deificate

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verb

To deify.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

verbdeificate (third-person singular simple present deificates, present participle deificating, simple past and past participle deificated)

present singular third person deificates · participle present deificating · participle past deificated · past deificated

  1. nonstandardtransitivechiefly non-native speakers' EnglishTo deify.

    > Actually, that > shouldn't matter, since he's still treated as a deity. Exactly. Deificated, not messianized. And not before his presidency, after.

    2008 March 20, Tomasz Radko, “Yet another sober analysis”, in alt.sports.baseball.atlanta-braves.coffeeshop (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026
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    Maybe one day if they like racing and they read about Ayrton Senna they'll decide for themselves he was the greatest driver of all time. Since they won't have been able to see him race, will they be stupid idiots because they deificate him ???!??

    1995 March 11, Eric Lessard, “Gilles flamefest - First and Last Answer From E.Lessard (Corrected Version)”, in rec.autos.sport.f1 (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026

    For example, this was especially pronounced, during the Han dynasty descent, for the Neo-Taoist entrance, "who saw the Tao was being "distorted and mostly degenerated into a form of magic power and superstition" (fn). Which, to simply addendum re 'subject', included deificating.

    1999 December 6, Miller Jew [signed Zhou], “deities in philosophical taoism”, in alt.philosophy.taoism (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026

    About fascism- national socialism, key difference is nationalism - not so pushed in Mussolini Italy, Spain, Portugal and Pinochet Chile but deificated in Third Reich and strongly supported in Russia.

    2007 December 19, vello, “Meanwhile, back in the Bushian democracy...”, in soc.culture.baltics (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026

Origin

  1. Latindeificō
  2. Englishdeificate

Back-formation from deification. For its use by non-native speakers, compare Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish deificar and Italian deificare, from Latin deificō.

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