DEIFY

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Cæsar was deified.

2.
v.

To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money. He did again to extol and deify the pope. Bacon.

3.
v.

To render godlike. By our own spirits are we deified. Wordsworth.


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