omnific om-NIF-ik, adjective:
Creating all things; having unlimited powers of creation.
Said then th’ omnific Word, your discord end:/Nor stay’d, but on the wings of Cherubim/Uplifted, in paternal glory rode/Far into Chaos, and the world unborn/For Chaos heard his voice: him all his train/ Follow’d in bright procession to behold/Creation and the wonders of his might.
-- Milton, Book VII, Paradise Lost
Then was issued that omnific mandate which Longinus and others have so much admired for its sublimity, grandeur, and brevity.
-- George Brewster, A New Philosophy of Matter: Showing the Identity of the Imponderables, and the Influence Which These Agents Exert Over Matter in Producing All Che
Omnific also occurs as omnificent and ominificence, a noun.
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