undeify

English

Etymology

Verb

undeify (third-person singular simple present undeifies, present participle undeifying, simple past and past participle undeified)

(transitive) To degrade from the state of deity; to deprive godness.
- 1711 June 4 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, May 24, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 73; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
  An Idol may be undeified
  The spelling has been modernized.

References

“undeify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

deunify

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