| 单词 |
hagiolatry |
| 释义 |
hagiolatry|hægɪˈɒlətrɪ| [f. Gr. ἅγιος holy + λατρεία worship.] The worship of saints.
1808W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXVI. 207 Reducing the established hagiolatry to that posthumous veneration for the benefactors of the human race, which is the natural religion of every grateful heart. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) II. iv. vii. 348 The error was in the hagiolatry or adoration of saints, not in the adoration of the image. Hence hagiˈolater, one who worships saints. hagiˈolatrous a., given to saint-worship.
1841G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) I. 10 That Hagiolatrous Superstition which he deems the Essence of the predicted Apostasy. 1875Miss Cobbe False Beasts 157 As a hagiolater kneels beside the relics of his Saint. |

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