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deify, v.|ˈdiːɪfaɪ|
[a. F. déifier (13th c. in Hatzf.), ad. L. deificāre (Augustine and Cassiodorus), f. de-us god + -ficāre: see -fy.]
trans. To make a god of; to exalt to the position of a deity; to enroll among the gods of the nation or tribe.
1393Gower Conf. II. 165 Juno, Neptunus, Pluto, The which of nice fantasy The people wolde deify. 1430Lydg. Chron. Troy i. iii, [They] were both ystellyfyed In the heauen and there defyed. 1530Palsgr. 510/1, I deifye, I make an erthly man a God, as the gentylles dyd. 1634Habington Castara (Arb.) 123 The Superstition of those Times Which deified Kings to warrant their owne crimes. 1728Newton Chronol. Amended i. 134 The first instances that I meet with in Greece of Deifying the dead. 1868Gladstone Juv. Mundi v. (1870) 123 Leukotheè, once a mortal, now deified in the Sea-region.
b. To render godlike or divine in nature, character, or spirit.
a1340Hampole Psalter lxxxi. 1 Þe gaderynge of halymen deifide thorgh grace. 1613R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Deifie, make like God. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 77 No vertue more deified a Prince then Clemencie. 1838[see deifying]. 1874[see deifier].
c. To treat as a god, in word or action; to regard or adore as a deity.
1590Spenser Teares of Muses 368 Now change the tenor of your joyous layes, With which ye use your loves to deifie. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. ii. 381 Oades..and Elegies..all (forsooth) deifying the name of Rosalinde. 1622Bacon Hen. VII 38 He did againe so extoll and deifie the Pope. 1649Bp. Raynolds Hosea iv. 49 Men of power are apt to deifie their own strength..men of wisdome, to deifie their owne reason. 1759Johnson Rasselas xxvi, The old man deifies prudence. 1859Smiles Self-Help iii. (1860) 46 It is possible to over-estimate success to the extent of almost deifying it.
Hence ˈdeifying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1553Brende Q. Curtius 223 (R.) The deifying of Hercules. 1637Nabbes Hanniball & Sc. H ij (R.), A man that..merited A deifying by your gratitude. 1649Milton Eikon. 12 Bequeath'd among his deifying friends that stood about him. 1701Collier M. Aurel. Life 21 The Deifying of his Father. 1838Emerson Addr. Cambr. Mass. Wks. (Bohn) II. 192 This sentiment [religious] is divine and deifying. |