Crossword clues for idolater
idolater
- Admirer of procrastinator's mantra?
- Pagan one at some future point hosting party
- Image worshipper
- Hectored wife and mother shoved into rotten chore
- Devotee I get on with in time
- Deal tiro organised for worshipper of false god
- Admirer of one-day international on the up? Dead right
- Violator of a certain Commandment
- Second Commandment violator
- Commandment violator
- Certain commandment violator
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Idolater \I*dol"a*ter\, n. [F. idol[^a]tre: cf. L. idololatres, Gr. ?. See Idolatry.]
A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan.
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An adorer; a great admirer.
Jonson was an idolater of the ancients.
--Bp. Hurd.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., ydolatrer "idol-worshipper," from Old French idolatre, contracted from Late Latin idololatres, from Ecclesiastical Greek eidololatres "idol-worshipper" (see idolatry).
Wiktionary
n. One who worships idols; (context historical English) a pagan.
WordNet
n. a person who worships idols [syn: idolizer, idoliser, idol worshiper]
Usage examples of "idolater".
Plato, though he was but an idolater, has testified to the real existence of ideas.
Paphnutius, considering Cotta as nothing but an idolater, did not deign to reply.
No doubt they represent the terrestrial life of the idolater whose body rests here, under my feet, at the bottom of a well, in a coffin of black basalt.
They are willing to slay the infidel and to circumcise the idolater, but they are backward in prayer and fasting, and in alms-giving less eager than these stones.
The popular modes of religion, that propose any visible and material objects of worship, have the advantage of adapting and familiarizing themselves to the senses of mankind: but this advantage is counterbalanced by the various and inevitable accidents to which the faith of the idolater is exposed.
Spanish tongue, of which she wishes to remain the idolater all her life, she loves to speak that tongue with me, catching me up when I go wrong either in the pronunciation or the grammar, as she desires to be corrected herself when she commits some offence against our French.
Man is essentially an idolater,--that is, in bondage to his imagination,-- for there is no more harm in the Greek word eidolon than in the Latin word imago.
Moabite, an abomination of Moab, a wash-pot, an unclean thing, an uncircumcised Moabite, an idolater, and a whore of Babylon, sir.
Prophet Mohammed had been, but Mohammed, blessings and peace be upon him, had been the most honorable of men, and had fought a good and honorable fight against pagan idolaters, while his own effort was mainly within the community of Faithful.
He walked day and night until he reached the ruins of the temple, formerly built by the idolaters, in which he had slept amongst the scorpions and sirens on his former strange journey.
The shadows shrilled back with fifty voices that there would presently be no Hindu idolaters in Moplah country and the Rajput prisoners replied in kind.
This rhapsody or ecstasy is all that these idolaters of reason will concede.
To suppress the idolaters, reunite the schismatics, and confute the unbelievers, by the infallible decision of a general council, the pious Artaxerxes summoned the Magi from all parts of his dominions.
The ecclesiastical writers of the fourth or fifth centuries ascribed to the magistrates of Rome the same degree of implacable and unrelenting zeal which filled their own breasts against the heretics or the idolaters of their own times.
Sometimes they rudely disturbed the festivals, and profaned the temples of Paganism, with the design of exciting the most zealous of the idolaters to revenge the insulted honor of their gods.