Divinified

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Transformed into or regarded as divine or godlike in nature or status
2. Elevated or consecrated to a divine or holy level
3. Regarded as possessing qualities of a deity or being made sacred

Etymology: "Divinified" is the past tense and past participle of "divinify," which means to treat something as divine or to make it godlike. The verb is built from the Latin adjective "divinus," meaning "divine," with the English suffix "-fy," which comes from the Latin "-ficare" and turns a base into a verb meaning "to make or treat as." So the word is simply a divine base plus a make-it suffix, the same pattern found in "beautify" or "simplify." The suffix does most of the work here. Because "-fy" is a productive English ending, writers have long been able to attach it to almost any adjective or noun, and "divinify" follows that route rather than arriving as a ready-made borrowing. Its past forms follow regular English patterns, changing the "y" to "i" before "-ed."

Synonyms: deified, sanctified, consecrated, sacralized, hallowed

Antonyms: desecrated, profane, demythologized, unholy, irreverent