household god

noun

a god presiding over and protecting the home, especially in the religion of ancient Rome.

First recorded in 1605–15

Indeed, he was greeted by his constituents as something of a household god.

A small kind, called Deo Korah, is hung up as a household god and worshipped.

How could she leave that household god which stood day and night by her bedside, the cradle that had rocked her children?

When made the cakes are offered to the Kul Deo or household god.

A widow is not permitted to worship the household god or the ancestors of the family.

In another place Vave was the name of a household god, and incarnate in the eel.

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