divinize

English

Alternative forms

• divinise (mainly UK)

Etymology

From divine +‎ -ize.

Verb

divinize (third-person singular simple present divinizes, present participle divinizing, simple past and past participle divinized)

1. (transitive) To make divine; to make godlike.
   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 57:

     As to the tendency to divinise these totems, this arises no doubt partly out of question (2).

Synonyms

• deify

Derived terms

• divinisation, divinization

Portuguese

Verb

divinize

1. inflection of divinizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative