Under God

9. In phrases which express dependence upon or grateful recognition of divine providence.
a. if (or _and) God will (also dial. an Gothill, a Goddil); God willing, _ will God. (And God will was formerly sometimes used ironically, = _save the mark'.)
_1400 Rom. Rose 4561 Love shal never, if god wil, Here of me,_Offence or complaynt.
_1470 Henry Wallace iv. 766 Will God, I sall eschape this tresoune fals.
1526 Wolsey in St. Papers Hen. VIII (1830) I. 184 The said realme may yet, God willing, be preserved and releved.
1542 Becon Pathw. Prayer xlvi. R ij b, Monstures, Monckes I would haue sayd, & other religious parsons, and God wyll, as they desyre to be called.
1588 Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 28 Naye (quoth Penrie) neuer so long as I liue god-willing.
1602 Shakes. Ham. i. v. 187.
_1688 H. Herbert in Reb. Warner Epist. Curios. Ser. i. 72 We both intend, God willing, to set forward for London on Munday next.
1706 Wycherley Let. to Pope in P.'s Lett. (1735) 25 Afterwards to spend two Months (God willing) with you, at Binfield.
1790 Mrs. Wheeler Westmld. Dial. (1821) 43 Ise find tea a maister, a goddil!
1825_80 Jamieson s.v. Gothill, An Gothill, if God will._ _In Gothill I'll be there'.
1835 Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 25 Next year, God willing, I shall see you all again.
b. by (_with) God's grace; by (with) God's help, assistance, blessing, etc.
832 Kentish Charter in O.E. Texts 40/11 Ic ceolnoð mid godes gefe ercebiscop.
13_ Sir Beues (A.) 412 Y nam no truant, be godes grace.
1500_20 Dunbar Poems xviii. 51, I sall, with Goddis grace, Keip his command.
1619 Sanderson Serm. ad Cler. i. (1689) 3, I shall by Gods assistance proceed_to inquire how [etc.].
1662 Bk. Com. Prayer, Catechism, Yes verily; and by Gods help so I will.
1859 Tennyson Enid 344 Here, by God's grace, is the one voice for me.
_ c. (and) God before (or to fore), under God's guidance. with God to friend: with God's help or protection. Obs.
_1374 Chaucer Troylus i. 1049 And dredelees, if that my lyf may laste, And god to-forn, lo, som of hem shal smarte.
_1400 Rom. Rose 7198 They shal neuere haue that myght And god to forne for strif to fight That [etc.].
_1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 14 Diuerse exsaumples, the whiche, and God before, ye shalle take hede of.
_1500 Melusine xxi. 127 For god before we tende & purpose to gyue bataylle to the Sawdan.
1533 J. Heywood Pard. & Friar B iv, I wyll neuer come hether more, Whyle I lyue and god before.
1590 Spenser F.Q. i. i. 28 So forward on his way (with God to frend) He passed forth.
1594 Kyd Cornelia iii. E 4 b, Els (god to fore) my selfe may liue to see His tired corse lye toyling in his blood.
1599 Shakes. Hen. V, i. ii. 307 For God before, Wee'le chide this Dolphin at his fathers doore.
1609 Drayton Cromwell 36 For in my skill his sound recouerie lies, Doubt not thereof if setting God before.
d. under God: as a secondary cause or mediate object of gratitude.
1607 Peele's Jests B 1 a, Yet, quoth he, vnder God, I wil doe him some good.
1619 in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1848) II. 170 The blessedness of this good work, under God, is to be attributed to the king alone.
e. thank God; God be thanked, praised, etc. _Earlier Gode Þonc. Also praised (_loved) be God.
_1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 11 Unbileue is aiware aleid and rihte leue arered godeðonc.
1352 Minot Poems (Hall) i. 53 Bot, loued be God, Þe pride es slaked Of Þam [etc.].
1599 Shakes. Much Ado v. i. 190 You breake iests as braggards do their blades, which God be thanked hurt not.
1607 Peele's Jests B 1 b, The fellow told him God be praised, his good Landlord was well recouered.
1753 Scots Mag. July 320/2 Most of the landholders have now, thank God! abandoned that_religion.
1842 Tennyson Lady Clare 17 _O God be thank'd!_ That all comes round so just and fair.'
10. God (_it) wot (arch.; see goddot), God knows.
a. Used to emphasize the truth of a statement.
_1300 Cursor M. 4473 (Gött.) God wat_I sal vndo Þe wele Þi sueuen.
_1300 Havelok 2527 þer-of held he wel his oth, For he it [a priory] made, god it woth.
_1529 Skelton Col. Cloute 234 Than renne they in euery stede, God wot, with dronken nolles.
?_1550 Freiris Berwik 61 in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 287 He went fra hame, God wait, on Weddins_day.
