How To Use Idolatrous In A Sentence
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The ephod is a kind of garment mentioned in the O.T., which differed according to its use by the high-priest, by other persons present at religious services, or as the object of idolatrous worship.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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Another reason the people of Judah asked for God to destroy the enemy was that by allowing these idolatrous people to remain the victors, it brought shame and reproach upon the people who served God.
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They deny themselves to be a generation of idolaters: "We are not born of fornication, are not the children of idolatrous parents, nor have been bred up in idolatrous worships.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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a machine he called a banjo, upon which he would play lewd and idolatrous music which was most pleasing to the ear; and he would sing songs while he played, which all ended with a yell.
Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories
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Putting aside the exaggeration contained in the word "idolatrously," Mr. Urban's opinion is not unjustified.
'Shoah' and Poland
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As for the joyous and lepid consul, he jokes upon neutral flags and frauds, jokes upon Irish rebels, jokes upon northern and western and southern foes, and gives himself no trouble upon any subject; nor is the mediocrity of the idolatrous deputy of the slightest use.
Political Pamphlets
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He has called capitalism 'an economy of exclusion by an idolatrous system of money'.
Times, Sunday Times
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The time that ambry introduces from Europe is not long, because mistake of this a lot of consumer is quality of homebred ambry brand, did not assure and idolatrous foreign brand.
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Folk Songs respected its sources, but it was not idolatrous of them.
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Although sacred images were potentially idolatrous, Luther refused to condone the purge and instead counter-accused the iconoclasts by affirming the impossibility of an image-less faith.
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His counterpart, James Ussher, Protestant archbishop of Armagh from 1625, returned the compliment, drawing up with his fellow bishops in 1626 an uncompromising attack upon the Roman Catholic church declaring it to be superstitious, idolatrous, erroneous, heretical and apostatical.
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Combining art and mass education, Lutheran artists also carefully redefined their own social role, now that the creation of statuary, frescoes, and altarpieces was condemned as ‘idolatrous’.
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Should we marvel then at the Cynics and the hippies, the Rousseaus and the Gauguins, sensitive souls that pilgrimaged towards incorporeal spirit, but found the altar crowded with genuflections before idolatrous matter?
In Quest of Happiness
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Many Muslim scholars consider statues to be idolatrous, and other AK officials have not disguised their aversion to them.
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Particularly in this society, where consumption drives the economic system and where economic values shape even family and church decision-making, the idolatrous dimension of mammon is both ubiquitous and subtle.
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This idolatrous crowd postulates an ideal worthy of itself and appropriate to its nature, that is perfectly understandable.
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Dan and Beth-el in Ephraim were the two places where Jeroboam set up the idolatrous calves (1Ki 12: 29); just retribution.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Will Herberg argued that American civil religion essentially was idolatrous worship of itself, merely propagating an ethnocentric American way of life around the world.
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the people idolatrously worshipped the Golden Calf
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In Lev. 17: 7 the word "devil" is the translation of the Hebrew sair, meaning a "goat" or "satyr" (Isa. 13: 21; 34: 14), alluding to the wood-daemons, the objects of idolatrous worship among the heathen.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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But it's also no surprise that he reserves the most lingering, even idolatrous close-ups for himself, engorging the frame with his handsome visage.
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While the parallels between the traditional lover-poet and this artist identify Pygmalion as the consummate Petrarchan, the Pygmalion text also exhibits an anxiety over producing idolatrous art.
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This fascination brings him to the IBM factory in Poughkeepsie, where he is struck above all by the spooky, almost idolatrous worship of the company's president, Thomas Watson Jr.
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For decennia on end indeed they hold fast to it, but soon their idolatrous tendency, which has only been repressed by fear of the judge during his lifetime, again finds expression; they must have
Prolegomena
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This kind of coiffure had a highly idolatrous meaning; and it was adopted, with some slight variations, by almost all idolaters in ancient times.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Haran dies at the feet of his father, Terah, who, we learn elsewhere, was not merely an idolater but actually made idols for a living—a true master of idolatrous power-logic.
The Ten Commandments
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Archaeological evidence suggests the same, indicating that only later did mankind degenerate into idolatrous pantheism.
