deify• It would not do to deify a rebel against Rome.• But Albert Einstein has been deified by the scientificcommunity and society at large.• If they ruled well, emperors were deified - consigned to the place where the gods lived.• He was deified in the MiddleKingdom and a shrine for his cult was build on ElephantineIsland.• But because both systems deify one aspect of reality they produce problems which are insoluble within their own terms of reference.• Again we have seen only too clearly in some other countries what can happen if you personify and almost deify the State.• There was already by now a political and religious system, whose primitivebeliefsdeified the various forces of nature.• Nothing could have been more natural than to deify this powerful and benevolent force.