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单词 fire-worship
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fire-worshipn.

Brit. /ˈfʌɪəˌwəːʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈfaɪ(ə)rˌwərʃəp/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fire n., worship n.
Etymology: < fire n. + worship n. Compare earlier pyrolatry n. Compare also earlier fire-worshipper n.
The worship or veneration of fire.
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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).
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