GLORIFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glorified mean? 

• GLORIFIED (adjective)
  The adjective GLORIFIED has 1 sense:

1. accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing

  Familiarity information: GLORIFIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLORIFIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing

Synonyms:

canonised; canonized; glorified

Similar:

authorised; authorized (endowed with authority)

 Context examples 

The bag is opened, and several quarts of tin money shower down upon the stage till it is quite glorified with the glitter.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It required some glorified petticoat to account for that 'Love-cycle,' and that's the shame of it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And by the by, it used to be uncommonly strange to me to consider, I remember, as I sat in Court too, how those dim old judges and doctors wouldn't have cared for Dora, if they had known her; how they wouldn't have gone out of their senses with rapture, if marriage with Dora had been proposed to them; how Dora might have sung, and played upon that glorified guitar, until she led me to the verge of madness, yet not have tempted one of those slow-goers an inch out of his road!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was a sort of written duet, wherein each glorified the other in loverlike fashion, very pleasant to read and satisfactory to think of, for no one had any objection to make.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It seems to me, at this hour, that I have never seen such sunlight as on those bright April afternoons; that I have never seen such a sunny little figure as I used to see, sitting in the doorway of the old boat; that I have never beheld such sky, such water, such glorified ships sailing away into golden air.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The little house ceased to be a glorified bower, but it became a home, and the young couple soon felt that it was a change for the better.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I was got up in a special great-coat and shawl, expressly to do honour to that distinguished eminence; had glorified myself upon it a good deal; and had felt that I was a credit to the coach.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So the only way in which he could express his rapture was to look at her, with an expression which glorified his face to such a degree that there actually seemed to be little rainbows in the drops that sparkled on his beard.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

All I know of the rest of the evening is, that I heard the empress of my heart sing enchanted ballads in the French language, generally to the effect that, whatever was the matter, we ought always to dance, Ta ra la, Ta ra la! accompanying herself on a glorified instrument, resembling a guitar.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)