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Webster 1913 Edition


Idolater

I-dol′a-ter

,
Noun.
[F.
idolâtre
: cf. L.
idololatres
, Gr. [GREEK]. See
Idolatry
.]
1.
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.
2.
An adorer; a great admirer.
Jonson was an
idolater
of the ancients.
Bp. Hurd.

Webster 1828 Edition


Idolater

IDOL'ATER

,
Noun.
[L. idololatra. See Idolatry.]
1.
A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of any thing made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan.
2.
An adorer; a great admirer.

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idolater

idolater

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idolater (plural idolaters) (female idolatress)

  1. One who worships idols; (historical) a pagan.
    I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? — 1 Corinthians 5:9-12 KJV.

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