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Polytheistic

Polytheistic \Pol`y*the*is"tic\, Polytheistical \Pol`y*the*is"tic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to polytheism; characterized by polytheism; professing or advocating polytheism; as, polytheistic worship; a polytheistic author, or nation. -- Pol`y*the*is"tic*al*ly, adv.

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polytheistic

a. of or relating to polytheism

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polytheistic

adj. worshipping or believing in more than one god [ant: monotheistic]

Usage examples of "polytheistic".

Temple, unlike in the polytheistic religions of the day in which, for example, there could be any number of temples to a god like Zeus.

It simply refers to anyone in the ancient world who subscribed to any of the numerous polytheistic religions of the day.

The word used nowadays to encompass collectively the whole array of gods in a polytheistic system of religious belief.

Nature were once glimpsed in a determinedly polytheistic society, in which some scholars toyed with a form of atheism.

Here there is a close parallel with Greek and other polytheistic religions.

It was clearly a generally polytheistic community but one in which sun-worship predominated.

Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament it is to a mythology with a very different upper story and very different power up there: not a polytheistic pantheon favoring both sides simultaneously, but a single-minded single deity, with his sympathies forever on one side.

Anglican chap in the stained glass and not to some polytheistic thug from Norway.