The most frequently used name for the Islamicgod is Allah.
2002, Chuck Palahniuk,Lullaby:
When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as agod or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.
Thegods usually have several wizards, or "immortals," to assist them in building the MUD.
2003, David Lojek,Emote to the Max, page11:
The wizzes are only the junior grade of the MUD illuminati. The people who attain the senior grade of MUD freemasonry by starting their own MUD, with all due hubris, are known asgods.
The wordgod is often applied both to males and to females. The word was originally neuter in Proto-Germanic; monotheistic – notably Judeo-Christian – usage completely shifted the gender to masculine, necessitating the development of a feminine form,goddess. (In Old English the femininegyden, as well as a more explicitly marked masculinegoda, existed.)
1530,William Tyndall, “An aunſwere vnto Syr Thomas Mores Dialogue”, inThe whole workes of W. Tyndall[…], published1573,page271:
And ſuch is to beare yͤ names ofgod with croſſes betwene ech name about them.
2005, Diane L. Gabriel,Angel of My Heart,→ISBN, page46:
“I say fuck it. Fuckgod and fuck all the religions that praise him.”
2010 [6th century],Boethius, translated by Andrew Smith,On Aristotle, On Interpretation 1–3,page136:
For if the necessity of events is bound up withgod’s knowledge, if there is no necessity in events, the divine knowledge is abolished. And whose mind is so distorted by such an impious idea that he would dare to say this ofgod?
2012,Penn Jillette,God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales,→ISBN,page77:
If I ask you if you believe ingod, I just want to know if you have an imaginary omnipotent friend who you really believe lives outside of you in the real world.
2016, Andrew Sneddon,A is for Atheist: An A to Z of the Godfree Life[1],→ISBN:
Perhaps what is needed is just the right attitude: one’s heart should be open togod in order to hear his messages.[…] It does not matter: such claims only prove my point about the communicative shortcomings of so-called divine signs.
2017, Myrto Hatzimichali, “Stoicism and Platonism in ‘Arius Didymus’”, inTroels Engberg-Pedersen, editor,From Stoicism to Platonism: The Development of Philosophy, 100 BCE–100 CE,→ISBN,page91:
This is the formulation of the moral end as ‘assimilation togod’, which would become standard in later Platonism.
Then got he bow and shafts of gold and lead, / In which so fell and puissant he grew, / That Jove himselfe his powre began to dread, / And, taking up to heaven, himgodded new.
1951,Eric Voegelin, Dante Germino ed.,The New Science of Politics: An Introduction, published1987, page125:
The superman marks the end of a road on which we find such figures as the "godded man" of English Reformation mystics
⁊ leıtıs ⁊ voıces ⁊ þundꝛıngıs camen out of þe troone. ⁊ ſeuene lau[m]pıs bꝛe[n]nynge bıfoꝛe þe troone.· whıche ben þe ſeuene ſpırıtıs ofgod
And lightning, sounds, and thunder came out of the throne, and seven lamps were burning in front of the throne, which are the seven spirits ofGod.
a.1450,The Creation and the Fall of Lucifer inThe York Plays, as recorded c. 1463–1477 in British Museum MS. Additional 35290:
I am gracyus and grete,god withoutyn begynnyng, / I am maker vnmade, all mighte es in me, / I am lyfe and way vnto welth-wynnyng, / I am formaste and fyrste, als I byd sall it be.
I am gracious and great,God without beginning, / I am the unmade maker—all might is in me, / I am life and the way to the attainment of salvation, / I am foremost and first—as I command, it shall be.
Nāst þū lā Geori þæt ūregodas swincað mid þē and ġit hī synd ġeþyldiġe þæt hī þe miltsion. Nū lǣre ic ðē swā swā lēofne sunu þæt ðū þæra cristenra lāre forlǣte mid ealle and tō mīnum rǣde hraðe ġebūge swā þæt ðū offriġe þām ārwurðan Appoline and þū mycelne wurðmynt miht swā beġitan.
Knowest thou not, O George, that ourgods are striving with thee, and even yet they are patient, that they may pity thee; now I exhort thee, as a beloved son, that thou altogether quit the Christians' doctrine, and quickly incline to my counsel, so that thou sacrifice to the venerable Apollo, and thou mayest so obtain great honour.
Nu ge þam mærumgodum offrian nellað, ne beo ge me næfre heonon-forð swa wurðe ne swa leofe swa ge ær wæron...
Since ye will not offer to the greatgods, ye shall never henceforth be to me so worthy nor so dear as ye were before;...
c.1021,Wulfstan,Winchester Code of Cnut, article 5.1:
Hǣðensċipe biþ þæt man dēofolġield weorðiġe, þæt is þæt man weorðiġe hǣðenugodu and sunnan oþþe mōnan, fȳr oþþe flōd, wæterwiellas oþþe stānas oþþe ǣniġes cynnes wudutreowu, oþþe wiċċecræft lufiġe oþþe morðweorc ġefremme on ǣniġe wisan, oþþe on blōte oþþe frihte, oþþe swelcra gedwimera ǣniġ þing drēoge.
Paganism is when you practice idolatry, that is, when you worship heathengods and the sun or the moon, or fire or flood, or wells or stones or any kind of forest trees, or if you love witchcraft or commit murderous acts in any way, whether by sacrifice or by divination, or take any part in such delusions.
In cases wheregod andbra are idiomatically interchangeable,god often sounds a bit old-fashioned.
"God mat" only refers to taste (and is idiomatic when describing food as tasty). "Good food" in a more general sense (well-made, nutritious, tasty, etc. – context-dependent) is "bra mat."
1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 2 Dated or archaic. 3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 2 Dated or archaic. 3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
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