deify

created by pingouin

(idea) by pingouin (4.3 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 14:15:39

To place on a really, really high pedestal. It might be a person (Linus is God, all tongue-in-cheek, all in good fun; or is it?). It might be an idea - free speech, for instance. I say absolute freedom corrupts absolutely, like the freedom to both shout "Fire!" in a crowded building and the freedom to start such fires. Freedoms tend to be gods - if you're perceived as attacking, say, sexual freedom, or the "freedom to make money", people might reach for their slingshots and stones.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:57:43

De"i*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Deifying.] [F. d'eifier, LL. deificare, fr. L. deificus. See Deific, Deity, -fy.]

To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Caesar was deified.

To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money.

He did again to extol and deify the pope. Bacon.

To render godlike.

By our own spirits are we deified. Wordsworth.

printable version
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pity this busy monster,manunkind,	Begod	Native American	The Church of Mez
deification	deified	Philology	P
abbr	Deitate	Divinify	Demideify
Janus	Can't cook, won't cook	Herodian	godhood
Forum Romanum	Divinize	Minify

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