Verb (used without object) : to idolize as did ancient Greece and Rome.    From Dictionary.com. 

His commanding officers said he was 'idolised' by his men for his operational experience and humour in the most difficult conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

His early death in 1989 at the age of forty has given him the kind of idolised immortality that the rest of the world bestows upon the likes of James Dean.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

Instead of the 'captive' concept the video leads to a scene where she is surrounded by diamonds as though some kind of idolised goddess, with men seated in a circle around her.    From Wordnik.com.  [JamaicaObserver.com | Lead Stories] Reference

To demythologise the man whom she'd falsely idolised.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Secret Vengeance]

This is not surprising when we have so idolised personal success.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Empathic Civilization': When Money No Longer Buys Happiness] Reference

And now the idolised Diva, Maria deLivnova is coming to Tristopolis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaney's Goth Noir Sci-Fantasy] Reference

He would be idolised -- a very nice situation, indeed, for a bullfinch!.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and I, Volume 1] Reference

He recognised Mark as a genius and I think he idolised him a little bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facebook's intriguing world revealed] Reference

We had a leader in Australia called John Howard and he idolised Ol dubya.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Overestimated Palin « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference

She idolised, almost worshipped this man who had so meekly begged her pardon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barchester Towers] Reference

Until 1979 or so, the royal family was idolised by many and ignored by the rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-04-01] Reference

Doris and their idolised young manager was no worse and might possibly soon be better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Initials Only] Reference

He idolised him, and the boy grew up believing that Ahmed Ben Hassan was his own father.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sheik] Reference

My aunt idolised him and called him a good-looking man, a cavalier and even a grenadier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Watch] Reference

He wished it — and why should he not have what he wished — he, whom she so fondly idolised?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phineas Finn] Reference

It felt like google, once idolised as the be all and end all of search engines, had betrayed me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Google is the evilest evil] Reference

The Mancunian was Britain's most popular fighter but the people who idolised him proved to be his downfall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ricky Hatton's love of the high life sent him crashing back to earth] Reference

The man who had been named as the slayer of Leonidas was this year's most idolised gladiator from the Games.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two For The Lions]

He said the public idolised Boesak and regarded him as an important leader in the struggle against apartheid.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He said Mandela should not be idolised and put on a pedestal but rather be viewed as an unsettling challenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"His passing away will leave a permanent vacuum in our movement, especially among the youth who idolised him.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

His passing away will leave a permanent vacuum in our movement, especially amongst the youth who idolised Gwala.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

But are you honestly telling me this little Geordie has the charisma and creativity necessary to be idolised by millions?.    From Wordnik.com.  [X Factor Betting Odds: X Factor Christmas Number One?] Reference

I completely agree with you about Albert – always idolised him, but thought it was just because he was from our school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Actors, motivation, and a conversation with Albert Finney… « Ken Wilson's Blog] Reference

So it had not been for nothing that Laura had nurtured her association with the cleric whom she knew quietly idolised her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

TV had become the means by which ANC and SA Communist Party figures were idealised - in some cases almost idolised - and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

She was a very good woman, and she idolised him; she lived on nothing but oatmeal, and every penny she had she spent on him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rudin] Reference

The boy was a fine boy, and his mother idolised him; the father, contrary to general expectation, continued to be very much in love.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

He does not hesitate to make his champion a prig, which is exactly what a youth so idolised by his family would be likely to become.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08] Reference

She was apparently idolised in her constituency, speaking up for paid holidays and supporting free trade for Sunderland shipbuilders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marion Phillips.] Reference

His whole family consisted of one little son, whom he idolised, and who, brought up by such a father, is likely to get on in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sportsman's Sketches] Reference

The sphere of childhood and the sphere of adulthood has the wide border of ever-expanding, idolised and desirable teen-age in between them.    From Wordnik.com.  [thinking with my fingers] Reference

United midfielder Darren Fletcher admits he idolised Beckham as a youngster coming through the ranks at Old Trafford.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Transsexual film-maker Kimberly Reed wows America with Prodigal Sons football team, which is as close to being idolised as many small-town.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to O'Donnell looking to come back to daytime TV] Reference