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Definition of Ichthyolatry
1. Noun. The worship of fish.
Definition of Ichthyolatry
1. n. Worship of fishes, or of fish-shaped idols.
Definition of Ichthyolatry
1. Noun. The worship of fishes, or of fish-shaped idols. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Ichthyolatry
1. Worship of fishes, or of fish-shaped idols. Origin: Gr, a fish + to worship. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ichthyolatry
Literary usage of Ichthyolatry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1901)
"1 Nor are traces of ichthyolatry wanting at the present day. ... The origin of
ichthyolatry must be sought in a primitive state of totemism. ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"ichthyolatry spread also to In li i (Baur, Mythologie, ii. 51) ; but among the
Philistines the fish-port or godik-ss was a national deity, and had temples ..."
3. Super Flumina: Angling Observations of a Coarse Fisherman by Charles Latimer Marson (1905)
"The Philistines, we know, carried their ichthyolatry beyond all bounds by adoring
Dagon, and thus making the fish the master of the man ; but their very ..."
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