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Definition of Apotheoses
1. apotheosis [n] - See also: apotheosis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apotheoses
Literary usage of Apotheoses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology: An Inquiry by Richard Payne Knight (1876)
"... the tact or taste of a scholar, has employed all his acuteness and all his
virulence in its defense."1 DISGRACEFUL apotheoses OF ANCIENT EMPERORS. zio. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The majority of such apotheoses would be regarded as mere matters of official
form; in some instances, however, it was otherwise. We learn from Capitolinus ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"88), fully believed in the divinity of I-iS-ja Caesar, hinting at the same time
that this was by no —ri-« tie case with the majority of the apotheoses ..."
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