ˈsemigod
[semi- 2; freq. used to render L. sēmideus, Gr. ἡµίθεος.]
A demigod.
| 1417 J. Capgrave Chron. (Rolls) 50 Thei had doute, whan he was ded, whethir thei schuld a noumbir him among the hie goddis or semigoddes. 1596 C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 16 Some semi-God, more then a mortall creature. 1615 B. Jonson Golden Age Rest. Wks. (1616) 1013 Yonder soules..in Elysian bowres..That for their liuing good, now semigods are made. 1618 Chapman Hesiod i. 254 Diuine Heroes; That the surnames bore Of Semigods. 1726 Leoni Alberti's Archit. II. 21/2 Semi-Gods and Heroes to be Guardians over Cities. 1831 Keightley Mythol. ii. i. 259 The divine race of heroes, in former times called Semigods. 1860 Emerson Cond. Life, Culture Wks. (Bohn) II. 363 Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? |