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Definition of Idolater
1. Noun. A person who worships idols.
Generic synonyms: Gentile, Heathen, Infidel, Pagan
Specialized synonyms: Idolatress
Derivative terms: Idolatry
Definition of Idolater
1. n. 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.
Definition of Idolater
1. Noun. One who worships idols; (historical) a pagan. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Idolater
1. one that worships idols [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idolater
Literary usage of Idolater
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1824)
"IDOL idolater IDOLATRY. Lucretius had partly felt these difficulties, ...
This word, idolater, idolatry, is found neither in Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, ..."
2. Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians: And Homilies on the Epistle to by John Chrysostom, William John Copeland (1840)
"For this ye know, that no whoremonger, Y. 5, 6. nor unclean person, nor covetous
man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... to the senses of mankind ; but this advantage is counterbalanced by the various
and inevitable accidents to which the faith of the idolater is exposed. ..."
4. London Encyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"Hence, the word for villager or peasant was associated in the minds of the
Christians, ie the town's people, with the idea of idolater or worshipper of ..."
5. The Real Shelley: New Views of the Poet's Life by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1885)
"... Rooms—Shelley's Looks and Voice—Patron and idolater—The Ways of Passing
Time—Hogg's Reminiscences—Nocturnal Readings and Conversations—Country about ..."
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