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

How do I know he wants to be enthroned and "idolized" in my heart?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phyllis] Reference

"I kind of idolized Mike growing up," says Robert C. "Bob" Gaffaney.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND] Reference

Amazing how your obviously "idolized" pundits are so afraid of 'debate', and only interested in trying to embarrass the President.    From Wordnik.com.  [News & Record Article Feed] Reference

Although Napoleon Bonaparte is still idolized by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference

They dislike the way they're idolized in our culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [She's Got Mail] Reference

Charles Edward, whom the worthy divine almost idolized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference

Later he had a life of Henry Clay, whom he nearly idolized.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

It is little enough to say of her that she idolized Robert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference

And people who are idolized may try harder to please their partners.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To See The Glass Half Full] Reference

Having been idolized did in no way prevent me from, in turn, idolizing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paulina Porizkova: The Responsibility Of Beauty] Reference

I idolized him and the people who walked with him in the civil rights movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roundtable: Location, Location, Location] Reference

An academic who acquires a set of washboard abs, he is idolized by his students.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Heymont: J.C. Lee: A Most Promising Playwright] Reference

Also, different societies at different times have idolized very different female bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Biology of Love—Not] Reference

My father, who idolized the director - my father didn't idolize many people, by the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musician Pays Homage to His Dad, Joel Dorn] Reference

They made her repeat the little prayer said to the Great Spirit by the idolized grandson.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl] Reference

They are urged to be the toughest and are idolized for their combat skills on the field or court.    From Wordnik.com.  [Becky Lee: 21st Century Spartans : Does Violence Beget Violence?] Reference

It was the way the fans took you up, boosted you, idolized you, worshipped you if you really made it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mercenary] Reference

She idolized her son too much to be resigned to living without him; she felt that he was hers no longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Category became as acceptable as the next, and the mercenary a valued, even idolized, member of society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mercenary] Reference

I learned from him that you used to spend a good deal of your time among them, that they idolized you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference

Other artists have idolized and endlessly imitated the reggae king since his death 25 years ago from cancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Explores Early Work of Bob Marley] Reference

Victorian England idolized explorers, and Franklin's disappearance inspired plays, songs and a 12-year search.    From Wordnik.com.  [Failed Search Deepens Mystery of Vanished Explorers] Reference

He also has to learn that people he's idolized are not perfect, are in fact capable of behaving in petty, cruel ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something About Harry] Reference

In short I abhorred her, yet I idolized her; I felt that her love was ruin, but that to live without her was impossible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Kurzweil idolized his father, and became obsessed with developing ways in which his father might be brought back to life.    From Wordnik.com.  [I, Robot] Reference

           We went into a nearby caféand there sat Eugene Forcer, the ex-prison poet who idolized Ezra Pound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 6] Reference

As a teen, he idolized the Beatles, but decided his hero, Lennon had "sold out" - "voices" told him to shoot the musician.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview With The Killer] Reference

If the princess is no longer idolized, Prince Charles has still to win anything close to the kind of popularity she once enjoyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana's Fading Legacy] Reference

Sports-crazy America has always idolized and idealized young men who "play hurt," "give it their all" or "take one for the team.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Leap Of Faith] Reference

I had been the idolized child of affection too long to submit readily and patiently to the privations I was now forced to endure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference

When I was twelve years old my father died, and I was left, with considerable money, in the care of an old nurse who idolized me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference

Sporting figures such as brash Kobe Bryant and even turncoat LeBron James are idolized infinitely more than their Chinese brethren.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Doctoroff: How China Feels About America: Dangerous Love] Reference

I, like a lot of us, idolized Roy, and he was such a - it was the first time I got the chance to hang out with him when we rehearsed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blues and Conversation with Bonnie Raitt] Reference

She has been here two years, and is quite idolized by the miners and trappers, as she has never been known to refuse hospitality to any.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference