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adorator en · NOUN

Etymology

From French adorateur and its etymon Latin adōrātor. By surface analysis, adore + -ator or adorate + -or.

Meanings

1. (uncommon) Synonym of adorer.
   • Two Vatican Congregations—the Consistorial Congregation and the Sacred Congregation of the Affairs of Religious—have commanded the 125,000 priests and members of religious orders in Italy to vote. According to a Rome dispatch of last February 24 to the N. Y. ‘Times,’ these include “Discalced Carmelites, the Adorators of the Holy Sacrament and Sisters of Holy Saviour, who live a completely secluded life.” 1948 April, “The Passing Show”, in L[eo] H[erbert] Lehmann, editor, The Converted Catholic Magazine, volume 9, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Christ’s Mission, page 122, column 1:
   • Remaining himself 'the adorator of Mazdah the god', and 'the most glorious of the adorators of Ormuzd', that is remaining a faithful adherent of the old Iranian religion, he took to persecuting the Christians in the most cruel way. 1990, P[etrus] F[ranciscus] M[aria] Fontaine, “[The Sasanian Empire] A brother kept at bay”, in The Light and the Dark: A Cultural History of Dualism, volume V (Dualism in Ancient Iran, India, and China), Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, →ISBN, chapter I (Persica Postalexandrica), page 16:
   • [James] Darmesteter translates the Av. quotation as follows: “It is the religion, very destructive to Añra Mainyu, which breaks to pieces the adorators of the daêvas, men who live in error.” 1940, Jamshedji Maneckji Unvala, “Colophons of Manuscripts in the University Library of Copenhagen”, in Collection of Colophons of Manuscripts Bearing on Zoroastrianism in Some Libraries of Europe, Bombay, Bombay Province: […] The Trustees of the Funds and Properties of the Parsi Punchayet, footnote 2, page 129:
   • The Italian election results reflected both the Democratic determination of the Italian electorate to remain a free and independent people, linked politically and militarily to the West, and the discomfort of many old-line Communists who had been adorators of [Joseph] Stalin and who now, since the Kremlin’s flip-flop, were uncertain of its meaning and stayed away from the polls. 1956 May 31, “Italy Displays Good Sense”, in Ralph E[dward] Heinzen, editor, The Belleville Times, volume 31, number 46, Belleville, N.J.: The Belleville News Corporation, published 1 June 1956, second section, page two, column 2:
   • Ibn Batutah, the arabian traveller, nearly contemporary with Marco Polo, says: »The Chinese are infidels, adorators of idols, and they burn their dead after the fashion of the Indians”. 1898, Gustave Schlegel, “[Bulletin Critique [Critical Bulletin].] The religious system of China, by J[an] J[akob] M[aria] De Groot, Book I, part III, The Grave (second half). […]”, in Gustave Schlegel, Henri Cordier, editors, 通報 Tʻoung pao: Archives pour servir à l’étude de l’histoire, des langues, la géographie et de l’ethnographie de l’Asie Orientale […] [Tʻoung Pao: Archives for Use in the Study of the History, Languages, Geography, and Ethnography of East Asia […]], volume IX, Leiden: […] E[vert] J[an] Brill, page 77, column 2:
   • Leibniz himself suggests at times that natural theology is fairly widespread, as he writes to [Joachim] Bouvet, “I have always had a tendency to believe that the ancient Chinese, as the ancient Arabs (witness the book of Job) and perhaps the ancient Celts, (that is to say Germans and Gaulians) have been far from idolatry, and rather adorators of a sovereign principle” (W 189). 2004, Franklin Perkins, “Interpreting China”, in Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 183:
   • For they are blind, / Let the blind then lead the blind! / I despise them, the adorators of the false / For I am only that which is real, / All else is a curse, my maya, / But it is my way to know me. 2020 [1980s?], Frater R. [pseudonym], “Meditations on the Star”, in Jon Lange, editor, The Dark Work: The Historical Account of the Cult of the Hidden God, with Papers and Letters from the Archives, 3rd edition, Kerygma Press, →ISBN, part 2 (Collected Papers and Documents from the Archives), page 221:
   • Ye adorators of the Dollar, to which you apply the qualification of “Almighty,” which only belongs to God—ye adorators of the idol “Profit”—you are not the men to insult the honor of a disinterested patriot, […] 1852 April 21, [Lajos] Kossuth, quotee, “Kossuth in Jersey City. Enthusiastic Reception. Speech to the Citizens, &c.”, in New-York Daily Times, volume I, number 185, New York, N.Y.: Raymond, Jones & Co., →OCLC, front page, column 2:
