Those which they call their tutelar deities shall be no protection to them. ❋ Unknown (1721)
Note: 1 The Americans sometimes called their tutelar saint Tamenay, a corruption of the name of the renowned chief here introduced. ❋ Unknown (1826)
* The Americans sometimes called their tutelar saint ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
* The Chinese believe there are a kind of tutelar spirits, or good Genii: in the cities there are temples to them, in which the Mandarines offer sacrifice: as also to the spirits of the rivers, mountains, four parts of the world, &c.P. Semedo's hist. part. ❋ Unknown (1761)
Mrs. Witherington was, in conferring her maternal bounty, naturally led to employ the agency of Hartley, the companion of her son, and to whom, since the recovery of her younger children, she almost looked up as to a tutelar deity. ❋ Unknown (2008)
We use the word “genius” indifferently in speaking of the tutelar demon of a town of antiquity, or an artist, or a musician. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Sua cuique civitati (Laeli) religio sit, nostra nobis, Tully thought fit every city should be free in this behalf, adore their own Custodes et Topicos Deos, tutelar and local gods, as Symmachus calls them. ❋ Unknown (2007)
What, Lamprias, will you permit our tutelar god, called Evius, the inciter of women, famous for the honors he has conferred upon him by madmen, to be inscribed and enrolled in the mysteries of the ❋ Unknown (2004)
Was Alice his unknown warden, and was this maiden of the cavern the tutelar genius that watched his bed during his sickness? ❋ Unknown (2004)
Afterwards, the relatives retire, and the corpse is carried to the burning-ground by men who have the same tutelar deity as the deceased. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
He is their tutelar god, to him they offer all their first-fruits, and in his honor stamp their money with a trident. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
Arab tribe chose its own god or tutelar divinity; and that, considering the Kaaba as a Pantheon common to them all, they frequented it in pilgrimage. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Tunis to Malta, put back by stress of weather, two sheep were sacrificed to some tutelar saints, and two guns were fired in their honour. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It represents in the highest signification the Columbian Manitou, and thus men talk of the Mbwiri of a tree or a river; as will presently be seen, it is also applied to a tutelar god; and I have shown how it means a ghost. ❋ Unknown (2003)
All at Rome was in great disorder; they were utterly averse from fighting, and spent their whole time in cabals and disputes and reproaches against each other; until news was brought that the enemy had laid close siege to Lavinium, where were the images and sacred things of their tutelar gods, and from whence they derived the origin of their nation, that being the first city which Aeneas built in Italy. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
With a view to this they did well, again, to make Harmony, the daughter of Mars and Venus, their tutelar deity; since, where force and courage is joined with gracefulness and winning behavior a harmony ensues that combines all the elements of society in perfect consonance and order. — ❋ Plutarch (2003)
I will not here dispute whether Achor, the Cyrenians 'tutelar god against flies, hath any relation or affinity with the name of ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)
This was, say some, [22] an angel; -- the tutelar angel of the place, say the popish expositors, [23] or the genius of the place, according to the phrase of the heathens, of whom they learned their demonology; -- perhaps him, or his antagonist, that not long before appeared to Brutus ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
It was a species of brief elegy to the memory of Turenne, whom the French soldier still regarded as his tutelar genius. ❋ Various (N/A)
