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apotheosize

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  1. deify or glorify

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  • After eight years of a presidency that valued cronyism over brains (or even competence) and embraced an anti-intellectualism apotheosized by Sarah Palin, it's a godsend to have a president who puts a premium on merit. Steven G. Brant: Progressives Deserve to Be Worried About the Obama Administration
  • Though V.F. elevated all of its elect to the same celestial plane, once apotheosized, nobody was sacred. Vanity Fair: The Early Years, 1914-1936
  • On the one hand, the dead men are apotheosized and made into martyrs for a great cause, as part of an ongoing effort to whip up enthusiasm for the war within the public.
  • The ancient Greeks, Chinese, Hindus and many other cultures and civilizations all had their initiates who were highly developed mentally, morally, and spiritually – these men and women were well beyond their time and the lay people viewed them as demi-gods and apotheosized them. Hand Signed | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • But his ingenuous one-world sentiments are apotheosized into truth by the strength of his melodic gifts (which haven't failed him yet) and a voice that's still sweet and grainy when it needs to be.
  • It is really a sort of sublimated and apotheosized "argot," an "argot" of a kind of platonic archetypal drawing-room; such a drawing-room as has never existed perhaps, but to which all drawing-rooms or salons, if you will, of elegant conversation, perpetually approximate. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
  • The completion of these labors guaranteed his immortality; he was apotheosized at the time of his death and is the only mortal to be honored in this fashion.
  • This was rather a rash venture in prognostication, for it may be easy enough to "apotheosize" the horse, but to what idyllic heights the automobile is destined to ultimately reach no one really knows. The Automobilist Abroad
  • But given that most Roman emperors expected to be apotheosized after death, at least his choice of signature had some logic behind it. Please remain seated - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca
  • This florid and fulsome eulogy was written by that singular being who could thus flatter, and almost apotheosize, the inventor in public, while in secret he was doing everything to thwart him, and who never, as long as he lived, ceased to antagonize him, and later accused him of having claimed the credit of an invention all the essentials of which were invented by others. Letters and Journals 02]
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