Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- All-creative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective All-creating.
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- adjective Capable of
making ordoing anything ; all-creating.
Etymologies
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Examples
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One of the great works of the omnific Touring Club de France is the preparation of what might be called pictorial inventories of the historical monuments and natural curiosities of France made on the large-scale maps of the Etat Major.
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In relation to his creations, the poet is the omnific spirit in whom they have their being.
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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The bars, bolts, and rock-ribbed jaws of the grave began to swell and heave as if moved by the omnific hand of
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898
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Smitten by the omnific hand from the fair fields of the paradise of God, hear him cry as he flies like a mighty scintillating spark struck off from its native sun, as Milton describes:
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898
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Touched by the omnific finger of God's love, and set to the dulcet strains of joy, the song of redemption shall go ringing through the nations, down the declivities of time, thread the centers of civilization, cross the howling sea of death, and ring on up to God and heaven, and thence through the countless ages, and the evolving cycles of endless duration.
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Judgment-seat of cloud, raises an omnific hand to curse, the master caused each fibre of his complex composition to thrill with the tremendous passion of that coming sentence.
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti John Addington Symonds 1866
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Kabalah; Creation effected by the omnific letter of the, 14-u.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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I will not insult your good sense by lamenting the exigencies of the present times, as doubtless it always dictates to you to be (whilst travelling through the mazy labyrinth of joy and sorrow) humble in the lucent days of prosperity and omnific in the tenebricous moments of adversity. "
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" J. L. Cherry
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I will not insult your good sense by lamenting the exigencies of the present times, as doubtless it always dictates to you to be (whilst travelling through the mazy labyrinth of joy and sorrow) humble in the lucent days of prosperity and omnific in the tenebricous moments of adversity.”
Life and Remains of John Clare Cherry, J L 1872
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Triangle, in the centre of which is the omnific letter of the Kabalah, by which creation is said to have been effected. "
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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