idolatrizev.
/ʌɪˈdɒlətrʌɪz/ a. intransitive. To worship an idol or idols; to commit or practise idolatry. Also, to idolatrize it. Obsolete.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > practice paganism [verb (intransitive)]
idolatrize1592
gentilize1593
idolizea1627
paganize1640
ethnicize1665
heathenize1681
infidelize1876
1592 S. Daniel Complaint Rosamond xxii All that honour thee Idolatrize.
1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. B7v Cease (fondlings) henceforth to idolatrize With Venus, your Carpathean-sea-borne Queene.
1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. i. 2 The Persians did idolatrise Vnto the Sunne.
1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer vii. 1321 With worldly Honor, some idolatrize.
1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 134 Hast thou not idolatrized to thy friend?
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 283 A Christian City or Polity Idolatrizing and debauching others with Idolatry.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Idolatrize, to commit Idolatry.
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1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 143 Ore my heart your eyes do idolatrize.
2. transitive. To make an idol of, to worship idolatrously. Chiefly in figurative use: To adore, to admire excessively; to idolize.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > practise paganism [verb (transitive)]
idolatrize1615
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > revere [verb (transitive)] > greatly or immoderately
worshipc1450
to worship the ground (a person) walks (also treads) onc1525
deify1590
idolize1605
idolatrize1615
reverence1748
pedestal1802
to put (also place, etc.) on a pedestal1811
1615 S. Daniel Hymens Triumph ii. i Idolatrize not so that Sex.
1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xix. 152 It hath brought him to idolatrize himselfe.
1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iii. ii. 16 The consecrated hoste which Papists Idolatrize.
1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen 9–10 Idolatrising the Creatures, the moral Powers..being erased [etc.].
1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 28 244 An age which..idolatrizes the tangible and the material.
1894 Grosart in Green Pastures Introd. 10 We are so used to idolatrize Shakespeare because of his simply incomparable genius.
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1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 628 Christianity..was thereby it self Paganized and Idolatrized.
Derivatives
iˈdolatrizing n. and adj.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [adjective]
heathenishc893
heathen971
misbelievedc1225
Barbarya1300
payenc1300
miscreantc1330
paynimc1330
uncircumcideda1382
uncircumciseda1400
gentilec1400
heathenly1415
paganismc1425
profanec1450
pagan1464
ethnical?a1475
payemec1480
miscredentc1500
heathenish1535
whorish1535
ethnic1542
ethnish1542
idolous1546
mammetrous1546
gentilish1550
idolatrous?1550
idololatrical1550
infidel1551
idolatrical1556
gentilical1573
paganical?1573
idolish1577
heatheny1580
irreligious1585
paganish1589
gentilic1603
idolaster1608
gentilitious1613
heathenous1613
idolatrizing1614
image-worshipping1621
misreligious1623
Mahounda1625
gentilizing1637
idololatrousa1641
infidelious1648
Baalitical1652
national1661
idolatric1669
paganic1676
gentilized1684
Baalish1690
idololatrica1711
infidelical1802
semi-fidel1834
Greekish1851
paganistic1853
unselect1882
goyish1888
1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket i. 2 Erring, adulterating, idolatrising Solomon.
a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. vi. §2. 41 For, how should..idolatrizing, be sinne; if there were not a God?
1845 G. S. Faber Eight Diss. I. iv. iii. 301 Balaam..a seer of the idolatrising Gentiles.
iˈdolatrizer n. one who idolatrizes: an idolizer or idolater.
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1642 A. Prowse Let. to Friend in London 3 That minor part so much cryed up, and doted on by the Idolatrizers thereof.
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