Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
998. worshipper, congregation, communicant, celebrant. V. worship, lift
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up the heart, aspire; revere &c. 928; adore, do service, pay homage;
humble oneself, kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee; fall down, fall on
one's knees; prostrate oneself, bow down and worship. pray, invoke,
supplicate; put up, offer up prayers, offer petitions; beseech &c.
(ask) 765; say one's prayers, tell one's beads. return thanks, give
thanks; say grace, bless, praise, laud, glorify, magnify, sing praises;
give benediction, lead the choir, intone; deacon, deacon off
propitiate[U.S.], offer sacrifice, fast, deny oneself; vow, offer vows,
give alms. work out one's salvation; go to church; attend service,
attend mass; communicate &c. (rite) 998. Adj. worshipping &c.v.;
devout, devotional, reverent, pure, solemn; fervid &c. (heartfelt) 821.
Int. hallelujah, allelujah[obs3]! hosanna! glory be to God! O Lord!
pray God that! God grant, God bless, God save, God forbid! sursum corda
[Lat]. Phr. "making their lives a prayer" [Whittier]; ora et
labora[Lat]; "prayers ardent open heaven" [Young].
#991. Idolatry.窶年. idolatry, idolism[obs3]; demonism[obs3],
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demonolatry[obs3]; idol-worship, demon-worship, devil-worship, fire-
worship; zoolatry, fetishism, fetichism; ecclesiolatry[obs3],
heliolatry,
Mariolatry, Bibliolatry[obs3].
deification, apotheosis, canonization; hero worship.
sacrifices, hecatomb, holocaust; human sacrifices, immolation,
mactation[obs3], infanticide, self-immolation, suttee.
idol, golden calf, graven image, fetich, avatar, Juggernath[obs3],
lares et penates[Lat]; Baal &c. 986[obs3].
V. worship idols, worship pictures, worship relics; deify,
canonize.
Adj. idolatrous.
Phr. adorer le veau d'or[Fr].
#992. Sorcery.窶年. sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the
black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy[obs3]; demonology,
demonomy[obs3], demonship[obs3]; diablerie[Fr], bedevilment;
witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetishism, fetichism, feticism[obs3];
ghost dance, hoodoo; obi, obiism[obs3]; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism
[Esquimaux], vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment,
mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism; od force, odylic
force[obs3]; electrobiology[obs3], clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit
rapping, table turning. divination &c. (prediction) 511;
sortilege[obs3], ordeal, sortes Virgilianae[obs3]; hocus-pocus &c.
(deception) 545. V. practice sorcery &c.n.; cast a nativity, conjure,
exorcise, charm, enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo; entrance,
mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate &c. (influence) 615; taboo; wave a
wand; rub the ring, rub the lamp; cast a spell; call up spirits, call
up spirits from the vasty deep; raise spirits from the dead. Adj.
magic, magical; mystic, weird, cabalistic, talismanic,
phylacteric[obs3], incantatory; charmed &c. v.; Circean, odylic[obs3],
voodoo.
#993. Spell.窶年. spell, charm, incantation, exorcism, weird,
cabala[obs3], exsufflation|, cantrap[obs3], runes, abracadabra, open
sesame, countercharm[obs3], Ephesian letters, bell book and candle,
Mumbo Jumbo, evil eye, fee-faw-fum. talisman, amulet, periapt[obs3],
telesm[obs3], phylactery, philter; fetich, fetish; agnus Dei[Latin:
lamb of God]; furcula[obs3], madstone[obs3]; mascot, mascotte[obs3];
merrythought[obs3]; Om, Aum[obs3]; scarab, scarabaeus[obs3];
sudarium[obs3], triskelion, veronica, wishbone; swastika, fylfot[obs3],
gammadion[obs3]. wand, caduceus, rod, divining rod, lamp of
Aladdin[obs3]; wishing-cap, Fortunatus's cap.
#994. Sorcerer.窶年. sorcerer, magician; thaumaturgist[obs3],
theurgist; conjuror, necromancer, seer, wizard, witch; hoodoo, voodoo;
fairy &c. 980; lamia[obs3], hag. warlock, charmer, exorcist,
mage[obs3]; cunning man, medicine man; Shaman, figure flinger,
ecstatica[obs3]; medium, clairvoyant, fortune teller; mesmerist; deus
ex machina[Lat]; soothsayer &c. 513. Katerfelto, Cagliostro, Mesmer,
Rosicrucian; Circe, siren, weird sisters.
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