The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apotheosize \Ap`o*the"o*size\, v. t. To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1760; see apotheosis + -ize. Related: Apotheosized; apotheosizing. Earlier in same sense was apotheose (1670s).
Wiktionary
alt. 1 deify, to convert into a god. 2 exalt, glorify vb. 1 deify, to convert into a god. 2 exalt, glorify
WordNet
v. deify or glorify [syn: apotheosise, apotheose]
Usage examples of "apotheosize".
Two or three girls, clad in apotheosized organdie, and close hats, were already on top of the coach.
Yoshida was apotheosized soon afterward as one of the heroes of modern Japan, a perfect symbol of purity of purpose and tragic sacrifice.
There, in the eyes of his former compadres, he was apotheosized from a rural campesino into a nuevo rico who claimed he could buy the entire landscape of his birth, its petty aristocrats, snobs and bigwigs thrown in for good measure.
Lucy habitually sacrifices her financial affairs to her amatory ones, a tendency apotheosized and, ironically, terminated by the handsome, insolvent Adorno.
Or maybe about the fact that for most Westerners this name apotheosizes a standard of feminine beauty having nothing to do with my lady's primeval negritude.
Where once Huns and Reds were demonized, human qualities would be apotheosized.
So etherealized by spirit as he was, and so apotheosized by worshipping admirers, did his footsteps, in the procession, really tread upon the dust of earth?
She apotheosized 'that place' in a dismissive tone but then he'd been forewarned of her attitude so he 'looked' deeply and 'saw' the area and the cradles available to visitors.