disdeify
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disdeify (third-person singular simple present disdeifies, present participle disdeifying, simple past and past participle disdeified)
- (transitive) To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
- The Papists portray him as an old Man; and by this means, dis-deifie him.
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- “disdeify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.