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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
glorified
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ My title is "Editorial Assistant," but I'm really just a glorified secretary.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A very early concept was that of the Akh, meaning glorified or transfigured spirit.
▪ At a deeper level, the problem is far more than a kind of glorified managerial challenge.
▪ Everything about the industry glorified waste.
▪ The main characters are all glorified psychopaths, with little to choose between hero or villain in terms of basic humanity.
▪ The meetings are not meant to serve as glorified works councils, hammering out grand agreements on petty feuds.
▪ Their bosses view them as no more than glorified typists and they are denied career opportunities.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
glorified

glorified \glorified\ adj.

  1. accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing.

    Syn: canonized.

  2. Made to appear more important or better than it actually is; as, The Chief Financial Officer was little more than a glorified accountant.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
glorified

mid-14c., "invested with glory," past participle adjective from glorify. Weakened sense of "transformed into something better" is from 1821.

Wiktionary
glorified
  1. transformed into something glorious (often used sarcastically) v

  2. (en-past of: glorify)

WordNet
glorified

See glorify

glorify
  1. v. praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking" [syn: laud, extol, exalt, proclaim]

  2. bestow glory upon; "The victory over the enemy glorified the Republic"

  3. elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration [syn: transfigure, spiritualize]

  4. cause to seem more splendid; "You are glorifying a rather mediocre building"

  5. [also: glorified]

glorified

adj. accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing [syn: canonized, canonised]

Usage examples of "glorified".

Although he was the number four Myrmidon officer on Acorus, when he studied all the reports, he felt more like a glorified lander clerk.

But, somehow, in the light of his new love for Argemone, the whole human race seemed glorified, brought nearer, endeared to him.

After all this time, people were just another tool-using animal in the ecology, like beavers or bowerbirds, still little more than glorified chimps.

This man, worthy of the primitive Church, which exists no longer except in the pictures of the sixteenth century and in the pages of Martyrology, was stamped with the die of the human greatness which most nearly approaches the divine greatness through Conviction,--that indefinable something which embellishes the commonest form, gilds with glowing tints the faces of men vowed to any worship, no matter what, and brings into the face of a woman glorified by a noble love a sort of light.

He cantered briskly along the great stretch of plain that had nothing but stunted cottonbush to play shadow to the full moon, which glorified a sky of earliest spring.

The idea that his stomach could again know peace evidently shocked and distressed him, and as they all waded together through the sand, pioneered by the glorified Batouch, Domini was obliged to yield to his emphatic despair, and to join with him in his appreciation of the perpetual indigestion which set him apart from the rest of the world like some God within a shrine.

It was more or less a glorified coffee klatch to which doughnuts were added as an enticement.

I glanced up and saw speckles of sunlight through what may have been a temporary wooden roof some thirty meters higher and realized that this tower was little more than a glorified grain silo -- a giant stone cylinder sixty meters tall.

At a height of nearly 12,000 feet I halted on a steep declivity, and below me, completely girdled by dense forests of pines, with mountains red and glorified in the sunset rising above them, was Green Lake, looking like water, but in reality a sheet of ice two feet thick.

Jupiter Prime got very upset when their glorified babysitters spilled coffee on expensive electronics.

All his life he had been led to believe that sea-commanders were no more than traders, glorified counterparts of the subtle, greedy folk who thronged the Ripar docks, Barratong, though, was none such.

And on the splendid palaces in the broad canals the watching Madonna stands glorified in exquisite sculpture and cunningest blendings of color,--ofttimes a crown of light above her, or rays of stars, symbolic, beneath her feet,--casting her benediction far out on the water, which, ever in motion, repeats it in shimmering, widening circles--all-embracing--in which the stars of heaven shine, tangled and confused with these stars of a paradise in which earth has so large a part.

Your boys can hide amid the rimrocks just fine on their glorified billy goats.

However, the self-assertion of the individual or of groups of individuals, their struggles for superiority, and the conflicts which resulted therefrom, have already been analyzed, described, and glorified from time immemorial.

Before he entered his office he had to pass a glass partitioned room which housed four typists and was given the glorified term of pool.