1564 Coverdale Lett. Martyrs 77 It is impossible to set forth_al yt was (God knoweth) tumultuously spoken.
1590 Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 229 The Chaine, Which God he knowes, I saw not.
1594 ---- Rich. III, ii. iii. 18 Stood the State so? No, no, good friends, God wot.
_1617 Bayne On Eph. i. (1643) 214 Commonly the most Christians are counted good men godwot, but simple soules, of no parts.
1859 Tennyson Elaine 197 God wot, his shield is blank enough.
b. Used with indirect question to imply that something is unknown to the speaker, and probably to every other human being.
1568 Grafton Chron. II. 98 The sayd John was had after in great suspicion, whether justly or unjustly God knoweth.
1646 Buck Rich. III, iii. 85 Their bodies were bestowed God wot where.
1822 Byron Werner iv. i. 51 The country_Is over-run with---God knows who.
1823 ---- Juan ix. lxvii, They fell in love;---she with his face, His grace, his God-knows-what.
11. In earnest appeals or exhortations, as for God's sake; for God's love; in (also _a, o') God's name; _ on or a God's half (see half n. 2 d). For the use of adjuratory forms to the same effect, see 14.
1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 8968 Madame he sede uor godes loue is Þis wel ido þat Þou Þes vnclene limes handlest.
_1300 Cursor M. 4798 (Cott.) Ga we alle, in gods name.
Ibid. 4800 (Gött.), I _ou pray for goddes sake [etc.].
_1386 Chaucer Prol. 854 What, welcome be the cut, a goddes name.
1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. K viij, These a Gods name wear their targettes again the shot of our small artillerie.
1583 Hollyband Campo di Fior 15 For God sake let not my tutor know it.
1593 Shakes. Rich. II, ii. i. 251 But what o' Gods name doth become of this?
1610 B. Jonson Alch. v. iii, For Gods sake, when will her Grace be at leasure?
1735 Pope Prol. Sat. 101 Hold! for God's sake---you'll offend.
1859 Tennyson Elaine 504 For God's love, a little air!
1864 ---- En. Ard. 505 For God's sake_let it be at once.
_ 12. God pays: a proverbial expression of indifference to the consequences of one's action. Obs.
1605 Lond. Prodigal C 1 b, There be some that bares a souldiers forme, That_Goes swaggering vp and downe from house to house, crying God payes.
1616 B. Jonson Epigr. i. xii. Lieut. Shift, His onely answere is to all, god payes.
1626 ---- Masque of Owls, Whom since they have shipt away, And left him God to pay.
** In oaths.
13. by God, _ before (or fore) God; also by God above, etc. (cf. by A 2).
From a desire to avoid actual use of the sacred name come various distorted or minced pronunciations of the word; see cock, dod, gad, gar, ged, gog, goles, golly, gom, gosh, gos(se, gud, gum; also adad, adod, bedad, begad, begar, ecod, egad, icod, igad. Of these forms only Cock and Gog are common before 1600; the others occur mainly in the 17th and 18th c. Gar is by the dramatists chiefly put in the mouths of foreigners (cf. 14).
1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 7000 Vor gode [v.r. By god] Þe nexte king_ne _ef hom no_t folliche so muche.
_1300 Cursor M. 7934 _Bi godd o-liue', he suor his ath.
13_ Sir Beues (A.) 1098 _For gode', queÞ Beues, _Þat ich do nelle'.
_1400 Gamelyn 469 It is nought wel served, by god that al made.
1460 Lybeaus Disc. 219 Be god Þat bou_te me dere.
_1500 Melusine xxxvi. 293 By god, my lord, shame is therof to you.
1519 Interl. Four Elem. (Percy Soc.) 48 That is well sayd, be God Almyght!
_1540 Heywood Four P.P. (Copland) C iv, Pardoner. I thought ye lyed. Poticary. And so thought I by god that dyed.
1557 Interl. Youth B j b, I sweare by God in Trinitie I wyll go fetche him vnto the.
Ibid. B ij b, A wyfe nay nay for God auowe He shall haue fleshe inoughe.
1599 Porter Angry Wom. Abingt. (Percy Soc.) 22 Fran. Are they so? Comes. I, before God, are they.
1610 B. Jonson Alch. i. iii, 'Fore God, my intelligence Costs me more money, then my share oft comes too.
1617 Moryson Itin. ii. 157 By God, Sir, I will doe for Queene Elizabeth that which I will not doe for my selfe.
1841_4 Emerson Ess., Poet Wks. (Bohn) I. 170 He says with the old painter, _By God, it is in me, and must go forth of me'.
1885 Ormsby Don Quix. ii. xxxiv. III. 384 _By God and upon my conscience', said the devil, _I never observed it'.

