a. [ad. Gr. θεόπνευστος, f. θεό-ς God + -πνευστος inspired, f. stem πνευ- of πνεῖν to breathe, blow.] Divinely inspired.
1647. Hammond, Power of Keys, iii. 30. Which delivers down all the books which make up our Canon of Scripture, for Canonicall, and Theopneust.
1806. G. S. Faber, Diss. Prophecies (1814), II. 314. The promotion of image-worship, the purpose for which this misnamed theopneust assembly met together.
1885. trans. Wellhausen’s Hist. Israel, I. iii. 48. Their polemic is a purely prophetic one, i.e. individual, theopneust,… independent of all traditional … opinions.
So Theopneustic a. in same sense; Theopneusty [Ger. theopneustie (Heyse, 1837), F. théopneustie (Littré)], ǁ Theopneustia (Gr. θεοπνευστία), divine inspiration; also Theopneustian.
1660. S. Fisher, Rusticks Alarm, IV. i. Wks. (1679), 592. Denying any such *Theopneustian [sic], Divine Inspiration, Revelation, Motion, immediate Mission.
1894. Thinker, VI. 67. According to this theory, the writers of the books of Kings and Chronicles needed and received less of *theopneustia than the prophet Isaiah or the Evangelist John.
1827. Hare, Guesses, Ser. I. (1873), 209. Its [Christianity’s] anthropomorphism is *theopneustic.
1847. J. W. Donaldson, Vind. Protest. Princ., 50. If man is, in his higher nature, a theopneustic being.
1847. Webster, *Theopneusty, divine inspiration.
