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apotheotic en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Relating to apotheosis.
    • The poem's dense allusions to ascension emphasize the apotheotic atmosphere. This celestial ascent is accompanied by mourning and other funerary rituals […] 2016, Branko van Oppen de Ruiter, Berenice II Euergetis: Essays in Early Hellenistic Queenship:
    • Apotheotic scenes become common in the imperial period after entering aristocratic funerary practice and imagery in the late Republic (Price 1987). 2004, Eireann Marshall, Fiona McHardy, Women's Influence on Classical Civilization, page 89:
    • The apotheotic vector is totally marginal in the Hebrew Bible and it appears solely in the brief descriptions of the ascent to heaven by Enoch and Elijah. 2007, Moshe Idel, Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism, page 6:

Translations (2)

pt apoteótico (relating to apotheosis) · fr apothéotique (relating to apotheosis)