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Definition of Animal-worship
1. Noun. The worship of animals.
Generic synonyms: Worship
Specialized synonyms: Fish-worship, Ichthyolatry, Ophiolatry, Serpent-worship
Lexicographical Neighbors of Animal-worship
Literary usage of Animal-worship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"ANIMAL WORSHIP, a practice found to prevail or to have prevailed in the most
widely distant parts of the world : in India, where it is a consequence of the ..."
2. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"Tree-Worship: Spirits embodied in or inhabiting Trees; Spirits of Groves and
Forests—Animal-Worship: Animals worshipped, directly, or as incarnations or ..."
3. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1889)
"Animal worship has been lifted and combined with sun worship. (">) Mexico furnishes
another stage of animal worship and sun worship combined. ..."
4. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1880)
"ANIMAL WORSHIP AND ANIMAL TRIBES AMONG THE ARABS AND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
THE importance of animal and plant worship for the study of primitive society has ..."
5. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1894)
"... animal worship and sun worship in Egypt, in which he took the ground that the
earliest cult in that country must have been totemism or animal worship. ..."
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