Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The worship of an ass or asses: ascribed to various ancient sects.
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- noun
Worship of the ass or donkey. - noun
Preoccupation with ordevotion to something foolish.
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Examples
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As regards the last of these, romanticism, according to the author, has meant the rehabilitation of the ass, and the Rousseauists are guilty of onolatry.
The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914
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The calumny of onolatry, or ass-worship, attributed by Tacitus and other writers to the Jews, was afterwards, by the hatred of the latter, transferred to the Christians (Tac.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
flannagan commented on the word onolatry
Ass-worship.
July 30, 2007