'Deify' definitions:
Definition of 'deify'
From: WordNet
verb
Consider as a god or godlike; "These young men deify financial success"
verb
Exalt to the position of a God; "the people deified their King"
Definition of 'Deify'
From: GCIDE
- Deify \De"i*fy\, v. t. [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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money. [1913 Webster]
- He did again so extol and deify the pope. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To render godlike. [1913 Webster]
- By our own spirits are we deified. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'deify'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accord respect to,
- admire,
- adore,
- adulate,
- aggrandize,
- apotheose,
- apotheosize,
- appreciate,
- beatify,
- belaud,
- bepraise,
- bless,
- blow up,
- boast of,
- brag about,
- canonize,
- celebrate,
- crown,
- cry up,
- defer to,
- elevate,
- emblazon,
- ennoble,
- enshrine,
- entertain respect for,
- enthrone,
- esteem,
- eulogize,
- exalt,
- extol,
- favor,
- fetish,
- fetishize,
- flatter,
- glamorize,
- glorify,
- hero-worship,
- hold in esteem,
- hold in reverence,
- honor,
- idol,
- idolatrize,
- idolify,
- idolize,
- immortalize,
- laud,
- lionize,
- look up to,
- magnify,
- make legendary,
- make much of,
- overpraise,
- panegyrize,
- pay tribute,
- porter aux nues,
- praise,
- prize,
- puff,
- puff up,
- raise,
- regard,
- respect,
- revere,
- reverence,
- saint,
- salute,
- sanctify,
- set up,
- think highly of,
- think much of,
- think well of,
- throne,
- trumpet,
- uplift,
- value,
- venerate,
- worship