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apotheotic

apotheotic adjective: relating to apotheosis.

Adjective

apotheotic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to apotheosis.
    • Apotheotic scenes become common in the imperial period after entering aristocratic funerary practice and imagery in the late Republic (Price 1987).2004, Eireann Marshall, Fiona McHardy, Women's Influence on Classical Civilization, page 89
    • The apotheotic vector is totally marginal in the Hebrew Bible and it appears solely in the brief descriptions of the ascent to heaven by Enoch and Elijah.2007, Moshe Idel, Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism, page 6

Questions about apotheotic

What does apotheotic mean?
Apotheotic means relating to apotheosis.
What part of speech is apotheotic?
Apotheotic is an adjective.

Words near apotheotic in the dictionary

  1. apotheosising
  2. apotheosize
  3. apotheosized
  4. apotheosizes
  5. apotheosizing
  6. apotheotic
  7. apotheotical
  8. apotheotically
  9. apotheses
  10. apothesine
  11. apothesis

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