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demonolatry|diːməˈnɒlətrɪ|
[f. Gr. type *δαιµονο-λάτρεια (see -latry): in mod.F. démonolâtrie (Littré).]
Demon-worship.
1668M. Casaubon Credulity 38 (T.), Nicholaus Remigius..in his books of demonolatrie, doth profess [etc.]. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 593 Creature-worship, now vulgarly called idolatry—that is, for their cosmo-latry, astro-latry, and demono-latry. 1850Robertson Serm. Ser. ii. ii. (1864) 24 Somewhat like what we might now call demonolatry. 1879M. D. Conway Demonol. I. ii. xi. 258 The number seven holds an equally high degree of potency in Singhalese demonolatry.
So demoˈnolater, a demon-worshipper; demonolaˈtriacal a., -ˈlatric a., demoˈnolatrous a., of, pertaining to, or of the nature of demon-worship; demoˈnolatrously adv.
1816G. S. Faber Orig. Pagan Idol. I. 394 A religion..so far as its demonolatriacal part is concerned. Ibid. III. 290 The first authors of the great demonolatric apostasy. 1833― Recapit. Apostasy 106 The later or demonolatrously Christian Roman Empire. 1846― Lett. Tractar. Secess. Popery 240 The predicted Demonolatrous Apostasy. 1875E. White Life in Christ iv. xxvi. (1878) 434 Jerome and Augustine, those intolerant doctors of the demonolatrous ‘apostasy’, as Mr. Isaac Taylor has truly described them. 1876Bp. Caldwell in Contemp. Rev. Feb. 370 Certain demonolators in the present day..display as plain signs of demoniacal possession as ever were displayed eighteen hundred years ago. |