NOUN
- (Old Testament) an idol made by Aaron for the Israelites to worship; destroyed by Moses; it is now used to refer to anything worshipped undeservedly
How To Use golden calf In A Sentence
- Why not just set up a statue of a golden calf taking a dump on a reel of film in the middle of Hollywood and be done with it?
- Whereas Aaron fashions a golden calf-like idol, saying he must appeal to the visual in order for the masses to understand, which he expresses quite brilliantly in song.
- In 1715," relates Dom Martin, "one Sieur Heribel exhumed in the vicinity of Bayeux, several argil vases full of bones, and concluded (in accordance with tradition and authorities which had disappeared) that this place, a necropolis, was the Mount Faunus in which the Golden Calf is buried. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life
- The sages say that this sin was in some ways more grievous than the sin of worshipping the Golden Calf.
- The steady stream of much-hyped, half-time commercials reminds us that capital is the golden calf. Lorenzo Candelaria: The Sacred Nature Of Music
- They went against God and all His teachings, reverting to idolatry and worshipping a golden calf.
- a religion as if the golden calf of Babylon were standard at Cornhill; to Voluptatism -- if I may fabricate a name for pleasure-hunters, following still, with Corybantic fury, the orgic revels of Osiris or An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
- the people idolatrously worshipped the Golden Calf
- He starts with the Bible, which includes the use of gold as adornment, the golden calf, and the detailed description of use of gold in sanctuary and tabernacle.
- McKay had told him he'd located the Golden Calf diggings and needed money to file claims and begin development. THE WAILING WIND