Definition of Idolater. Meaning of Idolater. Synonyms of Idolater

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Definition of Idolater

Idolater
Idolater I*dol"a*ter, n. [F. idol[^a]tre: cf. L. idololatres, Gr. ?. See Idolatry.] 1. A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan. 2. An adorer; a great admirer. Jonson was an idolater of the ancients. --Bp. Hurd.

Meaning of Idolater from wikipedia

- Look up idolator or idolater in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An idolator is a practitioner of idolatry. Idolater or Idolator may also refer to: Os...
- beyond polytheism, and includes some Christians and Jews as muširkūn (idolaters) and kafirun (infidels). For example: Those who say, “Allah is the Messiah...
- Shirk (Arabic: شِرْك, lit. '****ociation') in Islam is a sin often roughly translated as 'idolatry' or 'polytheism', but more accurately meaning '****ociation...
- will keep the status of kosher wine even if subsequently touched by an idolater. While none of the ingredients that make up wine (alcohol, sugars, acidity...
- Sanh. xi. 29b). Talmudic literature represents him as an enthusiastic idolater who left no hilltop in the Land of Israel without an idol before which...
- of Dylan's followers in the folk music scene, the Beatles were seen as idolaters, not idealists." Within six months of the meeting, according to Gould...
- prison officials. They informed the Emperor that Guru Nanak was not an idolater and that as a saint he was greatly respected all the people including Hindus...
- language. Citing Deuteronomy 13, wherein Moses commands the killing of idolaters and the burning of their cities and property as an offering to God, Luther...
- with the items that are forbidden to be sold to idolaters (which is basically any item that the idolater is likely to offer in an idolatrous service or...
- used in Judaism, and to kafir (كافر, 'unbeliever') and mushrik (مشرك, 'idolater') as in Islam. In the Latin-speaking Western Roman Empire of the newly...