By our own spirits we are deified

Words worth. deign (dān), v. t. [ IMG:content-2269.png:[blocks in formation] deipara , fem. adj.: see deiparous .] The Mother of God; the Theotocos: a title of the Virgin Mary. See Theotocos . deiparoust (de-ipa-rus), a. [ deipara , fem. adj., deus , a god, + parere , bear, bring forth.] Bearing or bringing forth a god: an epithet applied to the Virgin Mary. Bailey . Deipnosophist (dip-nos'ō-fist), n. [ πνοσοφιστής , sing. of Δειπνοσοφισταί , Deipnosophistæ, the name of a work of Athenæus (see the def.), lit. 'the learned men at dinner,' σοφιστής , a learned man: see sophist .] One who converses learnedly at dinner: in allusion to the title (see the etymology) of a celebrated work of Athenæus, in which a number of learned men are represented as at dinner discoursing on literature and matters of the table. The eye is the only note-book of the true poet; but a patchwork of second-hand memories is a laborious futility, hard to unite and harder to read, with about as much nature in it as a dialogue of the Deipnosophists . Lowell , Study Windows, p. 222. 3. To vouchsafe; condescend: with an infinideirbhfine, Middir. Ensee geilfine . IMG:content-2270.png:[blocks in formation] The Son of God deigned not to exert His power before Herod, after Moses' pattern; nor to be judged by the mul. titude, as Elijah. J. H. Newman , Parochial Sermons, i. 301. [Used impersonally in early English. On her wo ne deyneth him not to thinke.