Definition of "apotheosized" [apotheosized]

• Simple past tense and past participle of apotheosize. (verb)

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• "The ancient Greeks, Chinese, Hindus and many other cultures and civilizations all had their initiates who were highly developed mentally, morally, and spiritually – these men and women were well beyond their time and the lay people viewed them as demi-gods and apotheosized them."
• "And there is no more jealous a god than the apotheosized Self."
• "But with a rekindled sense of religious identity, Soviet Jews pressed the fight for freedom, their struggles apotheosized by the nine-year imprisonment of activist Natan Sharansky, who was finally released and permitted to emigrate in 1986."