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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Deified \De"i*fied\, adjective Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme regard; godlike.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Deify \De"i*fy\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Deified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Deifying}.] [F. d['e]ifier, LL. deificare, fr. L. deificus. See {Deific}, {Deity}, {-fy}.]
1. To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius C[ae]sar was deified.
2. To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money.
He did again so extol and deify the pope. --Bacon.
3. To render godlike.
By our own spirits are we deified. --Wordsworth.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
deified See {deify}
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
deify
verb
1: consider as a god or god-like; "These young men deify financial success"
2: exalt to the position of a God; "the people deified their King" [also: {deified}]
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