Definition of Place-worship

1. Noun. The worship of places.

Exact synonyms: Topolatry
Generic synonyms: Cultism, Devotion, Idolatry, Veneration

Lexicographical Neighbors of Place-worship

placationist
placations
placative
placatively
placatory
placcat
placcate
placcates
placcats
place
place-kick
place-kicker
place-kicking
place-name
place-names
place-worship (current term)
place an order
place bet
place card
place cards
place down
place holder
place in the sun
place kick
place kicks
place mat
place name
place names
place of articulation
place of birth

Literary usage of Place-worship

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1856)
"The abolition of high-place worship is there expressly recorded; and on referring to the parallel account in the Chronicles (2 Chron. xxix. 30; xxx. ..."

2. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1901)
"... and 'burn fat,' as the standing description of the high-place worship, i K. 32_/t 2243 ..."

3. ... Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons by Adolphus Frederick Schauffler (1909)
"All this was destroyed by the noise and confusion, and distractions of the market place. Worship was out of the question; prayer was interrupted. ..."

4. Spiritual Magazine (1876)
"... and in whom no culture whatever, had taken place. Worship had always preceded civilization, and many of the arts owed their existence in early times to ..."

5. The Heavenly Arcana by Emanuel Swedenborg (1896)
"That this signifies that such as place worship solely in externals are among those who may perform vile services to the men of the church, may be evident ..."

6. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1824)
"... the said Commissioners to accept from any Heritor i1 Heritors, in any Parish in which such an additional Place ? Worship shall be erected or provided, ..."

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