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Definition of Idolatrous

Idolatrous
Idolatrous I*dol"a*trous, a. 1. Of or pertaining to idolatry; partaking of the nature of idolatry; given to idolatry or the worship of false gods; as, idolatrous sacrifices. [Josiah] put down the idolatrous priests. --2 Kings xxiii. 5. 2. Consisting in, or partaking of, an excessive attachment or reverence; as, an idolatrous veneration for antiquity.

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- and consider Christianity to be based on Jewish belief and not truly idolatrous. In Islamic sources, the concept of shirk (triliteral root: sh-r-k) can...
- the saints until his reading of the Bible convinced him that this was idolatrous. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church: "Prayer is the raising...
- Buddhas of Bamiyan were destro**** by the Taliban, who regarded them as idolatrous. As there was no colonialism in the modern era in Afghanistan, European-style...
- ultra-conservative religious bureaucrats declared the sculpture to be idolatrous. The predecessor of the Tugu Negara is an interwar-era cenotaph originally...
- cautionary tale, to "warn successive generations of Jews to watch their own idolatrous behavior". Chasam Sofer emphasizes that this war was not fought at Moses'...
- becomes identified with the deeper reality to which it refers, it becomes idolatrous as the "symbol is taken for reality." The symbol itself is substituted...
- and denounce certain practices of the Roman Church as superstitious and idolatrous) and to receive the Eucharist under the au****es of the Church of England...
- exposes the ****ility of praying for the dead, and the sinfulness of the idolatrous practices then supported by the Roman see. Such are the sentiments found...
- reign of King Leo the Magnificent (r. 1187–1219), after coins naming idolatrous kings were found stamped with the script. The evidence that the Armenian...
- city of Jerusalem, who united with pagan nations of the world in their idolatrous practices and parti****ted in ****cuting the faithful Old Covenant priests...