basileiolatry
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek βασίλειος (basíleios, “of the king”) (from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”)) + -latry (from the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía, “worship”)).
Pronunciation
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Noun
basileiolatry (uncountable)
- (chiefly in figurative use) Worship of the king.
- 1872, Sacristy II, page 10, footnote
- At Westminster the established religion is Basileiolatry.
- 1897, John Wickham Legg, Missale Ad Usum Ecclesie Westmonasteriensis III, page 1,407
- The “basileiolatry” which we are told is now the prevailing worship at Westminster seems to have begun in the middle ages.
- 1960, Johannes Quasten and Stephan Kuttner [eds.], Traditio XVI, page 122
- When…the Second Recension was revised, the revisers…took pains to give greater significance to the queen’s coronation.…Different as it was, the same spirit of basileiolatry inspired the alternative version.
- 1963, Henry Gerald Richardson and George Osborne Sayles, The Governance of Mediaeval England, page 142
- Already in the tenth century basileiolatry…was established in England. The king was God’s thegn, His vicar upon earth.
- 2000 April 23rd, François R. Velde, alt.talk.royalty, “Re: Male Swedish Crown Prince?”, message 25
- Maybe you have some half-baked mixture of feudal and absolutist theories in mind…and the basileiolatry you display suggests so.
- 2008, Julian Goodare and Alasdair A. MacDonald [eds.], Sixteenth-Century Scotland, page 414
- Boyd’s ensuing burst of proud Scots patriotism quickly gives place to a flood of boundless basileiolatry and optimism.
- 1872, Sacristy II, page 10, footnote
Related terms
Translations
worship of the king
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References
- “Basileio·latry” listed on page 690 of volume I (A–B) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1885]
Basileio·latry. nonce-wd. [f. Gr. βασίλειο-ς of the king + λατρεία worship.] King-worship. [¶] 1872 Sacristy II. 10 note, At Westminster the established religion is Basileiolatry. - “basileiˈolatry” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]