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Definition of Apotheosize
1. Verb. Deify or glorify.
Generic synonyms: Deify
Derivative terms: Apotheosis, Apotheosis
Definition of Apotheosize
1. v. t. To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify.
Definition of Apotheosize
1. Verb. deify, to convert into a god. ¹
2. Verb. exalt, glorify ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apotheosize
1. [v -SIZED, -SIZING, -SIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apotheosize
Literary usage of Apotheosize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Rome and the Roman People: From Its Origin to the Establishment by Victor Duruy (1885)
"We also apotheosize, but without having faith in what we do ; for us it is a question
... Varro considered it suitable thnt cities should apotheosize their ..."
2. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1860)
"Let it be that Dionysus himself was only the apotheosis of victorious humanity.
In strict logic this is more than probable. Yet why apotheosize conquerors ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1892)
"It is not aa attempt to construct a political history, with Lincoln often in the
background, nor is it an effort to apotheosize the American who stands ..."
4. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1900)
"... those things which come first to mind, when we speak of the studies of the
school. There has been a tendency to apotheosize certain things,—arithmetic ..."
5. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1903)
"While we see no evidence of undue effort to apotheosize Mr. Fish, yet the result
is undoubtedly, so far as this paper goes, ..."
6. The Contemporary Review (1871)
"Indeed, it may be doubted if the Church in its worst days ever exhibited so
extraordinary a tendency to proselytize the living and apotheosize the dead as ..."
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