It is noteworthy that Socrates ( Plato, Phaedo, 98 B ) accuses Anaxagoras of failing to differentiate between nous and psyche, while Aristotle ( Metaphysics, Book I ) objects that his nous is merely a deus ex machina to which he refuses to attribute design and knowledge.

The language was spoken and sung verse, the performance area included a circular floor or orchestra where the chorus could dance, a space for actors ( three speaking actors in Euripides's time ), a backdrop or skene and some special effects: an ekkyklema ( used to bring the skene's ' indoors ' outdoors ) and a mechane ( used to lift actors in the air, as in deus ex machina ).

And yet when the gods appear deus ex machina, as they do in eight of the extant plays, they appear " lifeless and mechanical ".

Based on the concept of nanotechnology, their comical deus ex machina activities included such diverse tasks as instant repair and construction, hairstyling, performing a Nanite variation of a flea circus, conducting a microscopic war, and even destroying the Observers ' planet after a dangerously vague request from Mike to " take care of little problem ".

The goddess Athena intervenes and persuades both sides to give up the vendetta, a deus ex machina.

" The spelling discrepancy of the added ' y ' was later explained as a deus ex machina on the part of " The White " ( a force of good throughout King's Tower series ) to bring the total number of letters in her name to nineteen, a number prominent in King's series.

Joshi argues that King's best-known works ( his supernatural novels ), are his worst, describing them as mostly bloated, illogical, maudlin and prone to deus ex machina endings.

" Soap narratives, like those of film melodramas, are marked by what Steve Neale has described as ' chance meetings, coincidences, missed meetings, sudden conversions, last-minute rescues and revelations, deus ex machina endings.

In contrast with Nathan-Turner's attitude that the sonic screwdriver should not be used as a cure-all, the new production team gave it even more functionality than previous versions which has given the series some criticism as it seems to be a deus ex machina, a literary device that is generally avoided.

Macheath escapes this fate via a deus ex machina moments before the execution when, in an unrestrained parody of a happy ending, a messenger from the Queen arrives to pardon Macheath and grant him the title of Baron.

The NTIs ' knowledge of neuroanatomy and nanoscale manipulation of biochemistry was responsible for many of the deus ex machina aspects of the film.

Newsweek magazine's David Ansen, summarizing the theatrical release, wrote, " The payoff to The Abyss is pretty damn silly — a portentous deus ex machina that leaves too many questions unanswered and evokes too many other films.

This is more often than not a daunting task, and such explanations often have the flavor of ad hoc contrivances or deus ex machina.

This device gave origin to the phrase " deus ex machina " (" god out of a machine "), that is, the surprise intervention of an unforeseen external factor that changes the outcome of an event.

Huey, Dewey, and Louie frequently consult a volume of the set to get themselves and their uncles Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck out of dangerous situations ( see deus ex machina ).

The deus ex machina salvation in some versions of Iphigeneia ( who was about to be sacrificed by her father Agamemnon ) and her replacement with a deer by the goddess Artemis, may be a vestigial memory of the abandonment and discrediting of the practice of human sacrifice among the Greeks in favour of animal sacrifice.

Many of his " rules " are often associated with " Aristotelian drama ", wherein deus ex machina is a weakness the action is structured economically.

The term deus ex machina is used to refer to a narrative ending in which an improbable event is used to resolve all problematic situations and bring the story to a ( generally happy ) conclusion.

The Latin phrase " deus ex machina " has its origins in the conventions of Greek tragedy, and refers to situations in which a mechane ( crane ) was used to lower actors playing a god or gods onto the stage at the end of a play.

The character in this way also functions as a deus ex machina.

John eventually saves himself, through a literal deus ex machina, in a campfire conversation with God.

In this series, Dorothy remains inexperienced and unfamiliar with the shoes ' magic, and as such, calls upon their power only as a last resort ; often resulting in a deus ex machina scenario.

In such scenarios, the author often uses deus ex machina to allow the invasion to be repulsed.

In the end two instances of deus ex machina resolve the complicated situation.

Their role in the film was about as minimal as one would expect given this, except near the very end when they save Miss Piggy's life in a comic deus ex machina ( she falls off a cliff, and they just happen to be underneath her ).

In Latin he becomes " deus pater " or Jupiter ; we still encounter this word in the etymologies of the words " deity " and " divine.

Later Roman historians disputed its exact location and no trace remains of the temple or altar ; the latter has been historically misidentified with the Palatine altar inscribed si deus si dea (" whether God or Goddess "), in cautious dedication to some unknown deity.

The epithets that can be identified are: Cozeuios, i. e. Conseuius the Sower, which opens the carmen and is attested as an old form of Consivius in Tertullian ; Patultius: the Opener ; Iancus or Ianeus: the Gatekeeper ; Duonus Cerus: the Good Creator ; rex king ( potissimum melios eum recum: the most powerful and best o ' em kings ); diuum patrem ( partem ): father of the gods ( or part of the gods ); diuum deus: god of the gods ; ianitos: the Janitor, Gatekeeper.

