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Definition of Tree-worship
1. Noun. The worship of trees.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tree-worship
Literary usage of Tree-worship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"See Trees, Care of Tree worship 366 My '16 Tree« Snake and tree worship in India.
Mis R 39: Artists' trees and garden specimens. S. White. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Tree worship, or anything resembling it, has no place in any branch of ...
This cannot be called tree-worship in the ancient meaning of the term. ..."
3. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1903)
"... Streams, Lakes,**— Tree-Worship: Sprits embodied in or inhabiting Trees;
Spirits of Groves and ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1896)
"Finally, the pillar and tree worship of Mycenaean Greece is seen largely to
survive in the rustic cult of classical Greece at a time when in the more ..."
5. ... The Native Races: Of the Pacific States by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"... TOX— TREE WORSHIP. WE have seen in the preceding volume that the number of
religious edifices was very great ; that in addition to the temples in the ..."
6. The Yellow Book by F. Harrison (1894)
"Tree-Worship By Richard Le Gallienne VAST and mysterious brother, ere was yet of
me So much as men may poise upon a needle's end, Still shook with laughter ..."
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