One of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen.
A worshiper of the god Vishnu in any of his incarnations.
A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan.
An adherent of the Sabian religion; a worshiper of the heavenly bodies.
With much twisting of fingers and cabalistic waving of hands, a worshiper would draw something from a bag purchased from the priest.
The girl moved nearer to me and none too quietly mocked priest and worshiper gaily.
The Hotel Montmartre was then the fashionable resort of Louis Napoleon's dissolute nobility, and the Baron de Reviere soon found himself a worshiper in the luxurious retreat.
When she discovered the nature of the instrument she was extremely indignant and demanded from Mr. James the telegrams and letters in his possession which had been sent to her by her worshiper in the heyday of their passion.
By this they meant that the attitude of the suppliant should ever be toward the highest, making the soul soar up to the Highest and Holiest in reverent awe and adoration, transforming the worshiper into a new character, pure from all dross.
The type of this class was Naaman, the Syrian general who was instructed by Elijah to bathe in the Jordan to cure his leprosy, and then became a worshiper of the God of Israel.
There are three thousand and thirty-four opera chairs arranged in a semicircle, and every person in the congregation can see clearly the platform and chorus, and each normal worshiper can be heard from the pulpit.
Yet here again we find strong evidence that sometimes the worshiper is directed to a particular record which seems to be selected by a divine mind.
It was an indwelling of the Spirit which carried a purifying fumigation wherein the worshiper simply let go of himself and rested in the arms of his heavenly Father.
And when the leader is himself expecting a special revelation from that Book at that time his personal magnetism combines with his manner to help the worshiper into a receptive, expectant state of mind.
It would seem as if such a blind and superstitious self-worshiper could have but little chance of winning sympathy, and the less chance for the reason that he really does nothing in the play to justify his grand airs.
Then at last the timorous, cunctatory worshiper of femininity in the abstract declared himself and prayed to know if the good news could be true.
His enthusiasm increases the 'mighty suggestion' that goes out from Wallenstein; one feels that the object of such idolatry from such a worshipermust indeed be great.
This worshiper of Mammon had gone into his cave, to pay his devoirs to his golden god, and became a sacrifice to his devotion!
Defn: An adherent of the Sabian religion; a worshiper of the heavenly bodies.
Defn: A worshiper of the god Vishnu in any of his incarnations.
Defn: One of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen.
Defn: A worshiperof fire; a Zoroastrian; a Parsee.
When the devotions were over I was disappointed to find that the congregation contained not a single worshiper whom I had known or heard of at home.
Voting alone may not be enough, though," another worshiper interposed.
An Athenian citizen, as such, was a worshiperof the Athenian gods.
What is the difference between a worshiper who thus seeks indulgence through the worship of an image in Brazil and a like worshiper with a like soul need bowing before a similar wooden image in Africa or China?
This is exactly the reason the more intelligent fetish worshiper in Africa assigns for worshiping his hand-made god.
The worshiperlooked on; he worshiped now by proxy.
As the appointed hour comes round the Moslem is bound to turn aside to pray--so much so that in Central Asia we read of the police driving the backward worshiperby the lash to discharge the duty.
An ordinary worshiper presents some of the offerings, mutters a short prayer or two, when circumambulating the image, the rest being done by the priest.
In every case the offering was made as directed, and when made, the worshiper was assured that his sin was forgiven.
Hence the worshiper must become a priest, and then worship through Christ as high priest.
Its blood was poured out on the altar, a token that the life of the worshiper was given to God (Lev.
This regarded the worshiper as already reconciled, and expressed his consecration to God.
The offering was divided into three parts, one part burned upon the altar, a second eaten by the priest, a third part eaten by the worshiper and his friends as a sacrificial supper.
Thus God, the priest, and the worshiper were all represented as taking a meal together.
This regarded the worshiper as a sinner, and expressed the means of his reconciliation with God.
Nabuna'id, King of Babylon, the restorer of Esagila and Ezida, the worshiper of the great gods am I .
These varied in form and in artistic merit, but were all designed to foster in the worshiperthat type of debasing service described in Isa.
A special form of the gift-theory, with a peculiar coloring, is that which holds that some object is substituted for the worshiper who has fallen under the displeasure of the deity and is in danger of punishment.
Thus the virtue of the communal feast was twofold: it placated the supernatural Power, and it procured for the worshiper a satisfactory meal and probably also an infusion of superhuman power.
The particular method of conducting the ceremonies in such cases varied with the place and time, but the purpose of the worshiper and the general methods of proceeding are the same among all peoples and at all times.
On the other hand, it tended to produce a low physical conception of the divine person, and to distract the mind of the worshiper from the ethical side of worship.
It is true that the dead were often consulted (and necromancy long survived among civilized peoples), but any spirit or god might take possession of a worshiper and make him the vehicle of revelation.
For the worshiper the blood had strengthening power.
Thus, men and gods take part in the process of freeing the worshiper from the impure elements of life: the man obeys the law of the ritual, and the god receives him into association with the divine.
And, as the death of the divine victim is held to rescue the worshiper from punishment for ill doing, the conclusion is natural that the former stands in the place of the latter.
The dominant feeling is then self-denial, at the bottom of which the conviction appears to be that the deity demands complete subordination in the worshiper and is displeased when he asserts himself.
Thus in many cases the worshiper had to be prepared by purificatory and other ceremonies, and the priest had to submit to certain rules before he could undertake the sacrifice.
It is the humanized god that has emotional life, and it is in this mythical life that the religious feeling of the worshiper is expressed with greatest fullness of detail.
Ginger's most partial worshiper would have had to look a long while to find modesty in the bearing of that hero, yet he was very popular also.
Now he was a fireworshiper in a primeval forest; now he was cleansing his spirit in the blood of sacrifice; now he was kneeling and praying; now he was dancing round a pile of stones.
The labyrinth is absolutely trackless to the human mind when once the worshiper becomes entangled therein.
Before engaging in prayer the worshiper washes face, hands, and feet; during the prayer he turns toward Mecca and bows his head to the ground.
The eyes of the worshiper are dazzled by the walls faced with marble slabs of variegated colors, by the columns of polished marble, jasper, and porphyry, and by the brilliant mosaic pictures of gilded glass.
Organs did not come into use until the seventh century, and then only in the West, but church bells, summoning the worshiper to divine service, early became attached to Christian edifices.
A Roman emperor, himself a god to the subjects of Rome, became the worshiper of a crucified provincial of his empire.
A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration.
A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater.
The bright-colored heap stirred into life and the sorrowful worshiper rose and looked about her bewildered.
It was their intention to creep away as noiselessly as possible and leave the unhappy worshiper at the shrine none the wiser that she had been observed by profane, foreign eyes.
You know, perhaps, Mr. Malling, how the worshiper receives any confidence from the one he worships.
It was my maladie de grandeur, I think, that made me long to use my worshiper Chichester as a mere tool for the opening of that door which shuts off from us the region the dead have entered.
The imagination of the worshiperis thus excited by successive statues and pictures, until at last he reaches the tremendous pyramidal tower, or gopura, which portrays and symbolizes the power of the heathen god to destroy and to recreate.
Any worshiper can prove his faith by clapping a bit of gold-leaf upon the statue.
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