 

14. In possessive combinations serving as asseverative or adjuratory formulæ. Preceded by by or (in adjuratory use: cf. 11) by for; also with omission of prep. (Cf. Gad n.5 3.)
Corrupt or minced forms of these oaths are also common, God's being altered or abbreviated to Ads, Cocks, Cods, Cuds, Gads, Gogs, Guds, His, 'Ods, 'S, 'Uds, 'Z (in Zooks, Zounds); of these only Cocks and Gogs are old, the others coming into use about 1600 or later; the full forms are rarely found after that date except as archaisms. The form Gars is assigned to foreigners, as gars blur, garzowne in Doctor Dodypoll (Bullen O. Pl. III. 129), garzoon in Farquhar (Beaux Strat. iii. iii, etc.).
a. With ordinary ns., sometimes preceded by an adj.; also with the adj. used elliptically, as God's blest, precious, etc.
In some of these oaths the n. denotes an attribute of Deity; more usually, God's = Christ's, as in God's arms, body, blood, etc. In some jocular oaths, as in God's brother, fish, hat, malt, the n. has no meaning in its connexion, being substituted for some word of solemn import.
1611 Beaum. & Fl. Knt. Burn. Pestle i. iv, Bid the plaiers send Rafe, or by *Gods---, and they do not [etc.].
1608 Merry Devil Edmonton (1617) C 2 b, By *Gods blessed Angell, Thou shalt well know it.
_1386 Chaucer Pard. T. 326 By *goddes Armes if thou falsly pleye [etc.].
_1530 Hickscorner (c1550) E ij, I forsake thy company. Imagynacyon. Goddes armes my company and why.
1575 Gamm. Gurton v. ii, A great deale more (by *Gods blest,) than cheuer by the got.
1549 Latimer 7th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 200 To sweare by *goddes bloude.
1562_3 Jack Jugler (Roxb.) 21 *Godes body horeson thefe who tolde thee that same.
1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. i. 29 (Qo.) Gods bodie. The Turkies in my Panier are quite starued.
_1386 Chaucer Shipm. Prol. 4 For *godis bonys Telle vs a tale.
1573 New Custom iii. i, Else I will smite thee_by goddes bones.
1622 Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 142 *Gods-bores [cf. bore n. and Gog], what a deale of doe is here about nothing?
1535 Lyndesay Satyre 932 That sall wee do, be *Gods breid.
1592 Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. v. 177 Gods bread, it makes me mad.
_1537 Thersites (Roxb.) 64 Ye that I wyll, by *goddes deare brother.
Ibid. 70 By goddes blessed brother Yf [etc.].
_1386 Chaucer Miller's T. 557 By *goddes corpus this goth faire and weel.
1535 Lyndesay Satyre 1943 Be *Gods croun_I sall slay thee.
?_1550 Freiris Berwik 234 in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 293 Awalk for *Goddis deid.
1859 Tennyson Elaine 676 Yea, by *God's death_ye love him well.
1564_78 *Gods dentie [see dentie].
_1386 Chaucer Reeve's T. 350 Thow shalt be deed by *goddes dignitee.
?_1550 Freiris Berwik 295 in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 295, I will thame haif be Goddis dignite.
1599, 1605 *God's dines [see dines].
14_ Sir Beues (Pynson) 2013, _I graunt', sayde Beuys, _by *goddys dome'.
_1460 Towneley Myst. xii. 305, A, *godys dere dominus, what was that sang?
1340 Ayenb. 45 A kny_t wes Þet zuor be *godes e_en.
_1530 Hickscorner (c1550) E ij b, By *goddes fast I was ten yere in Newgate.
_1570 Marr. Wit & Science v. E j b, *Gods fishe hostes and knowe you not mee.
1675 Marvell Corr. Wks. 1872_5 II. 431, I have a passable good estate, I confess, but, God's-fish, I have a great charge upon't.
1716 C'tess Cowper Diary (1864) 95 To which he replied, God's Fish! (that was his common Oath) I don't believe a Word of all this.
_1550 Wever Lusty Juventus D j, Yea by *gods foote that I wyl be busye.
1599 Porter Angry Wom. Abingt. (Percy Soc.) 58 Gods foote---I crye God hartely mercy!
1748 Smollett Rod. Rand. xi, *God's fury! there shall no passangers come here.
1535 Lyndesay Satyre 393 Or _e tuik skaith, be *Gods goun [etc.].
1573 New Custom ii. iii, Nowe by *goddes guttes I will neuer staye Tyll [etc.].
1569 T. Preston Cambyses D iv b, *Gods hat neighbour come away.
_1386 Chaucer Pard. T. 323 By *goddes precious herte and by his nayles.
---- Miller's T. 629 Help for goddes herte.
1573 New Custom ii. iii, Nay by Goddes harte, if I might doe what I list [etc.].
1548 Hall Chron., Edw. V, 19 By *god his blessed lady, I am a bacheler.
1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 238 Gods lady I reckon my selfe as good a man as he.
1598 B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. ii. iii, By *Gods lid, and you had not confest it ----.
1609 Ev. Wom. in Hum. ii. i. in Bullen O. Pl. IV, By Gods-lid, if I had knowne [etc.].
1604 Dekker Honest Wh. (1635) G 3 b, *Gods life, I was ne'r so thrumbed since I was a Gentleman.
1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. iii. 71 (Qo.) *Gods light I was neuer cald so in mine owne house before.
_1603 Heywood Woman killed w. Kindn. (1617) D 4, Gods light, harke within there.
