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Definition of Fire-worship
1. Noun. The worship of fire.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire-worship
Literary usage of Fire-worship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rambles in Yucatan: Or, Notes of Travel Through the Peninsula, Including a by Benjamin Moore Norman (1843)
"ORIGIN OF fire-worship. FOR many ages the false religions of the East had remained
stationary ; but in this period, ..."
2. Essays and Essay-writing: Based on Atlantic Monthly Models by William Maddux Tanner (1917)
"... FIRE WORSHIP I FIND my prejudice in favor of summer greatly diminished at the
coming of weather sufficiently cold to recommend the kindling of fires in ..."
3. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1903)
"Unfortunately, evidence of the exact meaning of fire-worship among the lower
races is scanty, while the transition from fetishism to polytheism seems a ..."
4. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"... with fire-worship, apart from the abounding obscurity of the transition from
the animistic to the polytheistic stage, arise from (i) the use of fire in ..."
5. Popular Romances of the West of England, Or, The Drolls, Traditions and by Robert Hunt (1865)
"ROMANCES OF FIRE WORSHIP. " An angel who at last in sight Of both my parents all
in flames ascended From off the altar, where an offering burn'd, ..."
6. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The main difficulties in dealing with fire-worship, apart from the abounding
obscurity of the transition from the animistic to the polytheistic stage, ..."
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