   • [H]umble adorators of harmony, they are content with the concerts which travelling artists occasionally present them. 1852 February 7, W[illiam] Grilliers, transl., “Henri Herz.—Reminiscences of His Travels in America. (Translated from ‘La France Musicale,’ […])”, in The Musical World, volume XXX, number 6, London: Myers & Co., page 85, column 1:
   • There were also two sections of the Adorators of the Holy Sacrament. 1987, Roger Price, “Religion”, in A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France, New York, N.Y.: Holmes & Meier, →ISBN, part 3 (Social Institutions), page 271:
   • Hasten, I entreat you, to cause your churches to assume an appearance more worthy of adorators of the beneficent Parent of the universe; […] 1799, James Madison, “[Journals of the Conventions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia, from the Year 1785 to the Present Day.] An Address to the Members of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia.”, in Francis L[ister] Hawks, Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the United States of America, volume I, New York, N.Y.: […] Harper & Brothers, […], published 1836, →OCLC, page 79, column 2:
   • A few years after Franklin’s death, a society of French deists made a précis of The Way to Wealth, gave it the title The Moral Thoughts of Franklin, and published it in a compilation of works of religious and moral contemplation, The Religious Year of the Theophilanthropists, or Adorators of God and Friends of Men. 1967, Alfred Owen Aldridge, “Practical Moralist”, in Benjamin Franklin and Nature’s God, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →LCCN, pages 56–57:
   • The Sātvatas of the Epic and Purāņas are especially known as adorators of Bhagavat. 1933 March, J[ean] Przyluski, “Satvant, Sātvata and Nāsatya”, in Narendra Nath Law, editor, The Indian Historical Quarterly, volume IX, number 1, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, page 90:
   • On the contrary the theistic sects, particularly the adorators of Vishnu, notably under the form of his Krishna avatar, hold that man may be led to salvation by the operations of the redeeming grace of a savior. 1949, Jacques de Marquette, “Buddhist Mysticism: The Quest for Enlightenment”, in Introduction to Comparative Mysticism, New York, N.Y.: Philosophical Library, →OCLC, page 88:
   • [I]f vve hold & proue that ther is no bread in our Euchariſtie, & Refor. can not shevv the contrary, vvith vvhat face can they reproch vnto vs that vve are adorators of bread? c. 1630, I. B. C., A Looking Glasse for Nevv Reformers. Ansvvering Paul Rainalds, Scotishmans Letter Persvvading His Brother to Forsake the True Ancient Catholike and Roman Religion., Lyon [actually Bordeaux?]: […] Thomas Stone […], →OCLC, page 406:
   • We read in Yaqout [al-Hamawi]: “Shiz—District of Azerbaidgân of which Moghaīrah ben Schâbah took possession by capitulation. Its real name in Persian is Djezn (جزن) or Guezn, of which the Arabs have made Schiz. They believe that it is the country of Zeraduscht (Zoroastre), the prophet of the adorators of fire. The chief place of this district is Ourmiah.” 1928, Jivanji Jamshedji Modi, “The Birth-Place of Zoroaster”, in Cama Oriental Institute Papers (Papers Contributed to the Journal of the K[harshedji] R[ustomji] Cama Oriental Institute, Bombay), Bombay, Bombay Presidency: The British India Press, section XIII ([H] Urumiâh. In What Part of Urumiâh Was the Home of Zoroaster Situated? In Âmvi.), page 231:
   • Dharmesin man’ur, the adorators of God. 1924, A. Grignard, “man’nā”, in An Oraon-English Dictionary in the Roman Character with Numerous Phrases Illustrative of Sense and Idiom and Notes on Tribal Customs, Beliefs, Etc. (Anthropos: Collection internationale de monographies linguistiques [Anthropos: International Collection of Linguistic Monographs]), St. Gabriel-Mödling: Administration of “Anthropos”, […]; Calcutta, Bengal Presidency: […] [T]he Catholic Orphan Press […]; Vienna: Mechitharisten-Buchdruckerei, →OCLC, page 481, column 1:
   • Itinerant priests, “adorators” of God, would have a profound influence on the young Muhammad and his subsequent ministry. 2005, Joseph Azzi, translated by Maurice Saliba, “Islam before Islam-Nosrania Sectarianism in Islam”, in David Bentley, editor, The Priest & The Prophet: The Christian Priest, Waraqa Ibn Nawfal’s, Profound Influence Upon Muhammad, The Prophet of Islam, Los Angeles, Calif.: The Pen Publishers, →ISBN, page 61:

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Synonyms

adorer