1544 J. Bale Brefe Chron. Syr I. Oldecastell f. 12^v He was farre otherwyse in beleue of the sacrament of the aultre, of penaunce, of pylgrymage, of ymage worshyppynge, and of the ecclesyastycall power, than the holye churche of Rome had taught manye years afore.

1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 69 By applying that, to Imageworshipping, which made nothing at all to purpose.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. v. 212 Idolatry, is Image Worshiping, or the adoring of any Creature above the Creator.

1754 R. Watts Quaker's Let. Persecuting Priest 24 Every reasonable man may see that persecution, and man's invention of image worshiping, are both sins of blasphemy against heaven.

1825 J. Platts New Universal Biogr. II. xxiii. 501 One of his first acts was to recall a number of bishops, who had been banished by the late emperor for image worshipping.

2001 D. Loewenstein Representing Revol. in Milton & his Contemp. ii. vii. 210 The militant, antimonarchical Puritan..whose resistance to his king has been stiffened by godly zeal and his abhorrence of image-worshipping.

1621 R. Crakanthorpe Def. Constantine i. vi. 118 Cast out of the Idolatrous and Image-worshipping Church heere vpon earth.

1863 J. W. Draper Hist. Intellect. Devel. Europe xiv. 312 A devotion for poetry, exemplified by branding some of his own stanzas on his image-worshipping enemies.

1936 Harvard Theol. Rev. 29 272 The idea that the image-worshipping subjects of the Emperor might have been allowed to establish themselves in his Italian dominions lacks the support of evidence and of probability.

1977 S. Runciman Byzantine Theocracy iii. 71 He transferred large colonies of iconoclastic Asiatics into districts in Thrace that had been wholly image-worshipping.

1996 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 4 Oct. 9 b Schools became ‘secular’ because people got tired of having their children exposed to the self-righteous rants of image-worshipping omen-seekers.