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divinize, v.|ˈdɪvɪnaɪz|
[ad. F. diviniser (16th–17th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) to render divine, deify, f. divin divine: see -ize.]
1. trans. To make or render divine; to deify.
1656Blount Glossogr., Divinize, to make divine or heavenly. a1743A. M. Ramsay Nat. & Rev. Relig. ii. 401 (R.) The predestinarian doctors have divinized cruelty, wrath, fury, vengeance, and all the blackest vices. 1890Newell St. Patrick 70 He divinised the powers of nature because he feared them.
†2. intr. To become divine; to act as a divine being. Obs. rare.
1685Gracian's Courtiers Orac. 163 By Divinizing, one gets Respect, by Humanizing, Contempt.
Hence ˈdivinized ppl. a.; ˈdivinizing vbl. n.
1837Tait's Mag. IV. 459 This divinizing of ‘myself’—this deification of the individual man. 1839Bailey Festus (1854) 164 The form Of Divinized humanity. |