deify Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb consider as a god or godlike
    • These young men deify financial success
  2. verb exalt to the position of a God
    • the people deified their King

WordNet

De"i*fy transitive verb
Etymology
F. déifier, LL. deificare, fr. L. deificus. See Deific, Deity, -fy.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Deified ; present participle & verbal noun Deifying
Definitions
  1. To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Cæsar was deified.
  2. 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.
  3. To render godlike.
    By our own spirits are we deified. Wordsworth.

Webster 1913