Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers
Section V. Religious Affections
4. Acts of Religion

991. Idolatry.

   NOUN:IDOLATRY, idolatrousness, idololatry, idolism, idolodoulia, demonism, demonolatry, demonology; idol -, chthonian -, demon -, devil -, fire- worship; zoölatry, fetishism or fetichism; ecclesiolatry, heliolatry, bibliolatry, hierolatry [rare].
  idolization, deification, apotheosis, canonization; hero worship.
  SACRIFICE, idolothyte, hecatomb, holocaust; human sacrifices, immolation, mactation, infanticide, self-immolation, suttee.
  IDOL, golden calf, graven image, fetish or fetich, eidolon, thakur [Hind.], joss [Chinese], lares et penates [L.]; god (or goddess) of one’s idolatry; Baal, Moloch, Dagon, Juggernaut.
  IDOLATER, idolatress, demonolater or demonolator, chthonian, fetishist or fetichist; idolatrizer, idolizer, idolant [obs.], idolaster [obs.]; ecclesiolater, heliolater, zoölater, bibliolater.
   VERB:IDOLATRIZE, idolize; adorer le veau d’or [F.]; worship – idols, – pictures, – relics; apotheosize, worship, put on a pedestal, prostrate oneself before; make sacrifice to, immolate before; deify, canonize.
   ADJECTIVE:IDOLATROUS, idololatric [rare], idolatric [rare], idolistic, chthonian, demonolatrous, fetishic [rare], fetishistic or fetichistic, idolothyte; worshiping or worshipping, prone before, prostrate before, in the dust before, at the feet of; heliolatrous, zoölatrous.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. The idol is the measure of the worshipper.—Lowell
2. He who offers God a second place offers him no place.—Ruskin
3. Condemnable idolatry is insincere idolatry—a human soul clinging spasmodically to an Ark of the Covenant, which it half feels is now a phantasm.—Carlyle