To make or treat something as divine or godlike; to deify or bestow godly status upon.
From Latin deificatus, past participle of deificare (to deify), combining deus (god) and facere (to make). This is an archaic or rare variant of 'deify' with the same Latin roots.
Medieval theologians used words like 'deicate' to describe the Incarnation—the idea that God became human—flipping the usual direction where humans deify things instead.
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