1519 Interl. Four Elem. (Percy Soc.) 36 *Goddis Lorde! seist not who is here now?
1600 Dekker Shoemaker's Holiday (1618) D 4, Gods Lord tis late, to Guild Hall I must hie.
1575 Gamm. Gurton v. ii, *Gods malt, Gammer gurton.
_1386 Chaucer Sqr.'s Prol. 1 Ey *goddes mercy seyde our Hoost tho.
_1540 Heywood Four P.P. (Copland) D j b, No stone left standyng by *goddes mother.
1613 Shakes. Hen. VIII, v. i. 153 Gods blest Mother, I sweare he is true-hearted.
_1460 Towneley Myst. xvi. 116 By *gottys dere nalys I wyll peasse no langer.
1600 Dekker Shoemaker's Holiday (1610) H 2 b, Gods nailes do you thinke I am so base to Gull you?
13_ Sir Beues (A) 2191 Be *godes name, Ichaue for Þe sofred meche shame.
_1460 Towneley Myst. ii. 400 Peasse, man, for *godis payn.
_1386 Chaucer Shipm. Prol. 13 A-bide for *godis digne passion.
1535 Lyndesay Satyre 1438 That sall we do_be Gods passioun.
1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xvii. (Arb.) 194 Gods passion_said she, would thou haue me beare mo children yet?
14_ Sir Beues (Pynson) 2090, I the tel by *goddys pyne.
_1386 Chaucer Melib. Prol. 18 Gladly_by goddes swete pyne.
_1460 Towneley Myst. iii. 227, I swere bi godis pyne.
1569 T. Preston Cambyses B j b, Yea *Gods pittie, begin ye to intreat me?
1592 Greene Upst. Courtier Wks. (Grosart) XI. 219 There were sweete Lillies, *Gods plenty, which shewed faire Virgins neede not weepe for wooers.
1562_3 Jack Jugler (Roxb.) 23 Hens or by *gods precious I shall breake thy necke.
1602 How a man may choose Good Wife K 3, Gods pretious call me dotard.
1599 Porter Angry Wom. Abingt. (Percy Soc.) 59 Go to, mistris; by *Gods pretious deere, If [etc.].
1859 Tennyson Enid 368 Here by *God's rood is the one maid for me.
1575 Gamm. Gurton v. ii, *Gods sacrament the villain knaue hath drest vs round about.
1577 Misogonus ii. iv. 157 (Brandl Quellen 448) *Gods sacringe, I haue lost a noble at two settes.
_1460 Towneley Myst. ii. 458 Bi *Godis sydis, if thou do, I shall [etc.].
_1530 Hickscorner (c1550) E ij, By goddes sydes I had leuer be hanged.
_1386 Chaucer Miller's Prol. 24 By *goddes soul_that wol nat I.
1573 New Custom i. ii, I can not by goddes sowle.
1598 B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. iv. i, Draw, or by *Gods will ile thresh you.
1599 Porter Angry Wom. Abingt. (Percy Soc.) 96 Gods will, tis sir Ralph Smith.
_1550 Wever Lusty Juventus D ij, This is an ernest fellow of *gods worde.
1535 Lyndesay Satyre 991 That sall I nocht, be *Gods wounds.
1573 New Custom ii. iii, By goddes glorious woundes hee was worthy of none.
_ b. With ns. not found in other contexts, and prob. in most instances corrupt or fabricated, as (by) God's bodykins, pittikins (= body, pity); by God's diggers; God's ludd; by God's me (? from 8 b); God's nigs; (by) God's santy, sonties (? = sanctity); God's sokinges. See also Godsookers and Gad n.5 3. Obs.
1602 Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 254 *Gods bodykins man, better.
1651 Cleveland Poems 21 By *Gods-diggers, Hee'l swear in words at large.
1577 Misogonus iv. i. 144 (Brandl Quellen 481) *Gods ludd.
1599 Porter Angry Wom. Abingt. (Percy Soc.) 104 Yet, by *Gods me, Ile take no wrong.
1622 Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 142 *Gods nigs (my masters) you need not find such fault with it.
_1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary iv. i. (1651) 59 Godsnigs the Farme is mine, and must be so.
1600 Dekker Shoemaker's Holiday (1618) C 3, *Gods pittikins, hands off, sir, heres my Lord.
1604 ---- Honest Wh. (1635) K 2, *Gods santy, yonder come Friers.
1596 Shakes. Merch. V. ii. ii. 47 Be *God sonties, 'twill be a hard waie to hit.
1577 Misogonus ii. ii. 1 (Brandl Quellen 437), *Gods sokinges, houlde your handes.
_ c. God's my arms, passion, pity, etc. (by confusion with 14 a and 8 b). Obs.
1577 Misogonus i. iii. 74 (Brandl Quellen 432) Godes my armes.
1599 Chapman Hum. Dayes Myrth Plays 1873 I. 58 Gods my passion what haue I done?
1604 Dekker Honest Wh. (1635) C 4 b, Gods my pittikins, some foole or other knocks.
Ibid. D, Nay, Gods my pitty, what an Asse is that Citizen to lend monie to a Lord!
15. In solemn asseverations, as _ so God me bless, save, etc.; so help me God (see help); as God's my judge, etc. Also with omission of so or as, and occasional corruption of the verb.
_1386 Chaucer Melib. Prol. 4 Also wisly god my soule blesse, Myn eres aken [etc.].
_1460 Towneley Myst. xiii. 550 No, so god me blys.
1589 Tri. Love & Fortune iv. (Roxb.) 120 As god juggle me, when I came neere them [etc.].
1598 B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. ii. ii, I am asham'd of this base course of life, (God's my comfort) but [etc.].
Ibid. iv. i, As Gods my judge, they should haue kild me first.
_1611 Beaum. & Fl. Philaster iv. iii, God uds me, I understand you not.
1842 Tennyson Lady Clare 23 _As God's above_I speak the truth.'

