devised

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The enigmatical goddess Fortuna, who seems to have had early associations with the Sun,3190 gained fresh strength from the ideas of the divinised destiny of eastern monarchs.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

If so, China too has its ancient Supreme Being, who is not a divinised aspect of nature.

From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew

Who his divinity was, what she was, and why she should be divinised, can be gathered from a conversation her worshipper held with an old school-fellow.

From The Opal Serpent by Hume, Fergus

During that long period of time, the most delicate gradations of human personality, divinised, idealised, were presented to the contemplation of the consciousness which gave them being, in appropriate types.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

Speaking accurately, he was a hero or divinised mortal, on the same grade as Helen immortalised for her beauty, as Achilles for his prowess, or as Herakles for his great deeds.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington