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idolist|ˈaɪdəlɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
A believer in or worshipper of idols; an idolater. Also attrib.
1614Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue ii. 498 You shall..make ruddy Mocmur's Floud, With Idolist Assyrian Armies bloud. 1624F. White Repl. Fisher 230 This Idolist heapeth conclusion vpon conclusion. 1671Milton Samson 453, I..to God have brought Dishonour, obloquy, and op't the mouths Of Idolists, and Atheists. 1818J. Brown Psyche vii. 217 Idolists fall prostrate, scar'd At the rude gods, themselves prepar'd.
Hence idoˈlistic a., recognizing idols, idolatrous.
1846Sara Coleridge in Mem. & Lett. II. 92 The fault is not in the poet but in the gross idolistic system to which he adhered. |