 J. Harris Hermes iii. v. 403 Original Truth..having the most intimate connection with the supreme Intelligence. 1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus i. 7 Thou supreme Goddess! 1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece II. xiii. 165 When the victim was to be offered to the supreme God, it was taken up to the top of the highest hill. 1854 Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 29 The proposition..that human science is..adverse to the belief in a Supreme Intelligence. 1914 A. B. Benson Old Norse Elem. in Swedish Romanticism iii. 109 The supreme Odin on his throne Lidskalf looking down upon the world and seeing all that takes place. 1947 A. H. Armstrong Introd. Anc. Philos. xiii. 151 To the Middle Platonists the Supreme God is not beyond all hierarchy. 2011 Times & Transcript (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 18 Jan. d8 Science has done more to show proof of a supreme being than it has to disprove one. < as lemmas |
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