Verb:

देवता-सदृश पूजा करना,

deified's Usage Examples:

Euhemerus of Messenia tried of old to rationalize the Greek myths by supposing that the Olympian gods were deified men.

The old view that the Lares were the deified ancestors of the family has been rejected lately by Wissowa, who holds that the Lar was originally the protecting spirit of a man's lot of arable land, with a shrine at the compitum, i.e.

The senate also elected her chief priestess of the college founded in honour of the deified Augustus.

When Trajan was deified, he appropriately retained, alone among the emperors, a title he had won for himself in the field, that of "Parthicus."

By common consent he was deified and all those who could afford the cost obtained his statue or bust; for a long time his statues held a place among the penates of the Romans.

How far totemism, or belief in deified animal ancestors, existed in prehistoric Israel, as evidenced by the tribal names Simeon (hyena, wolf), Caleb (dog), IIamor (ass), Rahel (ewe) and Leah (wild cow), as well as by the laws respecting clean and unclean animals, is too intricate and speculative a problem to be discussed here.

Herbert Spencer) hold that most gods are deified men, and most myths historical traditions which have been grotesquely distorted.

In origin, Krishna, like Rama, was undoubtedly a deified hero of the Kshatriya caste.

A small Roman temple, dedicated to Trajan and other deified emperors, stood on the left bank, adjoining the bridge.

Subsequently, at the end of the republic, Quirinus became identified with the deified Romulus, son of Mars.

Synonyms:

apotheose, apotheosise, idealize, apotheosize, idealise,

Antonyms:

discourage,