† lordolatryn.
Obsolete.
Worship of a lord or lords.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > [noun] > excessive devotion to famous person > of specific people
lordolatry1846
nigger-worship1855
1846 W. M. Thackeray in Punch 10 125/1 The extent and prevalence of Lord-olatry in this country.
1881 R. F. Burton in Academy 1 Oct. 258/3 England, with her peculiar ‘lordolatry’, thinks it enough to send a peer when other nations send an explorer.
1904 W. F. H. King Classical & Foreign Quotations (ed. 3) Pref. p. vii When the late William Lewis Hertslet complained of the excessive ‘lordolatry’ of the thing, I had nothing to reply.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1846- taste to
- taste, tactile or touch corpuscles
- taste-area
- taste-beaker
- taste-blind
- taste-blindness
- taste-bud
- taste-bulb
- taste-cell
- taste-centre
- taste-corpuscle
- taste-cup
- taste-fibre
- taste-goblet
- taste-hair
- taste-leader
- taste-maker
- taste-meter
- taste-organ
- taste-paper
- taste-pit
- taste-pleasing
- taste-test
- taste-tested
- taste-tester