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And because we too are tempted, sometimes we unfortunately offer idolatrous sports fans nothing but another form of idolatry when we scold in the name of Christianity.
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Certain people, particularly those who have an almost idolatrous view of human reason, will reject this concept outright.
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Koerner uses it to illustrate Luther's condemnation of iconoclasts - fellow Protestants who destroyed ‘idolatrous’ art.
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After the expulsion from Paradise of Adam and Eve, Satan and his followers did not return to Hell, but remained on earth, the fallen angels becoming the evil gods of various idolatrous nations and Satan engaging in every kind of evildoing which he knew would vex the Powers of Heaven.
National Epics
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In November of that year the newly appointed Anglican Archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher, and his suffragan bishops issued a statement declaring that the ‘religion of papists is superstitious and idolatrous erroneous and heretical.’
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Many were torn up as idolatrous or for their metal content - their 'brass' is roughly 75 per cent copper.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the other hand, while the characters may indeed be idolatrous, money-grubbing boors, the Americanisms they use in their speech suggest that these are values they picked up right here in the United States.
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To cut a long discourse short, it is the third sense that best expresses what is offered and required in Christian believing – the language of Holy Mystery embodied in appropriate relationship, by which we non-idolatrously and wholeheartedly give ourselves to the truth, flourishing and freedom to which we are summoned – but which at one level wholly exceeds what we are able to think, see or do.
Keith Ward, Big Questions in Science and Religion 7: Is Science the Only Sure Path to Truth?
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This idolatrous crowd postulates an ideal worthy of itself and appropriate to its nature, that is perfectly understandable.
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Utilitarian memorials, in Johnson's mind, were in vogue because they would guard against the great sin of traditional - that is, idle and idolatrous - memorials.
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The denial of intellectual humility is to erect an idolatrously closed mental system, which inevitably seeks to displace God.
Spiritual cancer (or: why I hate fundamentalism)
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He called such acts idolatrous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Brennan therefore had no trouble assuring the Senate Judiciary Committee that in any conflict between the Constitution and the Church, he would always prefer the Constitution, a viewed deemed "idolatrous" -- I think for good reason -- by Thomas Shaffer.
Balkinization
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The inherent dialectic of desire itself had in a way already shown me this; for all images and sensations, if idolatrously mistaken for joy itself, soon honestly confessed themselves inadequate.
Surprised by Joy
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Nor was my qualifying "apparently" meant in any way to suggest doubt or disbelief that Jerzy Urban had described Tygodnik Powszechny as "idolatrously philo-Semitic.
'Shoah' and Poland
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idolatrous worship
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Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary -- This precept is frequently repeated along with the prohibition of idolatrous practices, and here it stands closely connected with the superstitions forbidden in the previous verses.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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And the congregation sat partly clustered on the slope below, and partly among the idolatrous monoliths and on the turfy soil of the Ring itself.
Lay Morals
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Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry.
Man and Superman
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Well, he's a friend of the band, or more likely a desperate, Tweedy-worshipping hanger-on, which is obvious from the movie's idolatrous tone.
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He called such acts idolatrous.
Times, Sunday Times
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He did not mourn his personal sin, of course, but that of his fellow repatriates - who had been freed from captivity only to inter-marry with idolatrous Canaanites.
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I rail at the theistic credulity of Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry.
Epistle Dedicatory
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Why would any self-respecting Protestant want to participate in idolatrous behavior??
Holy Communion and Non-Catholics
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What was relevant, however, I think, is that if the leading and most influential Catholic weekly in Poland, which has close ties with the Church hierarchy and which has been shaping public opinion of the Catholic community since 1945, can be qualified as "idolatrously philo-Semitic," it gives — I presume — some kind of evidence that something did substantially change in Poland as far as the Catholic attitude toward the Jews is concerned.
'Shoah' and Poland
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Since pilgrimage to Mecca is one of the pillars of Islam, turning Mecca, and the black rock the muslims so idolatrously worship, into a nuclear wasteland will destroy their cult.
Wise words from Hamas....
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Many were torn up as idolatrous or for their metal content - their 'brass' is roughly 75 per cent copper.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only idolatrous devotion could keep such brilliant minds from acknowledging the irrationality of crediting the blind force of nature with such teleological precision.
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As it has done on four prior occasions, the Senate should shelve this most dangerous and idolatrous assault on our civil and religious liberties.
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This was that host of heaven which the Jews idolatrously worshipped: chap. viii.
Pneumatologia
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It is no accident that the surge in idolatrous reality television you so abhor coincided with this call to propaganda.
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-- I'se be caution the warst stibbler that ever stickit a sermon out ower the Tweed yonder, wad lay a ghaist twice as fast as him, wi 'his holy water and his idolatrous trinkets.
Rob Roy — Volume 01
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He has called capitalism 'an economy of exclusion by an idolatrous system of money'.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this literalization, the idolatrous deception of the first moment becomes readable.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Saoud had indeed once given orders, that none of these Turkish pilgrims, who still flocked from Yembo to this tomb, even after the interruption of the regular pilgrim-caravans, should any more be permitted to enter Medina: and this he did to prevent what he called their idolatrous praying; a practice which it was impossible to abolish without excluding them at once from the mosque; this prohibition Saoud did not think proper to enforce: he therefore preferred keeping them from the city, under pretence that their improper behaviour rendered such a proceeding necessary.
Travels in Arabia
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In this literalization, the idolatrous deception of the first moment becomes readable.
The Times Literary Supplement
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When he noticed the camp counselor spirit that animated her while she tussled with his toddler sons, and how easily she jollied his sometimes dour boys into giggles, Enrique fancied that he was meeting the adolescent girl whose idolatrous kid brother forgave her for all his wounds.
A Happy Marriage
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When nations intervene, manipulating grief, they offer idolatrous, nationalistic, vengeful substitutions for the grace of God and true community.
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Facing persecution in idolatrous Mecca, in AD 622 the Prophet Muhammad pronounced an anathema on the city's leaders and took his followers to Medina.
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It was also, I now realize, a matter of ‘training,’ of that blithe and idolatrous homage we pay to credentials, whether or not they are pertinent to the task at hand.
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The Scriptural Lord's Supper had been supplanted by the idolatrous sacrifice of the mass.
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In the footnote Mr. Garton Ash mentions the fact that Tygodnik Powszechny (the Catholic weekly I am editing) has been "apparently" described by Mr. Jerzy Urban, the Polish government press spokesman, as "idolatrously philo-Semitic.
'Shoah' and Poland
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The spirit of reform had driven those, who so violently felt its influence, into many usages that, to say the least, were quite as ungracious to the imagination, as the customs they termed idolatrous were obnoxious to the attacks of their own unaccommodating theories.
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
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“Never enough, sir, while one of the idolatrous tyrants is left unhanged,” said he, with a right bitter smile.
Westward Ho!
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The multi-directional informational flow helps to make the internet a distinctive surveillant assemblage (Haggerty and Ericson, 2000: 605) with an idolatrous dream of omniperception and a minacious twinkle in the electronic eye.
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So long as business is held to have a commercial interest in behaving morally and responsibly by putting more ‘feminine’ titles on sale, the market will continue to be the subject of idolatrous worship.
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In this literalization, the idolatrous deception of the first moment becomes readable.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Plans and strategies for growth can become idolatrous and result in questionable distortions of the gospel.
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The son's room, then, may remain just that: an earthly shrine to an idolatrous attachment.
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To Struan, the bishop represented all that he despised in the Catholics — the dogmatic fanaticism of self-castrated, power-seeking men who sucked riches from the poor in the name of a Catholic God, drop by bloody drop, and from the drops built mighty cathedrals to the glory of their version of Divinity, who had idolatrously set up a man in Rome as Pope and made the man an infallible arbiter of other men.
Tai-Pan
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Lawyers today are rarely that idolatrous, but most of them salute the customary emblems of American civil religion.
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--- I'se be caution the warst stibbler that ever stickit a sermon out ower the Tweed yonder, wad lay a ghaist twice as fast as him, wi 'his holy water and his idolatrous trinkets.
Rob Roy
