Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The worship of images; as a term of reproach, the worship of idols; idolatry.
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Examples
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In the eighth century this abuse had arrived at such a pitch that Constantine Copronymus assembled, at Constantinople, a council of three hundred and twenty bishops, who anathematized image-worship, and declared it to be idolatry.
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And the peculiar idolatry of Rome consists in image-worship, -- the worshipping of saints departed; which is a great part of their idolatry.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Rome, as something of the same nature, in general, was of all the image-worship in the world.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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The idolatry that there began consisted in image-worship, in the worshipping of graven images; which was their idolatry that they set up with respect unto men departed, whom they worshipped by them.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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In spite of all that Romanists, and others of a similar cult, may say, the _worship_ of an image or of a statue, means the worship of the person imaged or sculptured -- this is the very essence of all image-worship.
The Mark of the Beast Sidney Watson
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He had, apparently, never seen the ten commandments before, and was very much surprised to find image-worship so expressly condemned in them.
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The Indians gave up their old idols, but they went on with their image-worship.
Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray
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I have now given you a specimen of the image-worship of the Hindoos; and how different is it from the worship which the Bible enjoins.
Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. Dr. John Scudder
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He had not completed the Psalmist's terrific denunciation of the crime and folly of image-worship when his voice was stifled by the fire and smoke of the pyre into which his impatient tormentors had hastily thrown him.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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The condemnation which later writers, particularly those imbued with the spirit of the Deuteronomic reformation, pass upon all image-worship, is in harmony with the judgment upon Jeroboam for his innovations at Bethel and Dan (1 Kings xii. 28 sqq., xvi. 26, &c.).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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