Definition of Polytheistic

1. Adjective. Worshipping or believing in more than one god.

Antonyms: Monotheistic
Derivative terms: Polytheism

Definition of Polytheistic

1. a. Of or pertaining to polytheism; characterized by polytheism; professing or advocating polytheism; as, polytheistic worship; a polytheistic author, or nation.

Definition of Polytheistic

1. Adjective. of or relating to polytheism ¹

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Definition of Polytheistic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Polytheistic

polytenisation
polytenization
polyteny
polyterpene
polyterpenes
polyterpenoid
polyterpenoids
polytetrafluoroethylene
polytetrafluoroethylenes
polytetrahydrofuran
polythalamia
polythalamous
polytheism
polytheisms
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polythelia
polythelism
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polytherapy
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Literary usage of Polytheistic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Christianity by Henry Hart Milman (1840)
"Christianity began to approach to a polytheistic form, or at least to permit, what it is difficult to call by any other name than polytheistic, ..."

2. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau (1875)
"In a more special and direct way we can see how the polytheistic system aided, in the midst of its fictions and inspirations, the development of a certain ..."

3. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1876)
"The Concrete nature of Polytheistic idealisation directly facilitated the thorough combination of these two spontaneous institutions. ..."

4. Pagan Christs: Studies in Comparative Hierology by John Mackinnon Robertson (1903)
"And to this they may have been in a measure helped by the higher ethical teachings current among their polytheistic conquerors and neighbours. §4. ..."

5. Herodotus: the fourth, fifth, and sixth books by Herodotus, Reginald Walter Macan (1895)
"In speeches, the polytheistic formulae might be regarded as dramatically appropriate: eg вешу та 10л ..."

6. Manual of Natural Theology by George Park Fisher (1893)
"Thus we see that the polytheistic religions were not in error in ... polytheistic spontaneous feelings of mankind in this particular have been in accord ..."

7. Agnosticism by Robert Flint (1903)
"The polytheistic religions themselves, viewed as a whole, testify to the power ... Even a polytheistic religion or polytheistic conception of God is better ..."

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