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The wealthy family selected some one to attend to its god, and to minister unto his wants, and the poor family contributed, according to its means, towards a common fund for providing a dwelling-house for the god, and for vestments, etc. But the god was an integral part of the family, whether rich or poor, and its destiny was practically locked up with that of the family.

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  1. noun A being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions.
  2. noun The force, effect, or a manifestation or aspect of this being.
  3. noun A being of supernatural powers or attributes, believed in and worshiped by a people, especially a male deity thought to control some part of nature or reality.
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  • We chose the Jolly Frog because I had read good reviews about the place, and my god were they right! —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • "If everybody can't be right, and MILLIONS of people believe YOUR god is total bullcrap and their god is the true god, how can ANY religion, in any way, be factual?" —  بالاترین
  • If you're going to argue that your god is the creator of everything like in the Book of Genesis then yes evolution does disprove the existence of your god because creating all life on earth as it is described in the Bible is part of who your god. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • This god is the god of all religions including the Christian religion, Judaism and Islam. —  بالاترین
  • Mark the fool, go to school, learn something useful instead of retelling the lies you've been told … your god is a mass murder of the highest order … and you worship this devil? —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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  1. Middle English, from Old English; see gheu(ə)- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English god, godd, plural godes, goddes, from Anglo-Saxon god, masculine (plural godas), also god, n. (plural godu), rarely *goda (in genitive plural godena), masculine, = Old Saxon OFries. D. god = Middle Low German got, Low German god = Old High German got, cot, Middle High German got, German gott = Icelandic godh, neuter plural, later gudh, masculine (plural gudhir), = Swedish Danish gud = Goth, guth, masculine, gutha, guda, neuter plural, a god, God: a word common to all Teutonic tongues, in which it has numerous derivatives, but not identified outside of Teutonic It was orig. neuter, and generally in the plural, being applied to the heathen deities, and elevated to the Christian sense upon the conversion of the Teutonic peoples. Popular etymology has long derived God from good; but a comparison of the forms (see good) shows this to be an error. Moreover, the notion of goodness is not conspicuous in the heathen conception of deity, and in good itself the ethical sense is comparatively late.
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