British English: to make divine or to treat as divine; equivalent to American 'divinize.'
From Latin 'divinus' plus the British suffix '-ise.' This represents the standard British spelling variant of the '-ize' ending.
George Bernard Shaw often used britishised spellings like this, and it's one reason why comparing British and American texts from the 1800s can look like different languages!
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