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heroize, v.|ˈhɪərəʊaɪz|
[f. hero + -ize.]
1. trans. To make a hero of; to treat or represent as a hero.
1738Weddell Voy. up Thames 52 He was glad to escape the Trouble of heroizing them. 1883‘H. A. Page’ Vers de Societé 132 Did Mr. Elliott bear in mind how he was heroised in Edinburgh?
b. spec. To exalt into a mythological hero.
1891W. M. Ramsay in Athenæum 15 Aug. 233/2 A heroized representation of the chief who was buried beneath the tumulus. 1894Q. Rev. July 138 The deceased seated on thrones as heroised ancestors in Hades. 1897Edin. Rev. Apr. 450 Ancestor worship..regards the dead man as heroised or even deified.
2. To make or render heroic.
1886West. Daily Press 15 Dec. 3 The Laureate should heroise the nation which he represents, and inspire it with noble and radiant thoughts.
3. intr. To play the hero.
1875Browning Aristoph. Apol. 2369 Heroize And speechify and sing-song.
Hence ˈheroized ppl. a.; ˈheroizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; heroiˈzation, exaltation to the position of a hero.
1840Tait's Mag. VII. 521 No..heroization of a probably crazy or worthless individual. 1860A. L. Windsor Ethica ii. 105 Heroizing is the radical vice of the day. 1891–7[see heroize v. 1 b]. |