Crossword clues for deify
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deify \De"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deified; p. pr. & vb. n. Deifying.] [F. d['e]ifier, LL. deificare, fr. L. deificus. See Deific, Deity, -fy.]
To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius C[ae]sar was deified.
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To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money.
He did again so extol and deify the pope.
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To render godlike.
By our own spirits are we deified.
--Wordsworth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old French deifier (13c.), from Late Latin deificare, from deificus "making godlike," from Latin deus "god" (see Zeus) + -ficare, from facere "to make, do" (see factitious). Related: Deified; deifying.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make a god of (something or someone). 2 (context transitive English) To treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity.
WordNet
v. consider as a god or god-like; "These young men deify financial success"
exalt to the position of a God; "the people deified their King"
[also: deified]
Usage examples of "deify".
In them a religious and realistic idea takes the place of the moralism of the Apologists, namely, the deifying of the human race through the incarnation of the Son of God.
The Deified had come down from their screens and donned hologramatic guises.
WarAvocat and Deified, krekelen and witnesses, all were part of a dramatization for slower biological minds.
The system would have responded to Ronygos directly, but the Deified liked to nag the living for having introduced unbreakable routines that prevented them from issuing edicts and making decisions without the consent of the living.
But dealing with the Deified did not bother them, and the Deified were nothing but electronic spooks.
The Deified were at their meddlesome worst, carping and second-guessing.
The Deified Makarska Vis lingered for a moment, glaring at him with a displeasure almost too intense for an electronic entity.
Starbase, Turtle feared, was a prison where they would serve life sentences for having offended the Deified Makarska Vis.
It was certain he would be reelected Dictat if he stood, and almost as certain that the Deified Makarska Vis would bow before a motion of censure from the Deified.
Dictat was the Deified Aleas Notable, a little known former WarAvocat taking office for the first time.
Starbase, the Deified Makarska Vis put three guests of mine off the Guardship.
There has been a catastrophic polarization among the Deified during your absence.
Twenty hours after his arrival, WarAvocat consulted his Deified about the advisability of withdrawal.
She argued, but did not carp or collude or try to rally the opinions of others, as the Deified had become accustomed to do since Makarska Vis introduced the spirit of divisiveness.
Within an hour there was a new OpsAvocat, and a dozen Deified had gone to the electronic equivalent of purgatory.