pyrolatryn.

1662 T. Stanley Hist. Chaldaick Philos. ii. 65 Concerning this Pyrolatry of the Chaldæans there is a memorable passage related by Ruffinus.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I ii. ix. 144 Their Pyrolatrie, or fire-worship, which they learnt from the Chaldeans.

1839 T. Moore Hist. Irel. I. ii. 26 The Pyrolatry, or Fire-worship, of the early Irish.

1891 F. M. Müller Physical Relig. 241 Anything like pyrolatry or worship of fire, as a mere element, is foreign to the character of the Greeks.

1922 A. Le Roy Relig. Primitives (1923) vi. 175 If these writers speak to us of phytolatry, litholatry, hydrolatry, pyrolatry, geolatry, astrolatry, and zoolatry, we will understand.

1940 Amer. Anthropologist 42 146 Pyrolatry reached its fullest development among the Creek, Natchez and Taensa.

2005 Amer. Spectator (Nexis) Oct. Six months to the day that the government of Bangladesh banned an Islamic group suspected of pyrolatry, 350 small bombs were detonated across the country within an hour.