apotheosized

The ancient Greeks, Chinese, Hindus and many other cultures and civilizations all had their initiates who were highly developed mentally, morally, and spiritually – these men and women were well beyond their time and the lay people viewed them as demi-gods and apotheosized them.

Hand Signed | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

But with a rekindled sense of religious identity, Soviet Jews pressed the fight for freedom, their struggles apotheosized by the nine-year imprisonment of activist Natan Sharansky, who was finally released and permitted to emigrate in 1986.

Lost in Transit Sam Sacks 2011

And there is no more jealous a god than the apotheosized Self.

Another Valient Defense of Science 2009

After eight years of a presidency that valued cronyism over brains (or even competence) and embraced an anti-intellectualism apotheosized by Sarah Palin, it's a godsend to have a president who puts a premium on merit.

Steven G. Brant: Progressives Deserve to Be Worried About the Obama Administration 2010

But given that most Roman emperors expected to be apotheosized after death, at least his choice of signature had some logic behind it.

Please remain seated - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca 2010

Though V.F. elevated all of its elect to the same celestial plane, once apotheosized, nobody was sacred.

Vanity Fair: The Early Years, 1914-1936 Collins, Amy Fine 2009

It's always fascinating to return to something that everyone claims to cherish and feigns familiarity with, but that is simultaneously so apotheosized and abstracted as to become cold and inanimate.

Adam Hanft: A Geek's Fourth of July: Reading the Declaration of Independence 2008

And then we digress .. onto his love of Proust -- brilliantly apotheosized; and his own conditioning in Existentialism ...

Christopher Lydon: Thank you, Norman Mailer 2008

The legendary Earp, embodied by the serenely laconic Henry Fonda, was apotheosized in John Ford's spare and beautiful "My Darling Clementine" (1946), a movie blissfully unconcerned with the facts.

Kevin Costner Rides Again 2008

You must have glided like a breeze about me — seen into a heart not worthy of scrutiny, jotted down words that cannot justify attention — before you could have apotheosized the song in so exquisite a manner.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006