apotheosize AmE , also: apotheosise BrE

Michael David's abstract paintings renew immediacy, indeed, reconstitute, strengthen, and even apotheosize it.

The cake - the entire meal - would apotheosize with a Sauternes or prosecco, which won't overpower the homage to Madagascar.

Yet his posthumous reputation seems to have suffered in consequence, in spite of all his Gallic sympathies and not unsuccessful endeavours to apotheosize the "Irish Brigade".

Mr. Leonard did not; he tended to apotheosize his subjects by his exquisite attention to composition and photographic values, in somewhat the same manner as his mentor, Yousuf Karsh.

The lyrics for these numbers, which variously apotheosize banjos, the Irish, New York City and ice, are as laughably silly as the ginger peachy Hugh Wheeler dialogue.

Second place went to David Urban, 13, of Amarillo, Texas, who misspelled "renascent" and had finished 66th the prior year, followed by Yuni Kim, 12, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania in third, who went out on "apotheosize."

The Christians apotheosize Jesus and, in their argument with Muslims, seek confirmation of his divinity in the Qur'anic assertion that he spoke out in the cradle (19:29-34) and in the many miracles which he alone had been favored by God to perform.

To the Editor: Now that David Schiff has stumbled upon big-band swing, he is compelled to denigrate the Great American Symphonies and apotheosize the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra [ "In the 30's, Black Swing Was Golden," July 28 ] .