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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Serpent-worship.

Wiktionary

  1. n. snake worship

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The worship of serpents.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the worship of snakes

Etymologies

  1. Ancient Greek (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Phallic worship would seem to have been always confined to these temples, with ophiolatry -- the nagas or water-snake deities being accommodated in sacred tanks, in the midst of which the early Kashmir temples were usually placed.”

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  1. zoolatry
  1. animal-worship

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. snake-worship
  1. ophiolater
  1. ophiolatrous
  1. ophism

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