deificate
deificate verb: to deify.
Verb
deificate (third-person singular simple present deificates, present participle deificating, simple past and past participle deificated)
- To deify.
- Maybe one day if they like racing and they read about Ayrton Senna they'll decide for themselves he was the greatest driver of all time. Since they won't have been able to see him race, will they be stupid idiots because they deificate him ???!??1995 March 11, Eric Lessard, “Gilles flamefest - First and Last Answer From E.Lessard (Corrected Version)”, in rec.autos.sport.f1 (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026
- For example, this was especially pronounced, during the Han dynasty descent, for the Neo-Taoist entrance, "who saw the Tao was being "distorted and mostly degenerated into a form of magic power and superstition" (fn). Which, to simply addendum re 'subject', included deificating.1999 December 6, Miller Jew [signed Zhou], “deities in philosophical taoism”, in alt.philosophy.taoism (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026
Forms of deificate
| third-person singular present | deificates |
|---|---|
| present participle | deificating |
| past participle | deificated |
| past | deificated |
Origin of deificate
Back-formation from deification. For its use by non-native speakers, compare Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish deificar and Italian deificare, from Latin deificō.
Questions about deificate
- What does deificate mean?
- Deificate means to deify.
- What part of speech is deificate?
- Deificate is a verb.
- What is the past tense of deificate?
- The past tense of deificate is deificated.
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