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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
apotheosise .
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Examples
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But it was as politically neutral as a drama about a major government player could be, with neither the self-seeking Mandelson nor his war-criminal associate (who was not played by any actor) apotheosised in the slightest.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2010
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The bridesmaids crowded to the window and turned their heads in the direction pointed out, at which motion eight earrings all swung as one: — not looking at Dick because they particularly wanted to see him, but with an important sense of their duty as obedient ministers of the will of that apotheosised being — the
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So etherealised by spirit as he was, and so apotheosised by worshipping admirers, did his footsteps, in the procession, really tread upon the dust of earth?
The Scarlet Letter 2002
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He lived with popularity, was fortunate enough to die before his reputation was exhausted, was deposited in the Pantheon, apotheosised in form, and his bust placed as a companion to that of Brutus, the tutelary genius of the Assembly.
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He lived with popularity, was fortunate enough to die before his reputation was exhausted, was deposited in the Pantheon, apotheosised in form, and his bust placed as a companion to that of Brutus, the tutelary genius of the Assembly.
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Several girls (of course everyone in the audience knew me) began to titter at my strange appearance, in my apotheosised bathrobe, in my close Van Dyke beard ....
Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922
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Several girls (of course everyone in the audience knew me) began to titter at my strange appearance, in my apotheosised bathrobe, in my close Van Dyke beard ....
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921
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So etherealised by spirit as he was, and so apotheosised by worshipping admirers, did his footsteps, in the procession, really tread upon the dust of earth?
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This morality sets up a forced, to the vast majority impossible, standard of 'personal holiness' which, when realised, has seldom resulted in anything but (1) an apotheosised priggism,
British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals J. Ellis Barker 1909
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Valenciennes lace, that being the simplest frock in her wardrobe; but she privately thought even Mrs. Washington's apotheosised lawns and organdies very "scrubby," and could never bring herself to anything less expensive than summer silks, made at the greatest house in Paris.
The Californians Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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