Following Aristotle, Renaissance critics continued to view the deus ex machina as an inept plot device, although it continued to be employed by Renaissance dramatists ; Shakespeare used the device in As You Like It, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Cymbeline and The Winter's Tale.

The term for " a god " was * deiwos, reflected in Hittite, sius ; Latin, deus, Sanskrit deva ; Avestan, daeva ( later, Persian, divs ); Welsh duw ; Irish dia, Lithuanian, Dievas ; Latvian, Dievs.

The legal fiction of the early Empire ( in which the emperor was but the first among equals ) was disposed of ; the emperors, beginning with Aurelian, openly styled themselves as dominus et deus, lord and god, titles appropriate for a slave towards his master.

# Missa Incessament ( 5vv ), also known as Missa Sic deus & Non salvatur rex, La Rue's longest mass cycle ;

The deity for whom it was celebrated is unknown ; if a ritual for grove-clearing recorded by Cato pertains to this festival, the invocation was deliberately anonymous ( Si deus, si dea ).

Dantur pueri nobilium, quorum primum venerabilis Rigensis episcopus cum gaudio et devotione magna catechizatum sacro baptismatis fonte rigavit ; alii presbyteri alios rigaverunt, qui et in urbem cum gaudio ducuntur, ut Christum predicent, ut Tharaphitam, qui deus fuit Osilianorum, eiciant, qui per medium castrum fontem consecrantes et dolium replentes primo seniores et meliores cathechizatos, deinde viros alios et mulieres baptizant et pueros.

However, K-C doesn't fall in line until Vicki and Jackson announce, publicly, that there is no more deus ex machina ; " The machina broke down ," Vicki says, " and the dea is dead.

: La déesse des tétons, dea Rumilia ; la déesse de l ’ action du mariage, dea Pertunda ; le dieu de la chaise percée, deus Stercutius ; le dieu Pet, deus Crepitus, ne sont pas assurément bien vénérables.

The root of the word " divine " is literally " godlike " ( from the Latin deus, cf.

It is rooted in Indoeuropean * d ( e ) y ( e ) w, meaning bright sky or daylight, from which also derived the name of Vedic god Dyaus and the Latin deus, ( god ) and dies ( day, daylight ).

Deism is derived from deus, the Latin word for god.

The words deism and theism are both derived from words for god: the former from Latin deus, the latter from its Greek cognate theós ( θεός ).

It is disputed whether the famous slogan " God wills it " or " It is the will of God " ( deus vult in Latin, Dieu le veut in French ) in fact was established as a rallying cry during the council.

The word " deity " derives from the Latin " dea ", (" goddess "), and " deus ", (" god "), and other Indo-European roots such as from the Sanskrit " deva ", (" god "), " devi ", (" goddess "), " divya ", (" transcendental ", " spiritual ").

The basic sense of the term is goddess, the feminine of the Latin word divus ( Italian divo ), someone deified after death, or Latin deus, a god.

The Latin phrase deus ex machina comes to English usage from Horace's Ars Poetica, where he instructs poets that they must never resort to a god from the machine to solve their plots.

In Indo-European languages, such as Phrygian, the-zios element in his name derives from dyeus, the common precursor of Latin deus (' god ') and Greek Zeus.

* Di, an irregular Latin masculine plural of deus (" god ", " diety ")

This stage machine was particularly used to bring gods onto the stage from above, hence the Latin term deus ex machina (" god out of the machine ").

The word is a blend of the Greek Megas, meaning " Great ", and the Latin deus, meaning " god ".

Also deriving from PIE * deiwos, and thus cognates of deva, are Lithuanian Dievas ( Latvian Dievs, Prussian Deiwas ), Germanic Tiwaz ( seen in English " Tuesday ") and the related Old Norse Tivar ( gods ), and Latin deus " god " and divus " divine ", from which the English words " divine ", " deity ", French " dieu ", Portuguese " deus ", Spanish " dios " and Italian " dio ", also " Zeys / Ζεύς "-" Dias / Δίας ", the Greek father of the gods, are derived.

* Pandeism – from the Greek παν ( pan ) meaning " all " and Latin deus meaning " god "; the non-hybrid word is pantheism

* Polydeism – from the Greek πολύς ( polys ) meaning " many " and the Latin deus meaning " god "; compare with the non-hybrid word polytheism

Polydeism ( from Greek πολύς ( ' poly ' ), meaning ' many ', and Latin deus meaning God ) is a polytheistic form of Deism encompassing the belief that the universe was the collective creation of multiple Gods, each of whom created a piece of the universe and then ceased to interact with the universe.

Many of the central religious terms in Vedic Sanskrit have cognates in the religious vocabulary of other Indo-European languages ( deva: Latin deus ; hotar: Germanic god ; asura: Germanic ansuz ; yajna: Greek hagios ; brahman: Norse Bragi or perhaps Latin flamen etc .).