Glorified

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
glorified
    adj 1: accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing [syn:
           {canonized}, {canonised}, {glorified}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
glorified \glorified\ adj.
   1. accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing.

   Syn: canonized.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. Made to appear more important or better than it actually
      is; as, The Chief Financial Officer was little more than a
      glorified accountant.
      [PJC]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Glorify \Glo"ri*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Glorified}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Glorifying}.] [F. glorifier, L. glorificare; gloria
   glory + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See {-fy}.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. To make glorious by bestowing glory upon; to confer honor
      and distinction upon; to elevate to power or happiness, or
      to celestial glory.
      [1913 Webster]

            Jesus was not yet glorified.          --John vii.
                                                  39.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To make glorious in thought or with the heart, by
      ascribing glory to; to acknowledge the excellence of; to
      render homage to; to magnify in worship; to adore.
      [1913 Webster]

            That we for thee may glorify the Lord. --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. To make (something or someone) appear to be more
      important, splendid, or valuable than would normally be
      thought; as, to glorify every routine job by giving its
      performer the title "engineer"..
      [PJC]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "glorified":
      Elysian, Olympian, affected, aggrandized, angelic, apotheosized,
      archangelic, awesome, beatific, beatified, big, blessed, canonized,
      celestial, cherubic, counterfeit, deified, elevated, eminent,
      ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, ersatz, ethereal, exalted,
      excellent, extramundane, extraterrestrial, fake, from on high,
      grand, great, heavenly, held in awe, high, high and mighty,
      high-flown, high-sounding, imitation, immortal, immortalized,
      in glory, lofty, magnified, martyred, mighty, otherworldly,
      overdone, overrated, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac, paradisic,
      pompous, pretend, pretentious, redeemed, sainted, saintly,
      sanctified, saved, seraphic, sham, shrined, sublime, substitute,
      supereminent, supernal, throned, transcendental, transmundane,
      unearthly, unworldly

    

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