subdivine

subdivine

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ divine.

Adjective

subdivine (not comparable)

  1. Imperfectly divine; divine in a partial or lower degree.
    • 1651 (indicated as 1652), Joseph Hall, “The Invisible World Discovered to Spiritual Eyes, and Reduced to Useful Meditation. […]”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC:
      he, that made you, hath given us some little glimpse of your subdivine natures, properties, operations
    • 1921, Plotinus, translated by Stephen MacKenna, Plotinus: Psychic and Physical Treatises; Comprising the Second and Third Enneads‎[1]:
      The All is a God when the divine Soul is counted in with it; "the rest," we read, "is a mighty spirit and its ways are subdivine."

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