单词 | zoolatry |
释义 | zoolatryn. The worship of animals. Also hyperbolically: extreme or excessive fondness for animals. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of animals brute-worship1738 zoolatry1784 therolatry1873 theriolatry1897 1784 J. S. Charrier Nugent's New Pocket Dict. Eng. & French (ed. 4) II Zoolatry, zoolatrie. 1845 G. S. Faber Eight Diss. I. iv. i. 285 That the gods of the Gentiles, however connected with Sabianism and Materialism and Zoölatry, were originally..deified mortals. 1858 C. Hardwick Christ & Other Masters iv. i. 56 Conspicuous at the head of the zoolatry of Egypt stands the worship of the great Memphitic bull, Apis. 1896 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 11 Apr. 931/2 We were not aware that she carried her zoolatry to the length of objecting to the dissection of their [sc. animals'] dead bodies. 1907 Q. Rev. July 200 They brought with them a concrete form of zoolatry in the cult of the buffalo. 1935 Times 24 Jan. 8/3 Zoolatry, so common to most boys, is put to its best uses. 2005 New Republic (Nexis) 21 Mar. 25 The zoolatry of the Egyptians unnerved the Greeks, as did the greater antiquity of their culture. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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