Act of God
31act of God — Meaning An act which are outside human control. Origin Originated in legal or insurance circles to denote acts which aren t the responsibility of any individual and therefore uninsurable. ref: Brewer s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 15th edition …
32act of God — an instance of uncontrollable natural forces in operation. → act …
33act of God — Date: 1783 an extraordinary interruption by a natural cause (as a flood or earthquake) of the usual course of events that experience, prescience, or care cannot reasonably foresee or prevent …
34act of God — Law. a direct, sudden, and irresistible action of natural forces such as could not reasonably have been foreseen or prevented, as a flood, hurricane, earthquake, or other natural catastrophe. [1855 60] * * * …
35act of God — noun an unforeseen occurrence beyond ones control, such as a natural disaster Syn: force majeure …
36act of God — Synonyms and related words: certainty, fate, fatefulness, force majeure, indefeasibility, ineluctability, inescapableness, inevasibleness, inevitability, inevitable accident, inevitableness, inexorability, inflexibility, irrevocability, necessity …
37act of God — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. natural disaster, unforeseen event, accident, freak accident …
38act of God — noun a direct, sudden, and irresistible action of natural forces, such as could not humanly have been foreseen or prevented, for example, tornado, tidal wave, flood, and earth movements …
39God — (g[o^]d), n. [AS. god; akin to OS. & D. god, OHG. got, G. gott, Icel. gu[eth], go[eth], Sw. & Dan. gud, Goth. gup, prob. orig. a p. p. from a root appearing in Skr. h[=u], p. p. h[=u]ta, to call upon, invoke, implore. [root]30. Cf. {Goodbye},… …
40God's acre — God God (g[o^]d), n. [AS. god; akin to OS. & D. god, OHG. got, G. gott, Icel. gu[eth], go[eth], Sw. & Dan. gud, Goth. gup, prob. orig. a p. p. from a root appearing in Skr. h[=u], p. p. h[=u]ta, to call upon, invoke, implore. [root]30. Cf.… …
