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English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin deifōrmis (literally “godlike”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdiː.ɪˌfɔː(ɹ)m/, /ˈdeɪ.ɪˌfɔː(ɹ)m/
Adjective
deiform (comparative more deiform, superlative most deiform)
- Godlike.
1642, H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΑΘΑΝΑΣΙΑ Platonica: Or A Platonicall Poem of the Immortality of Souls, Especially Mans Soul”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, →OCLC, book 1, canto 2, stanza 47, page 19:But that full graſp of vaſt Eternitie / Longs not to beings ſimply vegetive, / Not yet to creatures merely ſenſitive: / Reaſon alone cannot arrive to it. / Onely ſouls Deiform intellective / Unto that height of happineſſe can get; / Yet immortalitie with other ſouls may fit.
- Conformable to the will of God
1683, John Scott, The Christian Life from Its Beginning to Its Consummation in Glory:When our minds shall perceive what a pure imitation of God its life is, and how exactly deiform all its motions and actions are, with what ravishing pleasure will they even review their own motions […]