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glo·ri·fy  (glôr-f, glr-)
tr.v. glo·ri·fied, glo·ri·fy·ing, glo·ri·fies
1. To give glory, honor, or high praise to; exalt.
2. To cause to be or seem more glorious or excellent than is actually the case: Your descriptions have glorified an average house into a mansion.
3. To give glory to, especially through worship.
[Middle English glorifien, from Old French glorefier, from Latin glrificre : glria, glory + -ficre, -fy.]
glori·fi·cation (-f-kshn) n.
glori·fier n.
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Adj.1.glorified - accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing
canonised, canonized
authorised, authorized - endowed with authority


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"Our good old chair being thus glorified," proceeded Grandfather, "it glittered with a great deal more splendor than it had exhibited just a century before, when the Lady Arbella brought it over from England.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Neither Anne nor Leslie ever forgot Captain Jim's face when they gave him the book--HIS book, transfigured and glorified.
Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
And suddenly, from the mysterious and awful far-away world in which he had been living for the last twenty-two hours, Levin felt himself all in an instant borne back to the old every-day world, glorified though now, by such a radiance of happiness that he could not bear it.
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