 

IV. attrib. and Comb.
16. Substantive combs.
a. attributive and appositive, as god-belly, -clan, -crocodile, etc., and in pl. gods-avengers, _ -guardians;
_ god-bote (see quot. 1674);
God-box,
(a) slang, a church or other place of worship;
(b) (with lower-case initial) (see quot. 1923);
god-home, nonce-wd., the home of God, heaven; also used by W. Morris as transl. of ON. Goðheimr, the abode of the gods;
god-shelf, a shelf-like shrine of white wood holding the sacred images in a Shinto household;
God slot
[slot n.2 6], a period in a broadcasting schedule regularly reserved for religious programmes;
God squad slang (orig. U.S. Colleges'), (the members of) a religious organization, esp. an evangelical Christian group; those representing the religious interest;
god-tree (a tree worshipped as a god; also see quot. 1866).
1868 Gladstone Juv. Mundi xv. _3 (1869) 527 That under_ground region, in which dwelt the *Gods-Avengers, and which was the realm of Aïdes and Persephone.
1540 R. Wisdome in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. cxv. 322 This article [disbelief in masses for the dead] they take for my greatest Heresie. For indede this wringeth their *God-belly, that his eyes water for pain.
1675 J. Smith Chr. Relig. Appeal ii. 20 That devouring God-belly-gulph Heliogabalus.
_1000 Laws of Æthelred vi. c. 51 in Thorpe Laws I. 328 And _if for *god-botan feoh-bot ariseð.
1674 Blount Glossogr. (ed. 4), God-bote (Sax.), a Fine or amerciament for crimes and offences against God; also an Ecclesiastical or Church fine. [Hence in Phillips, Bailey, and mod. Dicts.]
1923 Ogden & Richards Meaning of Meaning ii. 37 The priests in whom gods were supposed to dwell (a belief which induced the Cantonese to apply the term _*god-boxes' to such favoured personages)---are amongst the victims of this logophobia.
1928 Galsworthy Swan Song iii. xii. 305 This great box---God-box the Americans would call it---had been made centuries before the world became industrialised.
1962 New Statesman 25 May 768/2 A ring-a-ding God-box that will go over big with the flat-bottomed latitudinarians.
1889 R. B. Anderson tr. Rydberg's Teut. Myth. 142 One of the *god-clans has committed the murder.
_1661 B. Holyday Juvenal 272 Whiles_the *god-crocodile seem'd tame, all was well.
1665 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 56 This their *Godfire is not composed of common combustibles.
1876 Morris Sigurd iii. 217 The kin of the *God-folk.
1844 Mrs. Browning Dead Pan xiii, Shall_no hero take inspiring From the *God-Greek of her lips?
1610 Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 125 For all the helpe of these *gods-guardians, there was not one king of them that continued his raigne in peace.
1839 Bailey Festus xiii. (1848) 120 *God-home and glory-land.
1876 Morris Sigurd iii. 216 A burg of people builded for the lords of God-home meet.
Ibid. iv. 379 Round the fettered and bound they throng As men in the bitter battle round the *God-kin over-strong.
1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xv. _122 (1875) 344 All titles of honour are originally the names of the *god-king.
18_ Mrs. Browning Island xxvii, Or Poet Plato, had the undim Unsetting *God-light broke on him.
_1711 Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 109 The holy Jesus_Co-effluent *God-Love on his Spirit shed.
1634 Massinger Very Woman iii. i, They have new creators, *God-tailor, and *God-mercer.
18_ Mrs. Browning Seraph & Poet, The seraph sings before the manifest *God-One.
1772 Nugent tr. Hist. Fr. Gerund I. 522 Building to the *God-Ram the first temple.
1876 F. V. Dickins tr. Chikamatsu's Chiushingura 171 One of these O-harai ought to find a place upon every domestic Kami-dana, or *god-shelf---a small model of a Shinto temple to be found in almost every house, labelled with the names of various deities.
1903 S. L. Gulick Evol. Japanese xxv. 292 There is hardly a house in Japan but has some_of these charms, either nailed on the front door or placed on the god-shelf.
1905 D. Sladen Playing Game xii, They are never too poor to have a little light burning on the god-shelf.
1972 Times 12 Oct. 17/6 Of course there is a balance on TV. Peter Hain and Jimmy Reid get their chance on the *God slot on Sunday, or Late Night Line-up when everybody is in bed.
1985 Sunday Tel. 17 Feb. 3/2 This latest move cuts by half the religious programming on ITV on Sunday afternoon and evening, and could lead to the disappearance of the _God slot', the so-called _closed period' for religious programmes on television.
1697 Dryden Æneid Ded. b 4, Æneas_had the same *God-Smith to Forge his Arms as had Achilles.
1969 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) III. 57 *God squad, Crusade for Christ on Campus.---University of Kentucky. The God Squad will not meet tonight.
1977 Time 26 Dec. 42/3 Cleaver was later converted by a prison _God squad'.
1983 Observer 29 May 3/5 BBC executives_said: _Beware the unexpected---and keep tabs on the God squad.'
1839 Bailey Festus (1854) 412 He in the *God-state first_passed away.
1866 Treas. Bot., *Godtree, Eriodendron anfractuosum.
1896 F. B. Jevons Introd. Hist. Relig. xix. 252 A branch of the god-tree, some actual ears of wheat or maize, are worshipped as Very God.

 

