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apotheosis|æpəʊˈθiːəsɪs, əˌpɒθiːˈəʊsɪs|
[a. L. apotheōsis (Tertull.), a. Gr. ἀποθέωσις, n. of action f. ἀποθεό-ειν to deify, f. ἀπό off, (in comb.) completely + θεό-ειν to make a god of, f. θεός god. The great majority of orthoepists, from Bailey and Johnson downward, give the first pronunciation, but the second is now more usual.]
1. The action of ranking, or fact of being ranked, among the gods; transformation into a god, deification; divine status.
[1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 759 Truely Aurelius Prudentius in his Apotheosis..saith.] 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. 32 That which the Grecians call Apotheosis..was the supreme honour, which a man could attribute unto man. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. ii. 137 The Apotheoses or Inaugurations of many of the Heathenish Deities. 1879Farrar Paul I. 664 The early Emperors rather discouraged..this tendency to flatter them by a premature apotheosis.
2. By extension: The ascription of extraordinary, and as it were divine, power or virtue; glorification, exaltation; the canonization of saints.
[1553–87Foxe A. & M. I. 662/2 You..affirm, that in this my Calendar, I make an αποθεωσιν, or Canonization of false Martyrs.] 1651Hobbes Govt. & Soc. xviii. §14. 362 The canonization of Saints which the Heathen called Apotheosis. 1739Gentl. Mag. (title) The Apotheosis of Milton. 1758Jortin Erasmus I. 305 He promises..to send him the apotheosis of his friend Reuchlin. 1879O'Connor Beaconsfield 73 The meeting developed into an apotheosis of the Marquis of Chandos.
3. The deification, glorification, or exaltation of a principle, practice, etc.; a deified ideal.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋211 Because in the Apotheosis of phlebotomy they will have good bloud emitted. 1810Coleridge Friend (1865) 143 The apotheosis of familiar abuses..is the vilest of superstitions. 1846Prescott Ferd. & Is. I. Introd. 35 The apotheosis of chivalry, in the person of their apostle and patron, St. James. 1852A. Jameson Leg. Madonna (1857) 47 Here all is spotless grace, etherial delicacy..the very apotheosis of womanhood.
4. In loose usage: Ascension to glory, departure or release from earthly life; resurrection.
1649C. Walker Hist. Indep. ii. 111 His Majesties Speech upon the Scaffold, and His Death or Apotheosis. 1680H. More Apocal. Apoc. Pref. 17 The most assured argument..of the apotheosis of Christ. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth I. 326 The general apotheosis; when death and hell shall be swallowed up in victory. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. i. (1872) 25 Let us hope the Leave-alone principle has now got its apotheosis; and taken wing towards higher regions than ours. 1858R. Vaughan Ess. & Rev. I. 8 The philosophical school of Alexandria had become extinct, and there was no apotheosis. |
