They supposed an art, a power, or a wisdom, which they called numen, in creatures the most destitute of understanding. From Wordnik.com. [The Existence of God] Reference
“numinous” from the Latin word numen, which denoted a supernatural nonpersonalized being. From Wordnik.com. [ORIGINS OF RELIGION] Reference
Wel fagen he was of here come for he was numen ðor to nome. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts] Reference
Remember your own motto, Nullum numen abest si sit prudentia. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
Are you sure Frye characterizes the hero as necessarily a numen?. From Wordnik.com. [A Theory of Modes and Modalities] Reference
Nomina - numina: what was at the beginning a name, nomen, became a divinity, numen. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Nec se reiciebat a blanditiis doctissimus puer, sed me numen inimicum ibi quoque invenit. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference
“It begins with the awful …” — i.e. with the monstrum — “and then finds comfort” — i.e. in the numen. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
Hylopathian atheism, which attributes all to matter, Cosmo-plastic atheism which makes the world-soul the highest numen. From Wordnik.com. [The Cambridge Platonists] Reference
"Prodigy" is a perfect term, I'd say, for the "human numen" (hmm ... try saying that ten times in a row as fast as you can). From Wordnik.com. [A Theory of Modes and Modalities] Reference
To be clear "the characterisation of the hero as numen" I'm referring to is specifically the characterisation of the hero of romance. From Wordnik.com. [A Theory of Modes and Modalities] Reference
Nunc, nunc adefte, nunc in hoftiks demcs Iram atque numen vertite. From Wordnik.com. [Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera] Reference
I do not say that he or any other numen was the better for the change. From Wordnik.com. [The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus] Reference
He looked at her, inquiring of her whole person what numen abode in the fane. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Falconer] Reference
Tu quoties crebris cumulaili altaria donis Multa rogans numen, cui vinfta jugalia curas!. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
Tu quoties crebris cumulafti altaria donis Multa rogans numen, cui vincla j ugalia curs!. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
Nihil in speciem fallacius est quàm prava religio, ubi deorum numen prætenditur sceleribus. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)] Reference
Not yet apparently had its numen forsaken it, for through him passed a thrill at the discovery. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock o' Glenwarlock] Reference
Dasarathus filiorum desiderio castimoniis adstrictus, fidei plenus, vestrum numen adoravit sacrificio equino. From Wordnik.com. [Ramayana. English] Reference
Adefte dii teftes foedeiis: & cxpetitc pocnasdcbitas ilmul vobis violatis, nobifque pei vefbum numen deceptis. From Wordnik.com. [Conciones et orationes ex historicis Latinis excerptae : argumenta singulis praefixa sunt, quae causam cujusque & summam ex rei gestae occasione explicant : opus recognitum recensitumque in usum scholarum Hollandiae & Westfrisiae.] Reference
It was customary for the emperors to mention (in the preamble of laws) their numen, sacreo majesty, divine oracles, &c. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1] Reference
VIII to the close of James I, -- 'nullum numen abest, si sit prudentia', -- and of those of Charles I to the Restoration. From Wordnik.com. [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
Moles, Virites, Nerio, and perhaps others too, seem to mean the strength or force inherent in the numen; Cerfius, or Cerus, as the. From Wordnik.com. [The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus] Reference
Gallos attribuunt y quia numen qui violsbrint Matris, & ingrati Genitoribus inventi Cmt, 6\f Significare volunt indignos efle putandos. From Wordnik.com. [T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex] Reference
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