to apotheosize
- verb
- /əˈpɑːθiəˌzaɪz/
- Literature
:
apoteosizar
- If the frieze is viewed as moving predominantly from right to left, then the endpoints of the action, the beginning of the charge to battle, and the final adventus mark the limits of the frieze in much the same way as Herakles must fight the Nemean lion first and be apotheosized last.
Either way, to see it would apotheosize the threshold.
- Either way, to see it would apotheosize the threshold.
Examples
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If students listen to and perform musical monuments only from the past, they develop a curatorial view of music, apotheosizing the past without regard for the present.
Academic text (2001) -
Apotheosizing the individual, Thatcher's rhetoric again casts her opposition.
Academic text (2016) -
Either way, to see it would apotheosize the threshold.
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"Apotheosized in death, Roland lives on."
Academic text (1991) -
The album closes with her being apotheosized, as if she might be an Egyptian goddess with several children on her knee.
Academic text (2017) -
Criticism apotheosized, if I may be allowed to be a little fanciful, is like bubbles without a liquid to be bubbles in.
Academic text (1991) -
This is democracy apotheosized in a quintessential Emersonism.
Academic text (2010) -
Yeah, the business world that Willard apotheosizes and pimps himself out as High Priest of.
Blog text (11) -
According to Prigent (67), Corneille apotheosized the heroic plan.
Academic text (1990) -
The media apotheosized the couple as star-crossed lovers, turning them into timeless icons of romance.
Synonyms
86
5.2
To make a person or thing seem better and more important than they really are
47
4.2
To make something seem more important or bigger than it really is
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4.9
Admire someone very much, often ignoring their faults
21
7.2
To raise someone to a higher position or praise them strongly
14
5.8
To think someone or something is more perfect than they really are
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5.8
To make someone or something look more attractive and exciting than they really are
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6.0
Admire someone so much you think they are perfect
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5.5
Treat something as more important than it should be
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7.5
To praise someone or something very much
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8.4
To treat someone like a god and admire them too much
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7.7
Treat someone like a famous person by giving public attention and praise
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9.5
To make something seem more important by adding details or exaggerating
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5.8
Praise something more than it really deserves
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7.7
To say something was a legend or better than it really was by ignoring faults
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6.5
Admire someone so much that you think they are perfect
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9.9
To make someone or something into a god
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6.4
To say too many good things about someone who does not deserve them
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8.3
To show that something has value, often by giving public support
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7.9
To make something seem much bigger or more important than it really is
To admire someone too much and ignore their faults
To make someone seem very brave and admired
To make a person or thing seem famous and admired by many
To praise someone very highly and make them seem perfect
To make someone seem like a hero by praising them too much
To make someone or something seem larger and more special than they really were
To admire someone too much and ignore their faults
How Glorified
- Literature
- Formal
21
7.2
86
5.2
- Formal
30
7.7
331
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
apotheosize = apotheosis (transparent) = apotheosis + ize
Formed by adding the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' to 'apotheosis', so the verb meaning 'to make into a god; to glorify' is directly predictable from the base.
Etymology
Apotheosize comes from Greek parts apo- 'from' and theos 'god', and you can see theos in theology. It literally means 'make into a god', so to apotheosize someone is to praise them so much you treat them like a god.