单词 | fire-worship |
释义 | fire-worshipn. The worship or veneration of fire. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of fire pyrolatry1662 fire-worship1669 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I ii. ix. 144 Their Pyrolatrie, or fire-worship, which they learnt from the Chaldeans. a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 73 As to this Fire-worship, which..prevail'd over all the world, the Celtic nations kindl'd other fires on Midsummer eve. 1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 210 Here was the source of fire-worship. 1839 T. Moore Hist. Irel. I. ii. 26 The Pyrolatry, or Fire-worship, of the early Irish. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture II. 254 The fire-worship of Assyria, Chaldea, Phœnicia. 1902 Menorah July 17 There is hardly a religion known in which traces of fire-worship may not be found. 1951 PMLA 66 645 The following passage..also contains the familiar association of Zoroastrian fire-worship. 2012 Times (Nexis) 9 June The sheer paganism of the Olympics, the fire-worship. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1669 |
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