Word Meanings - POLYTHEIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To adhere to, advocate, or inculcate, the doctrine of polytheism. Milman.

Related words: (words related to POLYTHEIZE)

• ADVOCATE
  advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
• POLYTHEISM
  The doctrine of, or belief in, a plurality of gods. In the Old Testament, the gradual development of polytheism from the primitive monotheism may be learned. Shaff-Herzog.
• ADHERE
  1. To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura. 2. To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity
• ADHERENTLY
  In an adherent manner.
• ADHERER
  One who adheres; an adherent.
• ADHERENT
  Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals. (more info) 1. Sticking; clinging; adhering. Pope. 2. Attached as an attribute or circumstance.
• ADHERENCY
  1. The state or quality of being adherent; adherence. 2. That which adheres. Dr. H. More.
• INCULCATE
  To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; to urge on the mind; as, Christ inculcates on his followers humility. The most obvious and necessary duties of life they have not yet had authority enough to enforce and inculcate upon
• DOCTRINE
  1. Teaching; instruction. He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. Mark iv. 2. 2. That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or
• ADVOCATESHIP
  Office or duty of an advocate.
• ADHERENCE
  1. The quality or state of adhering. 2. The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions. Syn. -- Adherence, Adhesion. These words, which were once freely interchanged, are now
• SEMIADHERENT
  Adherent part way.
• SUBADVOCATE
  An under or subordinate advocate.
• MONROE DOCTRINE
  See DOCTRINE
• INADHERENT
  Free; not connected with the other organs. (more info) 1. Not adhering.
• ENDOCTRINE
  To teach; to indoctrinate. Donne.