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polytheist, n. (a.)|ˈpɒlɪθiːɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist. Cf. F. polythéiste (1762 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
One who believes in or worships many gods (or more than one); an adherent of polytheism.
a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. vi. §3 (1622) 45 They were of all other the most palpable Polytheists. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) I. 11 To believe no one Supreme designing Principle or Mind, but rather two, three, or more..is to be a Polytheist. 1877Carpenter tr. Tiele's Hist. Relig. 109 The Aryans like the Indo-Germans, were polytheists.
b. attrib. or adj. = next.
1875Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lxxi. (1877) 583 For the first time the two principles of faith, the monotheist and the polytheist, met in combat. |