That at this day the inhabitants of India deify their principal rivers is a well known fact; the waters of the Ganges possess an uncommon sanctity; and the modern Arabians, like the Ishmaelites of old, concur with the Danmonii in their reverence of springs and fountains.

For as it is scientific in all its parts, and in these parts comprehends all that can be known by man in theology and ethics, and all that is necessary for him to know in physics, it must consequently contain in itself the source of all that is great and good both to individuals and communities, must necessarily exalt while it benefits, and deify while it exalts.

This word is derived from [Greek: Theourgia], or that religious operation which deifies him by whom it is performed as much as is possible to man.

To grow bigger every moment in your own conceit, and the world to lessen: to deify yourself at the expense of your species; to judge the worldthis is the acme and supreme point of your mysterythese the true PLEASURES of SULKINESS.

He did not deify the reason, like Erigina, nor throw himself on authority like Bernard.

Therefore the nurse of vertue I am hight, And golden trompet of eternitie, That lowly thoughts lift up to heavens hight, And mortall men have powre to deifie: 460 Bacchus and Hercules I raisd to heaven, And Charlemaine amongst the starris seaven.

"Ne let Elisa, royall shepheardesse, 225 The praises of my parted* love envy, For she hath praises in all plenteousnesse Powr'd upon her, like showers of Castaly, By her owne shepheard, Colin, her own shepheard, That her with heavenly hymnes doth deifie, 230 Of rusticke Muse full hardly to be betterd.

It is a lame and impotent attempt at self-justification, revealing on every page the writer's distrust of the virtues which he exalts, and of man whose reason and majesty he deifies,even of the friendships in which he sought consolation, and of the retirements where he hoped for rest.

Caprice, interest, vanity, disposition, the uneasiness that affects our hearts when they are unoccupied, these are the sources of the great sentiment we wish to deify!

enthrone, signalize, immortalize, deify, exalt to the skies; hand one's name down to posterity.

V. worship idols, worship pictures, worship relics; deify, canonize.

"Having proceeded to deify leeks and onions, you, oh Egypt, worship such gods.

The old man deifies prudence: the youth commits himself to magnanimity and chance.

He does not eliminate his animal instincts, he only deifies and tries to explain them, but as this cannot be done without excessive simplificationaccording to the law of the mind which in order to grasp must let go an equal amounthe disguises and intensifies them in one direction.

No more the leonine heroic head, The ruling arm, great heart, and kingly eye; No more th' alchemic tongue that turned poor themes Of statecraft into golden-glowing dreams; No more a man for man to deify: Laurel no morethe heroic age is dead.

We should "take the good the Gods provide us:" a fine and original vein of poetry is not one of their most contemptible gifts, and the rest is scarcely worth thinking of, except as it may be a mortification to those who expect perfection from human nature; or who have been idle enough at some period of their lives, to deify men of genius as possessing claims above it.

Whoever deprives the monad of activity falls into the error of Spinoza; whoever takes away its passivity or matter falls into the opposite error, for he deifies individual beings.

For in its spiritual development from all of man's powers, it adopts all that is noble and lovable; and by spiritualizing the human form and raising man above himself, it closes the circle of his life and activity, and deifies him in the present, in which both past and future are included.

My belly I do deify.

She, at least, couldn't deify him.

The latter first deifies his country (Bande Mataram, or "Hail, Mother!" is the Nationalist motto) and then identifies Bimala with the object of his worship, which seems a very convenient theory.

Medwin's Biography and Mrs. Shelley's Memorials are worthless, because they attempt to idealise and deify the poet; and then there is The Real Shelley, which is like a tedious legal cross-examination of a highly imaginative and sensitive creature by a shrewd and boisterous barrister.

The man deifies his Beloved, the mother her child, and all men everlasting humanity.

How in the world can you deify a person whom you don't remember?

In politics their pride is that they are practical, and, indeed, they are perhaps less ready than Europeans to deify theories and catchwords.