theo-, the-, -theism, -theist, -theistic +
(Greek: God, god, deity, divine)
theomania
1. Delusion of being inspired by God.
2. A delusion that one is God.
3. A madness that is reputedly caused or inspired by God.
4. Religious insanity; especially that in which the patient thinks he or she is a deity or has divine inspiration to carry out some divine mission.
theomaniac
One who is affected by theomania or who tends to lead religious cults often with destructive objectives.
theomantic
Pertaining to theomancy.
theomastix
1. The scourge of God or appointed by God.
2. When a deity or the deities are thoroughly fed up with mankind, the result is a
theomastix.
Essentially, the word is a synonym of a plague or a divinely constituted punishment of mortals; such as, the Biblical flood.
theometry
A measurement or estimation of God.
theomicrist
1. Someone who makes fun of or who belittles God.
2. A person who mocks God or divinity.
theomisanthropist
Someone who hates God and mankind.
A priest is trying to encourage a man to attend church, but the man is showing his hatred for both religion and apparently for people who are participants in church functions.
theomorphic, theomorphism
In the form or likeness of a deity; having a godlike form or aspect.
theonomy
The state of being governed by God, a god, or by priests.
theopantism
The doctrine that God is all that exists.
theopathetic
Characterized by theopathy.
theopathic
The mystic of the theopathetic species is content to contemplate, to feel, or to act, suffering under Deity, in his sublime passivity.
theopathy
1. An intense or abnormal absorption in matters pertaining to God.
2. Sympathetic passive feeling excited by the contemplation of God; susceptibility to this feeling; sensitiveness or responsiveness to divine influence; pious sentiment.
theophagous
The practice of ingesting a god.
It probably stemmed from the ancient habit of eating the sacred animal to secure a blessing, a grace, and an identity with the deity.
theophagy
1. The practice or ritual eating god, or of the thing symbolizing god, such as a sacrament.
2. The eating of God (in the mass or communion rite); the communion.
3. In anthropology, the eating of meals at which the participants believe that they ingest a deity with the consecrated food.
Theo Quiz #1.
Related religious-word units:
church;
dei-, div-;
ecclesi-;
fanati-;
hiero-;
idol-;-olatry;
zelo-.
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