polytheisticadj.

1706 R. Brocklesby Explic. Gospel-theism i. viii. 132/2 Agreeably to their Polytheistic Genius and Principle (that it belongeth to the Magnificence of the first God, to have many Gods dependent upon him) they vastly inhance the Pagan Theism.

1773 E. Burke Speech Comm. in Wks. (1869) VI. 108 Was it ever heard that polytheism tolerated a dissent from a polytheistick establishment?

1842 I. Taylor Anc. Christianity II. 341 In every system of polytheistic worship there has been a localizing of divinities.

1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer vi. 92 Zeus..appears to be..a representative of an old monotheism which merges into supremacy in a polytheistic system.

1913 J. N. Farquhar Crown of Hinduism ii. 104 Debendranath Tagore..rebelled against the polytheistic and idolatrous character of the sacraments..of the Hindu family.

1956 E. Fromm Art of Loving ii. 63 In all theistic religions, whether they are polytheistic or monotheistic, God stands for the highest value.

1983 M. Cook Muhammad i. 5 The oldest societies to have left us written records, and hence direct evidence of their religious beliefs, were polytheistic some five thousand years ago.

2002 N. Drury Dict. Esoteric 67/2 The magical and occult traditions draw on both polytheistic religions (ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Celtic, and Scandinavian) and monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity).