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1632 W. Struther Looking Glasse for Princes & Popes in Looking Glasse for Princes & People iii. xx. 93 They are lyke their forefathers the Romans, who apotheosed manie wicked men; but did not so to Cato.

1744 Universal Hist. VII. iv. xii. 424 Both antient Germans and Gauls..fell into the same superstition with the Greeks, and Romans, of dedicating them [sc. cities, castles, &c.] to certain deities, and even personifying and apotheosing them.

1771 ‘M. A. Porny’ Elements Heraldry (ed. 2) vi. 209 Emperors when they were Apotheosed or ranked among the Gods.

1825 J. Bentham Indications Respecting Ld. Eldon 83 These offices will..have been sublimated into sinecures, and the incumbents apotheosed into so many Dii majorum.

1869 Echo 31 Aug. Persons less gifted have not the power of apotheosing vice.

1957 Chicago Rev. 11 No. 1. 87 I was apotheosed by my students.

2006 P. S. Cassia in F. Coronil & J. Skurski States of Violence 242 His suffering is apotheosed as an imaginary suffering collective peasant body.