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  • adjective Placed on, or supported by, a pedestal; figuratively, exalted.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of pedestal.

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Examples

  • I think that women are so used to being pedestaled in plays as well.

    Kirsten Brandt: Director and Playwright. Also, Feminist. « Gender Across Borders 2010

  • I am one of those authors -- unadvertised, untoured, rarely pedestaled at industry events -- and I remain an author, I am convinced, because of the book bloggers who have found their way to the work that I do and have made it matter to others; I'm hardly the only beneficiary of such outright generosity.

    Beth Kephart: Do Book Bloggers Make a Difference? 2009

  • The base of a pedestaled stone bowl was found near the stele, in the annex to Kuttamuwa's house.

    Insight into the Soul 2008

  • BIEGLER: Well, you wouldn't really do so much the sort of traditional pedestaled-styled tables anymore.

    CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2006 2006

  • At one point the tracks bellied outward to accommodate a pedestaled statue of Professor Blondlot, holding aloft the first crude N-ray generator.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Mildewed sets of the classics locked in glass-fronted bookshelves, dusty candy in pedestaled dishes.

    Earthly Possessions Tyler, Anne 1977

  • Some of you, owing allegiance to a New England Alma Mater, may recall with smiles and perhaps mischievous satisfaction, the chequered career of the sculptured Sabrina in her various appearances and disappearances since the day, now long gone by, when in pedestaled repose she graced the college flower gardens.

    Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball William Hanford Edwards

  • Apparently she might never, even for a moment, enjoy the luxury of being a human being with ambitions like Stefan's own, but must remain ever pedestaled as his inspiration.

    The Nest Builder Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

  • She might have been a marble statue pedestaled in that window seat.

    Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Various

  • Even if Cupid appeared, he was decorously framed or pedestaled.

    The Art of Interior Decoration Grace Wood

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