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idolater|aɪˈdɒlətə(r)|
Forms: α. 4 ydolatrour, 4–6 ydolatrer, 4–7 idolatrer, (6 ydol-, idolatrar). β. 6 ydolatre, -ater, -atour, idoloter, 7– idolator, 6– idolater.
[Gr. εἰδωλο-λάτρης (N.T.), idol-worshipper, gave eccl. L. (Tertullian) īdōlolatrēs, later -latra (see idololater), shortened in Romanic to idola′tra (Sp., Pg. idola′tra, It. idola′tro), OF. idolatre, ydolatre, whence (by confusion with the suffix -astre, -âtre) idolastre, idolâtre (see idolaster). Our α form idolatrer, -rour, was either f. OF. idolatre + agent-suffix -er, -our, or was a native formation from idolatr-y (cf. astronom-y, -er, etc.) with same suffix; the β form idolater, -our, was either a phonetic simplification of idolatrer, -our, or ad. F. idolatre, idolâtre.]
1. A worshipper of idols or images; one who pays divine honours to an image or representation of a god, or to any natural object as a deity.
αc1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 88 Þes wickid ydolatrours. 1382― 1 Cor. x. 7 Neithir be ȝe maad ydolatreris (that is, worschiperis of false mawmetis). c1449Pecock Repr. ii. iii. 153 Vsers of ymagis ben ydolatrers. 1474Caxton Chesse 63 They forgid ydolles and were ydolatreres. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 194 Brought vp in Egipt amonge ydolatrars. 1557N. T. (Genev.) Eph. v. 5 No..couetous person, which is an idolatrer. 1574N. Daniel in Grosart Spenser's Wks. I. 422 We lose the love of Idolatrars. 1624Donne Devotions Expostul. xx. (ed. 2) 492 The present execution of manifest Idolatrers.
β1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 3 But takyng & gyuynge it to stockes and stones, as ydolatres, worshyppynge them for goddes. 1529More Suppl. Soulys Wks. 315/1 Idolaters, Turkes, Saracens, and Painims. c1540Pilgr. T. 336 in Thynne's Animadv. (1875) App. i. 86 We be called fornicators when tyme we be ydolotors, & take antychrist for our hed. 1562Winȝet Cert. Tractates i. Wks. 1888 I. 9 Ignorantis off God and ydolatouris. 1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. i. 3 The Chaldeans, the great Idolaters of fire. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. iii. 38 If these Indian Women be Idolators, they go bare-faced; and if Mahometans, they are Vailed. 1710Norris Chr. Prud. iii. 123 We call them idolaters..who pay that Religious Worship which is due only to God, to something else that is not God. 1841Kitto Bible Hist. Palestine 222 Many superstitions..of the ancient idolaters. 1852Robertson Lect. Ep. Cor. xlvii. (1859) 430 The idolater is not merely he who worships images, but he who gives his heart to something which is less than God.
2. An adorer, idolizer, devoted admirer of (some person or thing).
c1566J. Alday tr. Boaystuau's Theat. World O ij b, Old covetous men, ydolaters of their treasures. 1652Sir C. Cotterell Cassandra vi. (1676) 343 He was a Lover, or rather an Idolater of that sex. 1660Willsford Scales Comm. Pref. A v, The Parasites of the Rich, or the Idolaters of Fortune. 1781Cowper Retirem. 220 The lover too..Tender idolater of absent charms. 1884Swinburne in 19th Cent. Oct. 554 Had not the idolators of either [author] insisted..on the superior claims of their respective favorite. |