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Ahura Mazda |
in Zoroastrianism, the supreme deity and creator of the world; Ormazd. |
Allah |
the name of the supreme deity in the Muslim religion. |
atman |
(cap.) the universal soul from which all individual souls derive and to which, as the supreme goal of existence, they return. [1/2 definitions] |
beatitude |
absolute or supreme happiness or blessedness. [1/2 definitions] |
bliss |
extreme or supreme happiness. [1/2 definitions] |
Brahma |
according to Hinduism, the impersonal, supreme, and eternal essence of the universe, from which all life originates. [1/2 definitions] |
chief justice |
(cap.) the presiding judge of the United States Supreme Court. [1/2 definitions] |
dictator |
a ruler who has supreme and total authority, esp. one who has seized power or who uses it harshly or selfishly. [1/3 definitions] |
emperor |
the supreme male ruler of an empire. |
empire |
a single political unit, with one supreme ruler, composed of an aggregate of nations or peoples. [1/4 definitions] |
empress |
the supreme female ruler of an empire. [1/2 definitions] |
fear |
profound awe or reverence, esp. toward a supreme power or being. [1/8 definitions] |
Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu |
an American of Japanese descent who, during World War II, was one of only a few Japanese-Americans to openly defy the relocation orders of the U.S. Government. Korematsu was arrested and sent to an internment center in 1942, and his challenge to the constitutionality of forced relocation was ruled against by the Supreme Court in 1944 in Korematsu v. United States (b.1919--d.2005). |
god |
(capitalized) the supreme being that is worshipped by Christians, Jews, and Muslims as the maker and ruler of the universe. [1/2 definitions] |
Gordon Hirabayashi |
an American of Japanese descent who, during World War II, was one of only a few Japanese-Americans to openly defy the relocation orders of the U.S. Government. He challenged the constitutionality of the application of curfews for minority groups, and his case eventually went to the Supreme Court, where he was unanimously ruled against in Hirabayashi v. United States in 1943 (b.1918--2012). |
Hinduism |
the main religion of India, which has many gods that are part of the same supreme being. Hinduism has a strict system of social classes and a belief that the soul can be born again after death into a different body. |
Jupiter |
in Roman mythology, the supreme god who was the weather god and protector of state and law; Jove; Zeus. [1/2 definitions] |
Minoru Yasui |
an American of Japanese descent who, during World War II, was one of few Japanese-Americans to openly violate curfew restrictions and defy the relocation orders of the U.S. Government. He challenged the constitutionality of the application of curfews to people based on their ethnicity, and his case eventually went to the Supreme Court, where he was unanimously ruled against in Yasui v. United States in 1943, in a companion case to Hirabayashi v. United States (b.1915--d.1986). |
monotheism |
the belief that there is only one supreme being. |
Odin |
in Scandinavian mythology, the supreme god, and the god of war, death, wisdom, and poetry. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
an influential U.S. Supreme Court justice (1902-1932), known for exercising judicial restraint and cited frequently for the opinion he wrote for Schenck v. United States, in which he argued that freedom of speech could be limited only in cases when particular acts of expression presented a "clear and present danger" to the country or its people (b.1841--d.1935). |
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