(UNDER-1 6 a. Cf. Du. ondergod, G. untergott, Sw. undergud.)
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. xlv. 270. As soon as we fall to bringing in of vndergoddes we forsake the liuing God.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T., 20. The High-priest (the vnder-god of your Cittie).
1605. A. Wotton, Answ. Popish Pamph., 47. You Papists … make our Sauiour, as it were an vnder God.
1712. Blackmore, Creation, V. 235. Of his own Substance does he Parts convey, Whose Motive Force the Under-Gods obey.
1891. F. W. Newman, Early Hist. Cdl. Newman, 20. This Power is an under-god…. If we have no awe for this under-god, why [etc.].
