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Definition of Astrolatry
1. Noun. The worship of planets or stars.
Definition of Astrolatry
1. n. The worship of the stars.
Definition of Astrolatry
1. Noun. The worship of the stars. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Astrolatry
Literary usage of Astrolatry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"This astrolatry is the introduction to polytheism ; and it has qualities which
instigate the development of a genuine priesthood. ..."
2. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1917)
"The reason of early Christian and later Roman Catholic astrolatry, or the symbolical
worship of Sun and Moon — identical with that of the Gnostics, ..."
3. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1877)
"The first naturally was in the ascendant during the nomad period; that of the
sun during astrolatry, properly so called, at which time the priesthood made a ..."
4. The Origin and Development of Religious Belief by Sabine Baring-Gould (1892)
"... Brute worship—Personification of phenomena—The Greek the typical polytheist—The
names of the sun become distinct solar deities— Moral deities—astrolatry ..."
5. The Progress of the Intellect: As Exemplified in the Religious Development by Robert William Mackay (1850)
"TRACES OF HEBREW astrolatry. The Jews continue to preserve in their traditions
obscure memorials of an astral worship as having preceded the religion of ..."
6. The Progress of the Intellect: As Exemplified in the Religious Development by Robert William Mackay (1850)
"TRACES OF HEBREW astrolatry. The Jews continue to preserve in their traditions
obscure memorials of an astral worship as having preceded the religion of ..."
7. The Gentile and the Jew in the Courts of the Temple of Christ: An by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger (1906)
"In other respects the cultus of the Chaldeans was predominantly one of astrolatry.
The Belus temple served them as an observatory. They had shaped astronomy ..."
8. An Inquiry Into the Theories of History with Special Reference to the by William Adam (1862)
"astrolatry or the worship of the heavenly bodies is the transitional phase of
the theological state between fetichism and polytheism, partaking in ..."
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