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de·i·fy

 (dē′ə-fī′, dā′-)
tr.v. dei·fied, dei·fy·ing, dei·fies
1. To make a god of; raise to the condition of a god.
2. To worship or revere as a god: deify a leader.
3. To idealize; exalt: deifying success.

[Middle English deifien, from Old French deifier, from Late Latin deificāre, from deificus, deific; see deific.]

de′i·fi′er n.
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In common with nearly all races of Barsoom he clung, more or less inherently, to a certain exalted form of ancestor worship, though it was rather the memory or legends of the virtues and heroic deeds of his forebears that he deified rather than themselves.
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Master Changchun, or Qiu Chuji, was an advisor to the Mongolian conquerer who became deified as a Taoist Immortal.
Iron-fist application of equality in this world of ideal materialism, examined in the prism of Communist experience, however, exposes the supremacy of deified mortals, a politburo, party officials, etc.
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