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Oct. 18, 2014
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\DEE-uh-fawrm\
adjective
1. godlike or divine in form or nature.
Quotes
Here chiefly, in the aggrandizement of a huge and fearsome animal to deiform proportions, does Melville surpass all other poets of his century in the rejuvenation of myth.
-- Newton Arvin, Herman Melville, 1950
Origin
Deiform comes from the Medieval Latin word deiformis, a combination of dei- (meaning "god") and -formis (meaning "having the form of").
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