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The European pollack; -- called also laith, and leet. [Scot.]

of, or belief in, a plurality of gods. In the Old Testament, the gradual development of polytheism from the primitive monotheism may be learned. Shaff-Herzog.

One who believes in, or maintains the doctrine of, a plurality of gods.

Of or pertaining to polytheism; characterized by polytheism; professing or advocating polytheism; as, polytheistic worship; a polytheistic author, or nation. -- Pol`y*the*is"tic*al*ly, adv.

To adhere to, advocate, or inculcate, the doctrine of polytheism. Milman.

The condition of having more than two teats, or nipples.

The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections.

One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of ancient heretics who believed that God has a human form, etc. Tillotson.

The ascription of human feelings or passions to God, or to a polytheistic deity. In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare.

ain, Then, hid in shades, eludes he eager swain. Pope. The transition from fetichism to polytheism seems a gradual process of which the stages elude close definition. Tylor.

falls into two great divisions, the first belonging rather to fetichism, the second to polytheism proper. Tylor.

od fish of Europe (Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack.

The ascription of human atributes to the Deity, or to a polytheistic deity; anthropomorphism. Gladstone.

elief or acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as opposed to atheism, pantheism, or polytheism.