Use "deify" in a sentence

1. Alexander has always deified the subconscious but we don't talk about it either

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2. These festivals took place quarterly, when the King paid his periodical visit to show his respect to the deified shades of the departed, and also to satiate his real, and their imaginary, blood-lust, by the decapitation of twenty victims, whose blood was collected in the sacred bowl

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3. 7 And it came to pass in those days there was in the land of Chittim a man in the city of Puzimna, whose name was Uzu, and he became degenerately deified by the children of Chittim, and the man died and had no son, only one daughter whose name was Jania

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4. 7 And it came to pass in those days there was in the land of Chittim a man in the city of Puzimna whose name was Uzu and he became degenerately deified by the children of Chittim and the man died and had no son only one daughter whose name was Jania

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5. In the gross emphasis of his attributes, in the leer of his satyr-countenance, was reflected the abominable cynicism of the degenerate cult which deified him

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6. And even as they had to watch their land get plundered and their people impoverished, they were further insulted by being forced to honor deified emperors

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7. The so-called gods and goddesses were actually our ancestors who were deified for mythological purposes

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8. The previous pride of Britain, deified by Danny Boyle at the start of the Olympics last year, it seems the NHS has hit very bad times indeed

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9. Though for centuries, the gods, who paid a deaf ear to the Hindu prayers to get them rid of the Mohammedan rule, granted them their ‘man for the moment’ in Sardar Patel but they had to contend with Gandhi the autocrat, who by then was deified by them as the Mahatma of the time

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10. The deified Naga’s disciples sang incantations that echoed from afar as their droning rebounded off an unseen canopy

11. The pyramidal apex of every accumulation was deified, or glorified, or revered, or respected and sanctified in many, many ways

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12. How did the Jewish Semitic culture and religion develop in Egypt? As an ethnic tribe of slaves, building huge stone pyramids for their slave masters… for over 600 years; doomed to serve a, remote, cruel, unseen deified, ruler

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13. Originally: most rulers were either deified, or seen to uphold their society's religious values

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14. It goes back to Egyptians and Ethiopians experimenting with chemicals… trying to preserve deified dead corpses for eternity because these deified dead rulers were terrified of their bodies rotting after they died

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15. Simply because of accumulation; the spectator or viewer is deified as a social institution: their very numbers are worshipped

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16. Second: It assumes that there is a deified system of judging this

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17. For thousands of years: the lower classes had to go out in person to worship their deified idols

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18. People do not have to go outside to worship their deified idols from huge distances electronically

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19. They just sit down beside each other in darkened rooms, and stop living, and worship their deified idols-of-choice on TV for hours on end

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20. And like the Chinese Emperors… none of these deified idols know they are being worshipped unless they actually come out of their elite enclaves and meet their adoring masses in huge televised, glamorized public spectacles of more even more idolization as they are given awards and praised, and as they all praise themselves and each other, and hug each other, and pat each other on the back to show that they all like each other

21. Everything done by the lower class, the middleclass, and the nobles… was supposed to be only to increase the renown and glory and power and wealth of the sacred, sanctified, deified King, or Queen

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22. What would have 4,000 years of Ancient Egyptian civilization been like 7,000 years ago … if those ancient Egyptians had not spent most of their wealth and time and energy building dead, useless pyramids of dead stone for their, deified rulers?

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23. Until they had successfully leached all his true humanity out of him, and then they deified him

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24. How people can be trained to worship the idea of self-sacrifice embodied in a deified figurehead… but never dream of even attempting to do it themselves

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25. Those deified Ten Commandments were broken by the Jews before they were made

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26. Simply by claiming to be in touch with the other side… by setting themselves up as mouthpieces of their dead, departed ancestors, or whatever unseen spirits or deities that tribe happened to worship… they became a special, privileged, elite class of governing rulers holding the power of life and death over their fellow tribesmen… until for untold thousands of years… these tribes ended up spending most of their energy, effort and wealth; appeasing and worshipping all unseen spirits: which incidentally, is exactly what any human entity on the other side would enjoy most: power, fame, and the ultimate status of being deified as virtual gods

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27. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the presence of those marshals who betrayed; in the presence of that senate which passed from one dunghill to another, insulting after having deified; in the presence of that idolatry which was loosing its footing and spitting on its idol,—it was a duty to turn aside the head

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28. Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way? Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a colour as the visible absence of colour; and at the same time the concrete of all colours; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows—a colourless, all-colour of atheism from which we shrink? And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues—every stately or lovely emblazoning—the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colourless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge—pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him

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29. And this reminds me that had the great Sperm Whale been known to the young Orient World, he would have been deified by their child-magian thoughts

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30. They deified the crocodile of the Nile, because the crocodile is tongueless; and the Sperm Whale has no tongue, or at least it is so exceedingly small, as to be incapable of protrusion

31. The Greeks deified nature and bequeathed the world their religion, that is, philosophy and art

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32. Rome deified the people in the State, and bequeathed the idea of the State to the nations

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33. Patriotism could have some sense in the ancient world, when every nation, more or less homogeneous in its structure, professing one and the same state religion, and submitting to the same unlimited power of its supreme, deified ruler, appeared to itself as an island in the ocean of the barbarians, which ever threatened to inundate it

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34. State religions deified emperors and states

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