Definitions

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  • adjective Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme regard; godlike.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of deify.

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Examples

  • Thus Chun-ti is sometimes described as a deified Chinese General and sometimes identified with the Indian goddess Marîcî.

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896

  • The problem is when the belief is moving from messiah to a kind of deified messiah and as this begins to be understood by the Jews, then opposition to this movement is no longer a political thing.

    CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2009 2009

  • According to Christian theology, the saint is "deified," - not because Atman is Brahman, but because God has assimilated the purified human spirit in to the divine substance by an act of grace.

    The Perennial Philosophy 2008

  • The problem is when the belief is moving from messiah to a kind of deified messiah and as this begins to be understood by the Jews, then opposition to this movement is no longer a political thing.

    CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2008 2008

  • And is it just a coincidence that "deified" is a palindrome?

    Kosher Candidates 2008

  • The problem is when the belief is moving from messiah to a kind of deified messiah and as this begins to be understood by the Jews, then opposition to this movement is no longer a political thing.

    CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2007 2007

  • The problem is when the belief is moving from messiah to a kind of deified messiah and as this begins to be understood by the Jews, then opposition to this movement is no longer a political thing.

    CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2007 2007

  • The problem is when the belief is moving from messiah to a kind of deified messiah and as this begins to be understood by the Jews, then opposition to this movement is no longer a political thing.

    CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2006 2006

  • The problem is when the belief is moving from messiah to a kind of deified messiah and as this begins to be understood by the Jews, then opposition to this movement is no longer a political thing.

    CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2006 2006

  • The problem is when the belief is moving from messiah to a kind of deified messiah and as this begins to be understood by the Jews, then opposition to this movement is no longer a political thing.

    CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2006 2006

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  • Thanks to deified, this is a palindrome containing palindromes.

    February 18, 2009