What is "glorify"

Usage examples of "glorify".

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.

At the outset, old Margaillan, glorifying in his bemedalled son-in-law, had trotted him about and introduced him everywhere as his partner and successor.

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.

Life-size statues of all the Sun Kings, from Bahlam the first down through Gordon, were set in niches along the corridor, flanked by intricately ornamented obelisks glorifying their reigns.

He was, for one thing, a fiery Shintoist and Japanophile, who reviled alien teachings and foreign countries in order to glorify the superiority of Japan and its native learning.

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.

Pogrebin believes males have sold the boring, menial job of childrearing to women by glorifying motherhood.

Renaissance architects lived for only two reasons-to glorify God with big churches, and to glorify dignitaries with lavish tombs.