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idolize, v.|ˈaɪdəlaɪz|
[f. idol n. + -ize.]
1. a. trans. To make an idol of, to render to (a person or thing) such adoration or worship as is commonly given to an idol; hence, to venerate, adore, or love to excess. (Cf. idolatrize v. 2.) Also absol.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. iv. Columnes 763 Whose soule, seduced by his erring eyes, Doth some proud Dame devoutly Idolize. 1644Cromwell Sp. 9 Dec. in Carlyle, They [my soldiers] do not idolise me, but look upon the Cause they fight for. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 249 The affectation, which..has prevailed in Paris..for idolizing the memory of your Henry the Fourth. 1834Lytton Pompeii iii. iii, From my childhood upward I have idolised the dreams of Virtue. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. iii. 97 He idolizes you, and he lets all the world see it. 1919M. K. Bradby Psycho-Anal. 65 For instance, one person may be prone to jealousy, another to idolise.
b. In literal sense: To make into an idol, to worship as an idol or idolatrously. ? Obs.
1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. ii. ii. 15 The Moon is the same..with Diana, which the Gauls greatly idolized. 1722J. Covel Acc. Grk. Ch. 354 The Brasen Serpent..when it was abused and Idolized. 1824T. Fenby Paraphr. Isa. ix. 7 He..Carveth a log of soundest wood To idolize.
2. intr. To practise idolatry (cf. idolatrize v. 1).
1631H. Shirley Mart. Souldier ii. iii. in Bullen O. Pl. I. 200 Twas I that taught thee first to Idolize. 1652Gaule Magastrom. Ep. Ded. A ij b, Then the Jewish Apostates Idolized with it and by it. a1864Fairbairn in Webster, To idolize after the manner of Egypt.
Hence ˈidolizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. iii. iv. 50 The Idolizing of the Ceremonies. 1677Gilpin Demonol. (1867) 365 A sinful idolizing of the creature. 1870Ruskin Aratra Pent. ii. §33 The second great condition for the advance of the art of sculpture is that the race should possess, in addition to the mimetic instinct, the realistic or idolizing instinct. |