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basileolatry en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /basɪlɪˈɒlətɹi/ (UK)
• băsĭlĭŏʹlətri (UK)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βασιλε(ύς) (basile(ús), “king”) + English -latry (from the Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía, “worship”); compare basilean, basileiolatry, and basilolatry.

Meanings

1. (rare, uncountable) basileiolatry
   • Against the Byzantine Basileolatry. 1850, Dr Augustus Neander, translated by Joseph Torrey, General History of the Christian Religion and Church, III, page xvii:
   • Before the Reform Bill anything resembling the neurosis of English Basileolatry was even more completely unknown. 1938, Robert Briffault, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, pages 114–115: