I do not wish to drift into a cheap cynicism, and apotheosize the old days at the expense of the new.

In all ages, in order to justify the passions, it was necessary to apotheosize them.

This florid and fulsome eulogy was written by that singular being who could thus flatter, and almost apotheosize, the inventor in public, while in secret he was doing everything to thwart him, and who never, as long as he lived, ceased to antagonize him, and later accused him of having claimed the credit of an invention all the essentials of which were invented by others.

Yet why apotheosize conquerors at all?

It was evidently borrowed from the pagan mysteries, where Bacchus, Adonis, Proserpine, and a host of other apotheosized beings play the same rôle that Hiram does in the Masonic mysteries.

I said, dexterously catching up an argumentum ad hominem, "It is an exalted dolphin,an apotheosized dolphin,a dolphin made glorious.

An apothecary might have figured as an M.D. A greengrocer might have been apotheosized into a merchant.