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Self-worship; excessive self-esteem.

IDOLATER n. 2 definitions

An adorer; a great admirer. Jonson was an idolater of the ancients. Bp. Hurd.

A female worshiper of idols.

Idolatrous. [Obs.]

IDOLATRIZE v. 2 definitions

To worship idols; to pay idolatrous worship.

IDOLATROUS a. 2 definitions

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.

IDOLATROUSLY adv.

In a idolatrous manner.

IDOLATRY n. 2 definitions

es, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods. His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah. Milton.

ch is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion. Fraudulent deductions or inconsequent illations from a false conception of things. Sir T. Browne.

ILLATIVE a. 2 definitions

Relating to, dependent on, or denoting, illation; inferential; conclusive; as, an illative consequence or proposition; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc. Illative conversion (Logic), a converse or reverse statement of a proposition which in that form must be true because the original proposition is true. -- Il…

ILLATIVELY adv.

By inference; as an illative; in an illative manner.

re. Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate. Denham. Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. Shak. Immaculate conception (R. C. Ch.), the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin. -- Im*mac"u*late*ly, adv. -- Im*mac"u*late*ness, n.…

ce; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim. Worshipers, who not only immolate to them [the deities] the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women. Boyle.

IMMOLATION n. 2 definitions

The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed. Sir. T. Browne.

ffers in sacrifice; specifically, one of a sect of Russian fanatics who practice self-mutilatio and sacrifice.

Unpalatable. [R.]

To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship with iron.

INARTICULATE a. 4 definitions

Not uttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words. Music which is inarticulate poesy. Dryden.

INARTICULATED a.

Not articulated; not jointed or connected by a joint.

INARTICULATELY adv.

In an inarticulate manner. Hammond.