dei ex machinis

dei ex machinis

English

Noun

dei ex machinis

1. plural of deus ex machina
   • 1910?: George Robert Stow Mead, Some Mystical Adventures, page 11 (1993 republication; Kessinger Publishing; →ISBN, 9781564593597)

     Is our salvation to be dependent upon machines; are we to become dei ex machinis ?

   • 1954: Meanjin Quarterly, page 211 (University of Melbourne)

     The dei ex machinis and the bug-eyed monsters are both products of man’s imagination — extensions and projections of his own desires, fears and hopes about himself, often revealing more about the sorts of things he believes in — or unconsciously wants to believe in — than he himself recognises.

   • 2007: Susan Miller, Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric, page 90 (Southern Illinois University Press; →ISBN, 9780809327881)

     Apparitions, marvelous coincidences, and various dei ex machinis endow these true-life fictions with spiritual qualities, useful as new secular verification that God’s plan is […]