divinize
English
Alternative forms
- divinise (mainly UK)
Etymology
divine + -ize
Verb
divinize (third-person singular simple present divinizes, present participle divinizing, simple past and past participle divinized)
- (transitive) To make divine; to make godlike.
- 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 57:
- As to the tendency to divinise these totems, this arises no doubt partly out of question (2).
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Synonyms
- deify
Derived terms
- divinisation, divinization
Portuguese
Verb
divinize
- inflection of divinizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative