单词 | idolater |
释义 | idolatern. 1. A worshipper of idols or images; one who pays divine honours to an image or representation of a god, or to any natural object as a deity. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [noun] > person heathenc1000 Saracenc1250 payenc1275 paynimc1300 wanbody1303 payemec1330 idolaterc1380 gentilea1382 idolasterc1386 miscreantc1400 mammeter?a1425 paganc1440 infidel1470 ethnic?a1475 image server1531 serve-image1531 heathenista1556 image-worshipper1563 Kaffir1577 giaour1589 Baalista1603 idolant1605 idolatress1613 idolist1614 idololatera1641 iconolater1654 Baalite1656 iconodulist1716 irreligionista1779 neopagan1868 iconodule1893 witch1958 α. β. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Aiiiiv But takyng & geuyng it to stockes and stones, as ydolaters worshyppyng them for goddes.1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys ii. f. xxiiiv Ydolaters, Turkys, Saracens, and Paynyms.c1540 Pilgrim's Tale 336 in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) App. i. 86 We be called fornicators When tyme we be ydolotors, & take antychrist for our hed.1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 9 Ignorantis off God and ydolatouris.1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall i. 7 The Chaldeans the great Idolaters of fire.1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant iii. 38 If these Indian Women be Idolators, they go bare-faced; and if Mahometans, they are Vailed.1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence iii. 123 We call them idolaters..who pay that Religious Worship which is due only to God, to something else that is not God.1841 Kitto Bible Hist. Palestine 222 Many superstitions..of the ancient idolaters.1852 F. W. Robertson Expos. Lect. Epist. Cor. (1859) xlvii. 430 The idolater is not merely he who worships images, but he who gives his heart to something which is less than God.c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 88 Þes wickid ydolatrours. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. x. 7 Neithir be ȝe maad ydolatreris (that is, worschiperis of false mawmetis). c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 153 Thou maist not seie that hauers and vsers of ymagis ben ydolatrers. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. i. 78 They forgid ydoles & were ydolatrers. a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. Clxxxxiiii Brought vp in Egipt amonge ydolatrars. 1557 Bible (Whittingham) Eph. v. 5 No..couetous person, which is an idolatrer. 1574 N. Daniel in Grosart Spenser's Wks. I. 422 We lose the love of Idolatrars. 1624 J. Donne Deuotions xx. 523 The present execution of manifest Idolatrers. 2. An adorer, idolizer, devoted admirer of (some person or thing). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > [noun] > excessive devotion to famous person > one who idolater?1566 idolizer1660 ?1566 J. Alday tr. P. Boaistuau Theatrum Mundi sig. O ij b Old covetous men, ydolaters of their treasures. 1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra (1676) vi. 343 He was a Lover, or rather an Idolater of that sex. 1660 T. Willsford Scales Commerce & Trade Pref. sig. A v The Parasites of the Rich, or the Idolaters of Fortune. 1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 220 The lover too..Tender idolater of absent charms. 1884 Swinburne in 19th Cent. Oct. 554 Had not the idolators of either [author] insisted..on the superior claims of their respective favorite. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1380 |
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