b. objective, as God- (or god-) consciousness, -foe, -hater, -idea, -maker, -monger, etc.; God-dreading, -making vbl. ns.
1894 G. M. Grant Relig. World ii. 29 The *God-consciousness of Israel expanded under the leadership of a long succession of prophets and psalmists.
1914 F. B. Wilson (title) The man of to-morrow. Human evolution impelling man onward to God-consciousness.
_1300 Cursor M. 29205 þe gift o wijt_o *gode dreding.
1615 Chapman Odyss. i. 118 The *God-foe Polypheme.
1643 Vicars (title) A Looking-Glasse for Malignants: or God's hand against *God-haters.
1898 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 429, I am now using the *God-idea merely as an example, not to discuss as to its truth or error.
1910 E. S. Ames Psychol. Relig. Experience 319 The God-idea is a teleological idea.
1924 W. B. Selbie Psychol. Relig. 119 The origin of the god-idea varies with different peoples.
1949 Horizon Mar. 225 However primary and archetypical the God-idea may be.
1541 Barnes Wks. (1573) 340/1 Now woulde I knowe of these new *Godmakers, by whose power and helpe that the first Sainte came into heauen.
1875 M. Arnold Isa. xl_lxvi. Notes 122 This God-maker is hungry and faint, even at the very time that he is at his God-making.
1613 Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 652 Art_in this matter of *God-making, commonly gets the upper hand.
1883 J. Parker Apost. Life II. 206 You will be but jostling a whole crowd of *god-mongers.
1647 Trapp Comm. John iii. 15 By like reason we may say that sin is *God-murther.
---- Comm. Rom. i. 30 Haters of God. And so *God-murtherers.
---- Comm. Coloss. i. 21 Haters of God_and so *God-slaiers.
---- Mellif. Theol. in Comm. Ep. 730 This is Deicidium, *God-slaughter.
1681 Dryden Abs. & Achit. 50 Gods they had tried of every shape and size That *god-smiths could produce, or priests devise.
1895 Spurgeon in Daily News 7 Oct. 6/4 When I was at Pompeii I saw a God-smith's shop. He had several statues finished up to the face.
c. possessive (see also 5 f), as
_ God's band, the bond of marriage;
_ God's board (see board n. 6);
_ God's body, the sacramental bread;
God's book, the Bible;
_ God's chest, the temple-treasury;
_ God's cope (see cope n.3 2);
God's (own) country (see country 2 b);
God's-daughter, _ day (see quots.);
_ god's eye
[= med.L. Oculus Christi], clary; also (see quot. 1880);
God's-eye-view, a view as seen by God;
_ god's flower, Helichrysum St_chas (Treas. Bot. 1866);
God's (own) gift, a godsend;
_ god's guests, strangers, chance comers;
_ god's house, (a) ? a pyx, (b) an almshouse
[cf. F. maison Dieu];
god's image, the human body (after Genesis i. 27);
_ god's kichel (see quot.);
_ god's marks (see quot. 1558);
God's quantity colloq., a large amount; an abundance;
god's service, _in Coverdale
[after Ger. gottesdienst] = worship, an act of worship;
_ god's sond, send, what is sent by God; hence, worldly possessions (cf. God's good);
god's Sunday (see quots.);
_ god's tokens = God's marks. See also God's acre, God's good, God's-penny.
In OE. and ME. the possessive was also employed in such phrases as God's church, house, lamb, man, mother, son, word, etc. where the modern expression commonly is the church, house, etc. of God; see the various ns.
1375 Barbour Bruce iv. 41 Hyr dochtir_Was coupillyt in_to *goddis band, With Walter, stewart off Scotland.
1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 313 A wenche_fenge *Goddes body an Ester day.
1549 Ponet Def. Marr. Priests 45 He hadde the same day sayde masse (which he called the makynge of Gods body).
971, 1548 *God's book [see book n. 14].
1635 D. Dickson Hebr. vi. 28 As manie Plagues as are written in God's Booke.
1535 Coverdale Mark xii. 41 Iesus sat ouer agaynst the *Gods chest & behelde how the people put money in to the Gods chest.
1520_53 *God's cope [see cope n.3 2].
1598 Florio, Montemari, impossibilities, gods cope, heauen and earth, seas and mountaines.
_1440 Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 292 He mordryth *goddys dow_ter, Þat is, his owen soule.
14_ Exortacio in die Pasche in Hampson Medii Ævi Kal. I. 186 [The Paschal Day] in some place is callede Esterne Day, and in sum place *Goddes Day.
14_ MS. Sloane No. 5 in Halliwell s.v., *Godeseie, gallitritum.
1880 Britten & Holland Plant.-n., God's Eye Veronica Chamædrys.
1920 *God's-eye view [see eye view].
1936 A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza vii. 85 One has made a habit of not feeling anything very strongly; it's easy, therefore, to take the God's-eye view of things.
1970 Guardian 14 May 9/6 Frank Tuohy's_short stories_are mostly studies in suburban isolation,_the God's-eye-view with God on the stage.
1597 Gerarde Herball ii. cxcvii. _ 5. 522 Golden Flower is called in Latine Coma aurea _in English Golde Flower, *Gods Flower, and Golden St_cados.
1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xvi. 199 Mynstralcie can ich nat muche bote make men murye_and welcome *godes gistes.
