Deify

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To render godlike.

II. Deify ·vt To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money.

III. Deify ·vt To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to Apotheosize; as, Julius Caesar was deified.