apotheosize
- v deify or glorify
- Because Bollywood films imitate an unfashionable genre (the romantic melodrama) while Hong Kong movies imitate and apotheosize the American action film.
- The revolution was over and all Brazil went to work to apotheosize Alberto Santos-Dumont, the air hero, in good South American style.
- Grave, deliberate, costly, he has gone on utilizing the genius with which few who deify him as a thinker, apotheosize him as a tragedian, credit him the genius for being funny.