_1400 Plowman's T. 747 On the pore they woll nought spend Ne no good give to goddes gest.
1938 _E. Queen' Four of Hearts (1939) i. i. 9 (heading) *God's gift to Hollywood.
1941 M. Allingham Traitor's Purse xx. 228 Amanda was God's own gift to anyone in a hole.
1953 H. Clevely Public Enemy xxi. 151 It may do him a bit of good to find out he isn't God's gift to women walking the earth.
1377_8 Durham Acct. Rolls 387 Item in uno Chaliskays et uno *Godeshous pro rotulis officii, vjd.
1425 in Entick London (1766) IV. 354 The same house to be called for ever God's-house, or almes-house.
1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 284 Sir Richard de Abberbury_founded for poore people a Gods-house [Note, Almeshouse].
1837 Col. Thompson Sp. Ho. Com. 19 May, Many in that House were old enough to have seen *God's image sorely mangled_for what were termed political offences.
1598 Speght Chaucer's Wks. B bbb, A cake_called a *Gods kichell, because godfathers and god-mothers vsed commonly to giue one of them to their god-children, when they asked blessing.
1531 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 105 He_also was full of *Godys markys.
1558 Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. (1568) 39 A very good remedye agaynst the markes of the plague, commonly called Goddes markes.
1630 J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. i. 59/2 Some with Gods markes or Tokens doe espie, Those Marks or Tokens, shew them they must die.
1911 C. E. W. Bean _Dreadnought' of Darling xxviii. 242 There was *God's quantity of fish.
1922 Joyce Ulysses 287 Big foxy thief_lifted any God's quantity of tea and sugar.
1679 J. Brown Life Faith (1716) II. xv. 127 We should make the Cross of Christ wel_come, because it is *God's Send.
1535 Coverdale 2 Sam. xv. 8, I shal do a *Gods seruyce vnto the Lorde.
---- Acts xvii. 23, I haue gone thorow & sene youre gods seruyce.
1306 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 223 Alle Þe oÞer pouraille_mihten be ful blyÞ e ant thonke *godes sonde.
_1386 Chaucer Shipman's T. 219 Ye have ynough pardee of goddes sonde.
_1440 York Myst. xiii. 217 With synne was I never filid, Goddis sande is on me sene.
14_ Exortacio in die Pasche in Hampson Medii Ævi Kal. II. 184 þis is callede in some place Astur Day; & in sum place Pasche Day, & in summe place *Godeis Sunday.
1483 Festival d iiij, This day also is callyd goddes sonday. For crist goddes sone thys day rose from deth to lyf.
1582 J. Hester Secr. Phiorav. iii. xxix. 45 *Gods tokens, the whiche commonly come vnto those that haue the Pestilent Feuer.
17. Participial combinations.
a. With active pples. (chiefly objective), as God-adoring, -affronting, etc.
_1711 Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 326 A *God-adoring Race.
1671 M. Bruce Good News Evil Times (1708) 10 The most *God-affronting Perjury.
1885 W. de G. Birch Life Harold Prol. 105 The glorious and *God-bearing Cross.
_1649 Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 33 Men awless, lawless live_a *God-contemning race.
Ibid. 34 *God-despising wights.
_1711 Ken Hymnarium Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 111 The Sin, which_from the *God-detesting Spirit streams.
1895 J. Smith Message Exod. xv. 250 This *God-disowning, good-defying spirit.
1718 Rowe tr. Lucan 180 The wily, fearful, *God-dissembling Maid.
1673 J. Janeway Heaven on E. (1847) 294 *God-estranging sins.
1850 Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. iv. 39 Putrid unveracities and *godforgetting greedinesses.
1603 Harsnet Pop. Impost. 73 The *God-gastring Giants, whom Jupiter overwhelmed with Pelion and Ossa.
1607 R. C. tr. Estienne's World of Wonders i. i. 20 They tell vs strange tales of god-gastering Giants, who heaped mightie mountains one vpon another.
_1711 Ken Urania Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 448 *God-hymning Saints.
---- Blandina ibid. 519 *God-intenerating Pray'rs.
1678 Gale Crt. Gentiles iii. 65 Christ's crucifixion_was a sin_containing_*God-killing bloud-guiltinesse.
1838 S. Bellamy Betrayal 64 Example fair Thou wast, of *God-loving humility.
1639 Fuller Holy War ii. xxxvii. (1640) 93 A *God-mocking equivocation.
1860 Pusey Min. Proph. 306 Amaziah and the *God-opposing party.
1612 Drayton Poly-olb. v. 76 Her *God-resembling sonne [Achilles].
1892 J. Hutchison Our Lord's Signs i. 25 A believing *God-seeing heart.
b. With passive pple. (chiefly instrumental), as God-begotten, -built, -created, etc.
1929 W. B. Yeats Winding Stair 11 And *God-appointed Berkeley that proved all things a dream.
1894 C. L. Johnstone Canada 56 Carrying on the *God-assigned task of conquering the earth.
_1602 Drayton Heroic. Ep. xi. 80 That horse of fame, that *God-begotten steed.
1839 Bailey Festus i. (1848) 3 All souls, impregned with spirit, God-begot.
1838 J. Stevenson tr. Beda's Eccl. Hist. (1853) 577 That_the sanctity of the *God-beloved further might be manifested to the faithful.
1715_20 Pope Iliad xiii. 1030 Your boasted city, and your *god-built wall.

