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Definition of Idolist
1. n. A worshiper of idols.
Definition of Idolist
1. Noun. (obsolete) A worshipper of idols. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Idolist
1. someone who worships idols [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idolist
Literary usage of Idolist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"idolist, (i'-do-list) n. 5. A worshipper of To IDOLIZE, (i'-do-lize) vo To worship
idolatrously ; to love or reverence to adoration. ..."
2. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"I have more to forgive, darling, than you; the hardest of all things to forgive
in one whom we idolist—a want of confidence in us. ..."
3. Lexicon to the English Poetical Works of John Milton by Laura Emma Lockwood (1907)
"idolist, sb. worshipper of idols : SA 453. Idol-worship, xb. worship of idols :
PL xii. 115; 8. A. 136.5. *If,conj. (1) on condition that, in case that, ..."
4. Lectures on Art, and Poems by Washington Allston (1850)
"... the world's loud wonder won, With Persian piety, to Reason's sun Profound he
bows, and, idolist of fame, Forgets the God who lighted first the flame. ..."
5. Lectures on Art, and Poems by Washington Allston (1850)
"... at length the world's loud wonder won, Persian piety, to Reason's sun he bows,
and, idolist of fame, '°rgets the God who lighted first the flame. b hh? ..."
6. The philology of the English tongue by John Earle (1880)
"verbs in -ize, from which indeed the noun-form -ism is an outgrowth. 366. And so
is -1st; as atheist, casuist, chemist, dogmatist, egotist, idolist M, ..."
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