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glorified, ppl. a.|ˈglɔərɪfaɪd|
[f. glorify v. + -ed1.]
1. In senses of the vb.: Invested with glory, rendered glorious; beautified; † refined.
a1340Hampole Psalter cxlvi. 3 When we ryse glorifyde in body and saule. a1500Wycket (1828) p. viii, Whether make they the gloryfyed bodye ether make they agayne the spirituall bodye. 1608W. Sclater Malachy (1650) 196 It repugnes the nature of a glorified body. 1655Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 7 He drew out the Copy of so glorified an Original. 1657G. Starkey Helmont's Vind. Ep. to Rdr., Thus also may be made.. the glorified Sulphur of Antimony. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 510 Other unknown Purposes peculiar to his glorified State. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 172 The..Soul..will resume its Body again in a glorify'd Manner. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. II. 345 Angels and glorified saints adore the Mother and her Son. 1862Tyndall Mountaineer. vi. 47 Long stretches of crimson light drawn over the higher snow-fields linked the glorified summits together. 1878Browning Poets Croisic li, Who may be this glorified Mortal unheard-of hitherto?
absol.1871B. Taylor Faust I. xx. 214 They turn their faces, The glorified, from thee.
2. colloq. That has undergone transformation into something glorious. (Often used sarcastically, e.g. to imply that a person of distinguished position has essentially the ideas or type of mind characteristic of some inferior rank or class.) Also, gorgeously attired or adorned.
1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. My first Play, I judged it to be sugar-candy—yet to my raised imagination..it appeared..a glorified candy! 1846Thackeray Snob Papers Wks. (1886) XXIV. 318 A glorified flunkey, in lace, plush, and aiguillettes. 1887Mahaffy Greek Life & Thought x. 201 We feel ourselves in a sort of glorified Holborn Restaurant, where the resources of art are lavished on the walls of an eating-room. 1894Sala Lond. up to Date ii. 21 A glorified..gentleman..takes from you your second card. 1896Daily News 1 Oct. 4/6 There was a great deal of what has been called a glorified school-boy about Lord Randolph. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 163 It is a real island of a rocky nature, and not a glorified sandbank that has [etc.]. Mod. He sneered at the head of his college as ‘a sort of glorified board-schoolmaster’. |