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Word Meanings - DIVINIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To invest with a divine character; to deify. M. Arnold. Man had divinized all those objects of awe. Milman.

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  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • INVESTIGATION
    The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
  • CHARACTER
    1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
  • INVESTIGATIVE
    Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.
  • THOSE
    The plural of that. See That.
  • DIVINIZE
    To invest with a divine character; to deify. M. Arnold. Man had divinized all those objects of awe. Milman.
  • CHARACTERISM
    A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
  • INVESTIENT
    Covering; clothing. Woodward.
  • 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
  • INVESTITURE
    Livery of seizin. The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the ceremony oinvestiture, or open delivery of possession. Blackstone. 3. That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering. While we yet have on Our gross
  • 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.
  • INVEST
    To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town. 7. To lay out in business with the as, to invest money in bank stock. (more info) 1. To
  • CHARACTERIZE
    1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
  • INVESTMENT
    The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded. The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort within six days after its investments. Marshall. 4. The laying out of money in the
  • CHARACTERISTICALLY
    In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
  • DIVINERESS
    A woman who divines. Dryden.
  • INVESTIGABLE
    Capable or susceptible of being investigated; admitting research. Hooker.
  • CHARACTERIZATION
    The act or process of characterizing.
  • 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
  • CHARACTERISTICAL
    Characteristic.
  • SPATHOSE
    See SPATHIC
  • DISDEIFY
    To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition. Feltham.
  • MISCHARACTERIZE
    To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
  • REINVESTMENT
    The act of investing anew; a second or repeated investment.
  • REINVEST
    To invest again or anew.
  • MENDELIAN CHARACTER
    A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.
  • SUPERINVESTITURE
    An outer vestment or garment. Bp. Horne.

 

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