godlike

[Eng. God, and like.] 1. Like a god; having the qualities of a god; divine. "Whose small sparkes once blowne None but a god or godlike man can shake." Spenser: F. Q., IV. ii. 1. 2. Po e ing some of the attributes of God; godly. "Thus the godlike angel answered mild." Milton: P. L., vii. 110. IMG:content-0598.png:[blocks in formation] 4. Of the highest excellence; preeminently good. "The woman's cause is man's: they sink or rise Together, dwarfed or godlike , bond or free." Tennyson: Prince , vii. 244. Crabb thus discriminates between godlike , divine and heavenly: "Godlike is a more expre ive, but le common term than divine : the former is used only as an epithet of peculiar praise for an individual; divine is generally employed for that which 2037 appertains to a superior being, in distinction from that which is human. As divine is opposed to human, so is heavenly to earthly; the Divine Being distinguishes the Creator from all other beings; but a heavenly being denotes the angels or inhabitants of heaven , in distinction from earthly beings or the inhabitants of earth." (Crabb: Eng. Synon .)