Word Meanings - IDOLATER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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. 2. An adorer; a great admirer. Jonson was an idolater of the ancients.

Additional info about word: IDOLATER

1. 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. 2. An adorer; a great admirer. Jonson was an idolater of the ancients. Bp. Hurd.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IDOLATER)

• Pagan
• Heathen
• idolater
• Gentile

Related words: (words related to IDOLATER)

• PAGANISH
  Of or pertaining to pagans; heathenish. "The old paganish idolatry." Sharp
• HEATHENISHNESS
  The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne.
• HEATHENRY
  1. The state, quality, or character of the heathen. Your heathenry and your laziness. C. Kingsley. 2. Heathendom; heathen nations.
• HEATHENISM
  1. The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry; paganism. 2. The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism.
• PAGANIC; PAGANICAL
  Of or pertaining to pagans or paganism; heathenish; paganish. "The paganic fables of the goods." Cudworth. -- Pa*gan"ic*al*ly, adv.
• HEATHENISH
  1. Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens. "Worse than heathenish crimes." Milton. 2. Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel. South. 3. Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living.
• PAGAN
  One who worships false goods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew. Neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man. Shak. Syn. -- Gentile; heathen; idolater. -- Pagan,
• HEATHENIZE
  To render heathen or heathenish. Firmin.
• HEATHENISHLY
  In a heathenish manner.
• PAGANITY
  The state of being a pagan; paganism. Cudworth.
• PAGANISM
  The state of being pagan; pagan characteristics; esp., the worship of idols or false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans; heathenism.
• HEATHENDOM
  1. That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen nations, considered collectively. 2. Heathenism. C. Kingsley.
• PAGANLY
  In a pagan manner. Dr. H. More.
• GENTILESSE
  Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility. Chaucer.
• HEATHENNESS
  State of being heathen or like the heathen.
• PAGANIZE
  To render pagan or heathenish; to convert to paganism. Hallywell.
• HEATHEN
  hethen, AS. h, prop. an adj. fr. h heath, and orig., therefore, one who lives in the country or on the heaths and in the woods (cf. pagan, fr. pagus village); akin to OS. h, adj., D. heiden a heathen, G. heide, OHG. heidan, Icel. hei, adj., Sw.
• GENTILE-FALCON
  See FALCON-GENTIL
• PAGANDOM
  The pagan lands; pagans, collectively; paganism.
• IDOLATER
  1. 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. 2. An adorer; a great admirer. Jonson was an idolater of the ancients.
• NEOPAGANISM
  Revived or new paganism.
• PROPAGANDA
  A congregation of cardinals, established in 1622, charged with the management of missions. The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban VIII. (1623- 1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world. 2. Hence, any organization
• REPAGANIZE
  To paganize anew; to bring back to paganism.
• SEMIPAGAN
  Half pagan.
• UNPAGANIZE
  To cause to cease to be pagan; to divest of pagan character. Cudworth.