 

1715_20 Pope Iliad vi. 236 The_*god-descended chief.
1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xv. _122 (1875) 344 Presently others of the god-descended race were similarly saluted.
1845 Whittier in Amer. Liberty Almanac 1846 26 And the solemn priest to Moloch, on each *God-deserted shrine.
1895 W. M. Ramsay St. Paul x. ii. 216 The usual type of *God-driven devotees.
1868 Ld. Houghton Select. fr. Wks. 105 The greatest of all possible gifts, Which *God-empowered man can give to man.
_1711 Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 129 Food to ev'ry *God-enamour'd Mind.
1860 Pusey Min. Proph. 562 Let the *God-enlightened soul go on [etc.].
1864 ---- Lect. Daniel ii. 61 Human power_has a majesty, lent it by God, even when it abuses the *God-entrusted gift.
1675 Hobbes Odyss. (1677) 34 Choisest meat, Which none but *god-fed kings eat.
1643 Milton Divorce i. ii. 6 If the woman be naturally so of disposition, as will not help to remove_that same *God-forbidd'n loneliness, which [etc.].
1889 R. Buchanan Heir of Linne vi, _A *God-forgotten place', he said at last, as the dog-cart stopped.
1888 A. J. Butler Dante, Par. ii. 17 The *God-formed realm.
1863 Tennyson Milton in Cornh. Mag. Dec. 707 *God-gifted organ-voice of England.
1907 _D. Donovan' Gold-spinner i. 1 _God-gifted and beautiful' was Helga Arnold!
1800 Asiat. Ann. Reg., Chron. India 31/2 This *God-given victory.
1865 Seeley Ecce Homo ii. (ed. 8) 14 The Messiah was_to crush all opposition by God-given might.
1711 Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) II. 337 In this case 'tis not a self-govern'd but a *God-govern'd machine.
1927 W. B. Yeats October Blast 22 These *God-hated children.
1860 Pusey Min. Proph. 287 The natural *God-implanted feeling is the germ of the spiritual.
1865 Mill Comte 30 Hippocrates_could say with impunity, speaking of what were called the *god-inflicted diseases, that to his mind they were neither more nor less god-inflicted than all others.
1936 L. MacNeice tr. Aeschylus' Agamemnon 52 From whence these rushing and God-inflicted Profitless pains?
1622 Drayton Poly-olb. xxiv. 505 That *God inspired man, with heauenly goodnesse fild.
1839 Bailey Festus xx. (1848) 265 God-inspired To utter truth.
1839 Longfellow Hyperion ii. vi. (1853) 103 He is what the Transcendentalists call a *God-intoxicated man.
1877 E. Caird Philos. Kant iii. 43 Spinoza is more truly described by Novalis as a God-intoxicated man.
1870 Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 246 Grief must he hide_If he would be *god-loved and conquering still.
1598 Drayton Heroic. Ep. xii. 69 Nor do I boast my *God-made Grandsires skars.
1860 Pusey Min. Proph. 336 The *God-opposed world.
1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. vii, New Churches, where the true *God-ordained_may find audience, and minister.
1884 _Rita' Vivienne vi. i, One of those *God-sent chances which sometimes befriend us in our hours of peril.
1838 S. Bellamy Betrayal 61 Nor longer tarrieth, *God-sped, and fain His course to finish.
1886 Ruskin Time & Tide 20 The wisely sharp methods of Godsped courage.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus lxii. 30 When shone an happier hour than thy *god-speeded arriving?
1676 Cudworth Serm. 1 John ii. 3, 4 (ed. 3) 40 He is a true Christian indeed_that is *God-taught.
1839 Bailey Festus viii. (1848) 91 His *God-vouched inheritance of Heaven.
1870 Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 24 Some *god-wrought eagle-wings.
18. Adjective combinations, as _ God-full, _ -unlike. Also godful, godlike.
1609 J. Davies Holy Roode F 3 b, Wilt be so God vnlike, to see thy God Embrace the Whip, and thou abhorre the Rod?
1648 Herrick Farewell vnto Poetrie 22 in Hesper. (1869) 440 Those god-full prophets.

 

God Is the Machine


IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS 0. AND THEN THERE WAS 1. A MIND-BENDING MEDITATION ON THE TRANSCENDENT POWER OF DIGITAL COMPUTATION.

By Kevin Kelly

At today's rates of compression, you could download the entire 3 billion digits of your DNA onto about four CDs. That 3-gigabyte genome sequence represents the prime coding information of a human body — your life as numbers. Biology, that pulsating mass of plant and animal flesh, is conceived by science today as an information process. As computers keep shrinking, we can imagine our complex bodies being numerically condensed to the size of two tiny cells. These micro-memory devices are called the egg and sperm. They are packed with information.



Image by Alex Ostroy

That life might be information, as biologists propose, is far more intuitive than the corresponding idea that hard matter is information as well. When we bang a knee against a table leg, it sure doesn't feel like we knocked into information. But that's the idea many physicists are formulating.




http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/holytech.html

 

I don't consider the concept of "god" to be bullshit. I do not subscribe to it because I find too many contradictions in it and I would betray my own mind if I evaded that knowledge just to provide myself with emotional closure about issues I do not and probably never will understand. I won't pretend I do.

But I completely understand why some find meaning and comfort in it and I won't spend my days trying to destroy what others have built their life upon, as long as they don't try to destroy mine.

As to this thread, I find an overwhelming preponderance of the definitive references directly cite or else infer from the supernatural meaning of the phrase. Sure, there are a few other assignments. But in this context, like "mother," reasonable people acknowledge that it doesn't mean "father."

In 1954 and still with its proponents today, the phrase "under God" in the Pledge connotes its traditional significance. It refers to a supernatural entity which has dominion over all of us as Americans. And thus its continued inclusion remains a direct affront to the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and to the true spirit on which this great country was founded. Stu has it right.

Anyway, enjoy the BS, uh er... tussles.

Without me!

http://religion.aynrand.org/quotes.html

 

Ahhhh, perhaps another cult groupie speaks?

Yes, Ayn Rand followers are followers of a cult.

Anyway, we will see if the Supreme Court Agrees with your conclusion.

Even if the word God has a religious meaning for those who hear it, where is the instruction in any state or government document to hear it in a religious way?

Those who would remove the word God are going to have to show that the government is doubtlessly using the word God in a religious sense to promote religion, and you are going to have to show without the possibility for doubt where some constitutional freedom is being abridged by its usage in the pledge, and on money.

Separation from Church and State is not as clearly defined as you would have it.

We have to know exactly what the word "Church" meant when it was used in the Constitution.

Good luck.

" . . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner, 256 U.S. 345, 349 (1921) (Holmes, J.). . . . "
SOURCE: Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)

 

I'll remind you as I mentioned on other threads that I came to my conclusions on my own nearly a half century ago, and found that Ayn Rand's writings were aligned with my observations and conclusions.

Since she devoted her life to philosophical issues, she also made phenomenal contributions to my understanding that I alone would never have discovered.

That is the nature of real genius as opposed to, say, cleverness.

In the future, leave your ridiculous innuendo of me as a person out of your written and public appraisals, particularly when none so far has ever been on point, accurate, relevant, or in the least significant.

What I wrote on the topic of this thread stands on its own for reasonable people to take or leave. And I do not judge its correctness based on how many people agree with me, including the Supreme Court.

 

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