Befitting or characteristic of a father; natural to a father; paternal.

Of people, their disposition and behaviour. Of God, Christ, or the Virgin Mary (in Christian belief): gracious, merciful. Now chiefly in…

Glorified, transfigured; cf. bliss, n. 3. Obsolete.

crowned with thorns, wearing a crown of thorns.

Having the character of light, luminous: applied spec. to the ‘vehicle’ of the soul (αὐγοειδὲς ὄχημα) imagined by the Neo-Platonists; occasionally…

Deifying, making divine; also (less properly), divine, godlike.