idolatrous
Definition: worshipping excessively an object or person
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The Romany Rye - By George Henry Borrow
...The pale-looking, but exceedingly genteel non-juring clergyman in Waverley was a Laud; but they soon became tired of being Lauds, for Laud 's Church, gew-gawish and idolatrous as it was, was not sufficiently tinselly and idolatrous for them, so they must be Popes, but in a sneaking way, still calling themselves Church-of-England men, in order to batten on the bounty of the Church which they were betraying, and likewise have opportunities of corrupting such lads as might still resort to Oxford with principles uncontaminated ....
A Sketch of the History of the Apostolic Church - By Oliver J. Thatcher
...In the fullest sense of the word, Rome had a state religion, idolatrous practices of which were in the most intricate way woven into the web of everyday life ....
Dracula - By Bram Stoker, Philip M. Parker, Poul Glargaard
...It is odd that a thing which I have been taught to regard with disfavor and as idolatrous should in a time of loneliness and trouble be of help ....
The Last of the Mohicans - By James Fenimore Cooper
...They never join their voices in praise, and it would seem that they are among the profanest of the idolatrous . " "...
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - By Mark Twain, Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress)
...But when the final great note died out and the song was done, they all flung themselves in a body at the singer, stark mad with love of him and love of France and pride in her great deeds and old renown, and smothered him with their em-bracings; but Joan was there first, hugged close to his breast, and covering his face with idolatrous kisses ....
The deerslayer - By James Fenimore Cooper
...That animal seems to give you great satisfaction, Sarpent, though it 's an idolatrous head, at the best . " "...
Westward Ho! - By Charles Kingsley, N. C. Wyeth
...And rubbing the back of his head for a minute, he jumped up the ladder again, shouting--`` Have at ye, idolatrous pagans !...
Adam Bede - By George Eliot
...But a certain awe mingled itself with her idolatrous love of Adam, and when he said, `` Leave me alone, " she was always silenced ....
The American - By Henry James
...indeed bore a very fair likeness to a revered effigy in some idolatrous shrine ....
The Damnation of Theron Ware - By Harold Frederic
...He took it for granted, for example, that in the large cities most of the poverty and all the drunkenness, crime, and political corruption were due to the perverse qualities of this foreign people,--qualities accentuated and emphasized in every evil direction by the baleful influence of a false and idolatrous religion ....
The History of the Caliph Vathek - By William Beckford, Samuel Henley, Edward Denison Ross
...Vathek meanwhile saluted the moon with an idolatrous air, that neither pleased Morakana-bad nor the Doctors of the law, any more than the vizirs and the grandees of his court, who were all assembled to enjoy the last view of their Sovereign ....
History of Prose Fiction - By John Colin Dunlop, Henry Wilson
...The story of Perseus and Andromeda found a kind of allegorical application to the delivery of a country or city from idolatry, the country or city being personified by the female figure of the story; and saints whom tradition avers to have introduced Christianity and abolished idolatrous worship are often represented with the accessory emblem of a draconiform monster ....
Penrod - By Booth Tarkington, Gordon Grant, Doubleday, Page & Company, Country Life Press
...Verman, the tattooed wild boy, speaking only in his native foreign languages, Verman the gay, Verman the caperer, capered no more; he chuckled no more, he beckoned no more, nor tapped his chest, nor wreathed his idolatrous face in smiles ....
Kept in the Dark - By Anthony Trollope
...He was almost idolatrous to her in these first days of their marriage, but then he had found nothing out ....