单词 | ophiolater |
释义 | ophiolatern. A person who worships serpents. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of serpents > practitioner of ophiolater1895 1895 F. T. Elworthy Evil Eye ix. 315 That our Celtic forefathers were Ophiolaters. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Stud. Classic Amer. Lit. 42 He forgets the sweet-and-pureness of Nature, and is for the time a sheer ophiolater. 1944 S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha Rebellion in Backlands i. ii. 119 The Phrygian Montanists, the infamous Adamites, the Ophiolaters, the two-faced Manichaeans..would be looked upon today as repugnant cases of insanity. 1994 UNIX Rev. (Nexis) July 101 [It] is the planetary society's snake-like device they may one day..[use to] tease the alien ophiolaters from their sub-permafrost temples. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1895 |
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