v. [f. prec. + -IZE.] To elevate to, or as if to, the rank of a god; to deify, glorify, exalt.
1760. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, II. 280. I have apostrophiz’d thee, Trim, once before—and could I apotheosize thee also, with good company, I would do it.
1834. Emerson, Lett to Carlyle, in Athenæum (1882), No. 2852. 796/2. It is a singular piece of good nature in you to apotheosize him.
1851. H. Spencer, Soc. Stat., xvi. § 3. The rage for accumulation has apotheosized work.
