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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A demigod.

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Examples

  • Ah, what better than having an effigy of the semi-god you worship…

    Think Progress » The solution for all your holiday shopping problems. 2006

  • He thought Gordon a semi-god, a worker of miracles, and urged the putting up of a monument to him at once in the public plaza, to which Albert objected, on the ground that it would be too suggestive of an idol; and to which Stedman also objected, but for the less unselfish reason that it would "be in the way of the pitcher's box."

    The Reporter Who Made Himself King 1891

  • He thought Gordon a semi-god, a worker of miracles, and urged the putting up of a monument to him at once in the public plaza, to which

    Cinderella And Other Stories Richard Harding Davis 1890

  • He thought Gordon a semi-god, a worker of miracles, and urged the putting up of a monument to him at once in the public plaza, to which Albert objected, on the ground that it would be too suggestive of an idol; and to which Stedman also objected, but for the less unselfish reason that it would "be in the way of the pitcher's box."

    The Reporter Who Made Himself King Richard Harding Davis 1890

  • He thought Gordon a semi-god, a worker of miracles, and urged the putting up of a monument to him at once in the public plaza, to which Albert objected, on the ground that it would be too suggestive of an idol; and to which Stedman also objected, but for the less unselfish reason that it would "be in the way of the pitcher's box."

    The Exiles and Other Stories Richard Harding Davis 1890

  • When I was diagnosed my diabetologist would have received his medical training in the late 1950s early 1960s I guess and his teachers would have been practising medicine in the pre and post-war periods where doctors, like teachers, lawyers and policemen, were seen as semi-god like creatures.

    Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes 2009

  • When I was diagnosed my diabetologist would have received his medical training in the late 1950s early 1960s I guess and his teachers would have been practising medicine in the pre and post-war periods where doctors, like teachers, lawyers and policemen, were seen as semi-god like creatures.

    Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes Mike LeBlanc 2009

  • When I was diagnosed my diabetologist would have received his medical training in the late 1950s early 1960s I guess and his teachers would have been practising medicine in the pre and post-war periods where doctors, like teachers, lawyers and policemen, were seen as semi-god like creatures.

    Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes 2009

  • To put it in a nutshell: Hideki Kaji is a semi-god.

    Pop 'n Cherries 2008

  • The Inca was a semi-god and the son of Inti, the main deity of the Quechua people.

    www.Perublogs.com Todos los Blogs del Perú 2008

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