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idolatrize, v.|aɪˈdɒlətraɪz|
[f. idolatr-y + -ize; cf. botanize, rhapsodize, scrutinize.]
†1. intr. To worship an idol or idols; to commit or practise idolatry. Also, to idolatrize it. Obs.
1592Daniel Compl. Rosamond xxii, All that honour thee Idolatrize. 1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 26 Cease (fondlings) henceforth to idolatrize With Venus, your Carpathean-sea borne Queene. 1613–16W. Browne Brit. Past. i. i, The Persians did idolatrise Unto the Sunne. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. vii. 1321 With worldly Honor, some idolatrize. 1640Fuller Joseph's Coat iv. (1867) 142 Hast thou not idolatrized to thy friend? 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 283 A Christian City or Polity Idolatrizing and debauching others with Idolatry. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Idolatrize, to commit Idolatry.
†b. ? To exercise an incitement to idolatry.
1601Chester Love's Mart. 143 Ore my heart your eyes do idolatrize.
2. trans. To make an idol of, to worship idolatrously. Chiefly in fig. use: To adore, to admire excessively; to idolize.
1615Daniel Hymen's Tri. ii. i, Idolatrize not so that Sex. 1631R. Brathwait Whimzies, Traveller 93 It hath brought him to idolatrize himselfe. 1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. iii. ii. 16 The consecrated hoste which Papists Idolatrize. 1740Cheyne Regimen 9–10 Idolatrising the Creatures, the moral Powers..being erased [etc.]. 1830Blackw. Mag. XXVIII. 244 An age which..idolatrizes the tangible and the material. 1894Grosart in Green Pastures Introd. 10 We are so used to idolatrize Shakespeare because of his simply incomparable genius.
†3. To render idolatrous. Obs. rare.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §36. 628 Christianity..was thereby itself paganized and idolatrized.
Hence iˈdolatrizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; iˈdolatrizer, one who idolatrizes: an idolizer or idolater.
1614T. Adams Devil's Banquet 2 Erring, adulterating, idolatrising Solomon. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. vi. §2 (1622) 41 For, how should..idolatrizing, be sinne; if there were not a God? 1642A. Prowse Let. to Friend in Lond. 3 That minor part so much cryed up, and doted on by the Idolatrizers thereof. 1817G. S. Faber Eight Dissert. iv. iii. (1845) I. 301 Balaam..a seer of the idolatrising Gentiles. |