单词 | idolatry |
释义 | idolatryn. 1. a. The worship of idols or images ‘made with hands’; more generally, the paying or offering of divine honours to any created object. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [noun] heathenessec900 heathenshipa1000 heathendomc1000 idolatrya1325 mammetryc1330 spiritual fornicationa1340 whoredomc1350 prepucya1382 miscreancea1393 imagery1395 gentility?a1425 paganismc1425 paganityc1450 prepucec1475 Mahometry1481 superstitiousness1526 uncircumcision1526 whoring1530 idolry1535 paynimhood1543 image-worshipping1544 paganrya1550 idololatry1550 gentilism1561 old religion1567 heathenishness1571 image worship1572 heathenry1577 irreligiousness?1577 idolatrousness1583 uncircumcisedness1583 irreligion1598 ethnicism1600 infidelity1603 superstition1603 heathenism1605 idolism1608 miscreancy1611 misreligion1623 Baalisma1625 iconolatry1624 idolomania1624 idolomany1624 idolizing1637 idol-worship1667 ethnicity1772 symbololatry1828 Baal-worship1834 irreligionism1843 gentiledom1844 triology1894 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 4143 Ydolatrie, ðat was hem lef, Ofte vt-wrogte hem sorges dref. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xvii. 16 Seynge the citee ȝouun to ydolatrie. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxxxxvii. f. xxxviii He had forsaken his Idolatry, and was becomyn seruaunt of the oonly God. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Pet. iv. 3 We have spent the tyme..in eatynge, drynkynge and in abhominable ydolatrie [1611 idolatries]. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xxviii. 340 This we believe is plain Idolatry, when an Insensible piece of Matter, such as Bread and Wine, has Divine Honors paid it. 1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 166 The gross idolatry blind heathens teach. 1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire i. 9 [The cathedrals] those huge temples of Catholic idolatry. 1864 J. H. Newman Apologia 413 In the midst of the abominable idolatries and impurities of that fearful time, they could not do otherwise. ΚΠ 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 417 To worship Calves, the Deities Of Egypt..And all the Idolatries of Heathen round. View more context for this quotation 2. Immoderate attachment to or veneration for any person or thing; admiration savouring of adoration. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > [noun] > immoderate reverence idolatryc1386 mammetrya1400 worshipa1616 idolizing1637 idolism1816 idolization1853 c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋674 Therfore seith seint Paul ad Ephesios 5° that an Auaricious man is the thraldom of ydolatrie [v.r. is thral to ydolatrie]. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Bviv They make all that loueth them inordinatly to commytte ydolatry. 1557 Bible (Whittingham) Coloss. iii. 5 Couetousnes which is idolatrie. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 92 [They] caused that place [where a popular man was executed] to be watched, that such Idolatrie should there no more be vsed. 1639 T. B. tr. J.-P. Camus Certain Moral Relations in S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 335 Those tearmes of Idolatrie which grow in the mouthes of lovers. 1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 461 Thou god of our idolatry, the Press. 1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers I. ii. i. 162 He usually falls at last into the popular idolatry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1325 |
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