Meaning of dii ex machinis | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“[…] hence, the gods in the Iliad are never “ Dii ex machinis,” they are providential and governing, they prepare the conflict, mature the crisis, […]”

“[…] assume nervous influences of which the student has no knowledge, and which he must provisionally regard as dii ex machinis, to be looked-up afterwards.”

“In John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728), the ludicrously contrived last-minute rescue of Maceath works as a deliberate deflation of opera’s various dii ex machinis.”

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