单词 | zoolater |
释义 | zoolatern. A person who worships animals. Also hyperbolically: a person who is extremely or excessively fond of animals. Cf. zoolatry n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of animals > practitioner of zoolater1876 1876 F. E. A. Gasc Dict. Fr. & Eng. Lang. 580/2 Zoolâtre, zoolater, zoolatress. 1880 Nature 30 Sept. 517/2 Enthusiastic zoölaters, who desire to abolish the objective method of teaching physiology. 1886 Amer. Naturalist Oct. 850 The Navajos then are zoölaters; that is..they worship the lower animals. 1914 Unpop. Rev. Oct. 344 Everyone except an occasional zoölater grants that the world is not large enough now both for them [sc. foxes and rabbits] and for us. 1987 F. Schmidt Inconceivable Polytheism 13 The Egyptians remained the zoolaters par excellence. 1994 S. N. Balagangadhara Heathen in Blindness 111 The stock of concepts that the Europeans used to understand the other was pathetically poor: ‘heathens’ or..‘zoolaters’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1876 |
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