"one who holds to some general doctrines of Christian religion and believes in the existence of a personal God but denies revelation and dogma and church authority," 1620s, from French déiste (1560s), from Latin deus (see Zeus). Related: Deistic (1795); deistically. Also see deism.
*deik-
Deimos
deinstitutionalization
deipnosophist
deism
deist
deity
deixis
deja vu
deject
dejected