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idolatrous, a.|aɪˈdɒlətrəs|
[f. idolater, F. idolâtre + -ous.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of idolatry.
1550Bale Apol. 55 Your papa..whyche appoynted them to hys ydolatrouse dayes of ydelnesse. 1592Greene Groat's W. Wit (1617) 37 Were it not an idolatrous oath, I would sweare by sweet S. George. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. ii. vii. §10 The Idolatrous customs of those Nations. 1765T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. I. iv. 428 The exception to the word Sunday was founded upon its superstitious idolotrous origin. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. I. 443 Their religion, however, though idolatrous, has no resemblance whatever to that of the Hindús. 1863W. Phillips Speeches iii. 46 Idolatrous veneration for the state.
2. Used in or devoted to idol-worship. ? Obs.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 98 Because of the judgements for the idolatrous high places in it. 1647Fuller Good Th. in Worse T. (1841) 103 He saw an idolatrous altar at Damascus. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 555 The idolatrous temple of Jaganaut. 1800Asiat. Ann. Reg., Misc. Tr. 232/1 The road extends through innumerable towns, with idolatrous temples.
3. Of a person: Worshipping images or idols; given to the worship of idols or false gods.
1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 9 So as whole Realmes which were Idolatrous, are now obedient to the Apostolique Sea. 1611Bible 2 Kings xxiii. 5 Hee put downe the idolatrous priests whome the kings of Iudah had ordeined to burne incense. 1671Milton Samson 1364 The Philistines Idolatrous, uncircumcised, unclean. 1790Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) V. 189 Zangwebar, the coast of the Zenghis, was still savage and idolatrous. 1822Shelley Chas. I, i. 85 To that idolatrous and adulterous torturer.
†b. Constr. of. Obs. rare.
1639T. Brugis tr. Camus' Mor. Relat. 295 [He] Makes her a Countesse, and withall becomes so idolatrous of her, that [etc.].
Hence iˈdolatrousness, the quality or condition of being idolatrous.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. xxxii. 189 The parties..that turne away from this lawe through their idolatrousnesse. 1633Ames Agst. Cerem. ii. 487 The formalities of that Altar, conteyning all the idolatrousnesse that was in it. 1764Harmer Observ. xxi. vi. 276 How came this notion of the idolatrousness of Nebuchadnezzar's command to be so universal? |