Word Meanings - DEIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.
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- PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - PRAISER
1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North. - DIVINER
1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one - DIVINELY
1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. Most divinely fair. Tennyson. 2. By the agency or influence of God. Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness. Macaulay. - PRAISEMENT
Appraisement. - PRAISELESS
Without praise or approbation. - EXALTATION
The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property. (more info) 1. The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation. Wondering at my flight, and change To this - EXCESSIVE
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly, - PRAISEWORTHILY
In a praiseworthy manner. Spenser. - APOTHEOSIS
1. The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing him among, "the gods;" deification. 2. Glorification; exaltation. "The apotheosis of chivalry." Prescott. "The noisy apotheosis of liberty and machinery." F. Harrison. - PRAISE
fr. pretium price. See Price, n., and cf. Appreciate, Praise, n., 1. To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts. "I praise well thy wit." Chaucer. Let her own works praise her in the gates. Prov. - DIVINERESS
A woman who divines. Dryden. - DEIFY
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 - DIVINENESS
The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence. Shak. - DIVINEMENT
Divination. - PRAISE-MEETING
A religious service mainly in song. - DIVINE
divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, 1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. "The immensity of the divine nature." Paley. 2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. "Divine protection." Bacon. - PRAISEFUL
Praiseworthy. - PRAISEWORTHY
Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy. Arbuthnot. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - DISDEIFY
To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition. Feltham. - OVERPRAISE
To praise excessively or unduly. - SUPERPRAISE
To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak. - SUPEREXALTATION
Elevation above the common degree. Holyday. - APPRAISE
1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels. 2. To estimate; to conjecture. Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson. 3. To praise; to commend. R. Browning. - UNDEIFY
To degrade from the state of deity; to deprive of the character or qualities of a god; to deprive of the reverence due to a god. Addison. - DISPRAISER
One who blames or dispraises. - APPRAISEMENT
The act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth. - SELF-EXALTATION
The act of exalting one's self, or the state of being so exalted.