[f. as prec.: see -IST.] a. ‘One who believes God’s self-subsistence.’ Bailey, 1731. b. One who makes himself his own god; a deifier of himself.
1855. Kingsley, in Alt. Locke (1881), Pref. Mem. 62. To mistake more and more the voice of that very flesh of his … for the Voice of God, and to become without knowing it an autotheist.
1866. Ld. Strangford, Selection (1869), II. 299. The Eastern and the Western autotheist alike give full play to their fancy.
