"deificate" meaning in English

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          "text": "Maybe one day if they like racing and they read about Ayrton Senna they'll decide for themselves he was the greatest driver of all time. Since they won't have been able to see him race, will they be stupid idiots because they deificate him ???!??",
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          "text": "For example, this was especially pronounced, during the Han dynasty descent, for the Neo-Taoist entrance, \"who saw the Tao was being \"distorted and mostly degenerated into a form of magic power and superstition\" (fn). Which, to simply addendum re 'subject', included deificating.",
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          "text": "About fascism- national socialism, key difference is nationalism - not so pushed in Mussolini Italy, Spain, Portugal and Pinochet Chile but deificated in Third Reich and strongly supported in Russia.",
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          "text": "> Actually, that\n> shouldn't matter, since he's still treated as a deity.\nExactly. Deificated, not messianized. And not before his presidency, after.",
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