Deify

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Deify \De"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deified}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Deifying}.] [F. d['e]ifier, LL. deificare, fr. L. deificus.
     See {Deific}, {Deity}, {-fy}.]
     1. To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to
        enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius
        C[ae]sar was deified.


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     2. To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of
        supreme regard; as, to deify money.
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              He did again so extol and deify the pope. --Bacon.
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     3. To render godlike.
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              By our own spirits are we deified.    --Wordsworth.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  deify
       v 1: consider as a god or god-like; "These young men deify
            financial success"
       2: exalt to the position of a God; "the people deified their
          King"
       [also: {deified}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "deify":
     accord respect to, admire, adore, adulate, aggrandize, apotheose,
     apotheosize, appreciate, beatify, belaud, bepraise, bless, blow up,
     boast of, brag about, canonize, celebrate, crown, cry up, defer to,
     elevate, emblazon, ennoble, enshrine, entertain respect for,
     enthrone, esteem, eulogize, exalt, extol, favor, fetish, fetishize,
     flatter, glamorize, glorify, hero-worship, hold in esteem,
     hold in reverence, honor, idol, idolatrize, idolify, idolize,
     immortalize, laud, lionize, look up to, magnify, make legendary,
     make much of, overpraise, panegyrize, pay tribute, porter aux nues,
     praise, prize, puff, puff up, raise, regard, respect, revere,
     reverence, saint, salute, sanctify, set up, think highly of,
     think much of, think well of, throne, trumpet, uplift, value,
     venerate, worship