Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Apotheosis

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

APOTHEO'SIS (αποθέωσις). A word borrowed from the Greek language, but only used at a late period (Tertull. Apol. 34.), for which the Latin term is CONSECRATIO, which see.