apotheotic

English

Adjective

apotheotic (not comparable)

1. Relating to apotheosis.
   • 2004, Eireann Marshall, Fiona McHardy, Women's Influence on Classical Civilization, page 89:

     Apotheotic scenes become common in the imperial period after entering aristocratic funerary practice and imagery in the late Republic (Price 1987).

   • 2007, Moshe Idel, Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism, page 6:

     The apotheotic vector is totally marginal in the Hebrew Bible and it appears solely in the brief descriptions of the ascent to heaven by Enoch and Elijah.

   • 2016, Branko van Oppen de Ruiter, Berenice II Euergetis: Essays in Early Hellenistic Queenship:

     The poem's dense allusions to ascension emphasize the apotheotic atmosphere. This celestial ascent is accompanied by mourning and other funerary rituals […]

Translations

relating to apotheosis

• French: apothéotique (fr)
• Portuguese: apoteótico