Meanings of tutelary god in English

He has since been worshipped as the tutelary god of the Chinese tea merchants.

The lyre was the peculiar instrument of Apollo, the tutelary god of music and poetry.

Hence to every state its tutelary god-thefounder of its greatness, the guardian of its renown.

People living within those districts are called ujiko, and the temple the ujigami, or dwelling-place of the tutelary god.

You may also amuse yourself with numberless inscriptions on the pillars and walls, celebrating the praises of the stream and of its tutelary god.

In The Informers, he is undoubtedly an influence, a sort of tutelary god always looking over my shoulder (and I resent him for it).

The desert was even then hostile to the tutelary gods of Egypt, and offered an almost inviolable asylum to their enemies.

All of the desert tribes had such tutelary gods; and all of these gods were once men of power who lived on earth.

For Acmon was the Cyclopian Deity; and is represented by Callimachus as the tutelary God of the place, though the passage has been otherwise interpreted.