Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To deify; render divine; regard as divine. Also divinise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To invest with a divine character; to deify.

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  • verb transitive To make divine; to make godlike.

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Examples

  • Very little in the new grant of power or authority to the Fed takes account of the idea that, for example, a Fed that is supposed to supervise, scrutinize, divinize, and so on, in all these new ways will not the same Fed, the stable ideal of which we relied upon in giving it all these new functions.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Financial Regulation Overhaul Stumbling? And Can the Fed Remain ‘the Fed’ After the Overhaul? 2009

  • You want to divinize the entire creation, to taste its bliss nature.

    Tantric philosophy Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • These chosen souls, He inundates with celestial gifts, -- revealing glimpses of His glory and beauty, transforming them into Himself, so as in a manner to divinize them, and even sometimes imparting visible external marks of their sublime spiritual exaltation.

    The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation A Religious of the Ursuline Community

  • The tendency to divinize the totem is at least as much dependent on the positive sense of unity with it, as on the negative scruples which limit the relation in each particular case.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • Is it necessary to point out the folly as well as the crime of this delusion -- the ludicrous inconsequence of men who divinize humanity yet revile what they call "society"?

    Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

  • Peoples, whose ignorance of the physical laws of nature has not been compensated by revealed teaching, have invariably personalized the forces of nature, and, feeling that their welfare depended on the beneficent exercise of these powers, have come to divinize them.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • The tendency to divinize the totem is at least as much dependent on the positive sense of unity with it, as on the negative scruples which limit the relation in each particular case.

    Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning Edward Carpenter 1886

  • Our existence is a vertical lifeline thrown down into dead matter in order to divinize and redeem it.

    One Cʘsmos 2010

  • The Bible thus holds off all the attempts of human beings to divinize or render ultimate some worldly reality.

    The Register's Daily Blog 2009

  • What could an earthly power, so in love with power as to divinize it in the person of its emperor, do with such dangerous powerlessness but capture and destroy it?

    Inhabitatio Dei 2008

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