Significant truly, that in his old age Solomon the wise should love strange women, and deserting for their sakes the God of his fathers, end as an idolater and a dotard, worshipping the abominations of the heathen, his once world-famous wisdom sunk into utter folly.

Then we should see something of the spirit of consistent gallantry; and no longer witness the anomaly of the same mana pattern of true politeness to a wifeof cold contempt, or rudeness, to a sisterthe idolater of his female mistressthe disparager and despiser of his no less female aunt, or unfortunatestill femalemaiden cousin.

Moreover, the daughter of Pharaoh was an idolater, and her influence, so far as it went, tended to wean the king from his religious duties,at least to make him tolerant of false gods.

And he was not only a sensualist and a tyrant, an egotist, and to some extent an idolater, but he was a cynic, sceptical of all good, and of the very attainments which had made him famous.

But Mr. Froude has attempted to reverse this verdict, as he has in reference to Henry VIII., and as Carlyleanother idolater of forcehas attempted in the cases of Oliver Cromwell and Frederick II.

From him we went to the court of Cota, the khans second lady, who is an idolater, and whom we found very sick; yet the Armenian monk made her rise from bed and adore the cross on her knees, with many ceremonies.

This lady was an idolater, yet she worshipped the cross, according to the directions of the monk and priests.

He is of our religion, because we say it is most antient; and yet a broken statue would almost make him an idolater.

It is probable that this passage should be thus understood, "The king sent him a pilot, who was an idolater from Guzerate, &c."E. The addition to, or observations on the text, inserted in this place within inverted commas, are from Clarke, I. 486, 487.E. In Lichefild's translation this date is made the 22d; but the Friday after Sunday the 21st, must have been the 26th of the month.

Bontaybo applied the same significant term of kafr to the image worshippers of all denominations, without discriminating one species of idolater from another.

The king is an idolater, of the same manners and customs with him of Calicut; but his country being small he is very poor, and has not even the right to coin money, being in many respects subordinate to the zamorin; who, on his accession to the throne always goes to Cochin, and takes possession of that kingdom, either retaining it in his own hands, or restoring the rajah as he may think proper.

This person, though an idolater and a stranger, had come aboard our fleet with the intention of becoming a Christian, and of going into Portugal, and our general had him baptised by the name of Michael.

It is my firm belief that if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolater among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence.

It is true that he also developed polytheistic ideas and beliefs, and that he cultivated them at certain periods of his history with diligence, and to such a degree that the nations around, and even the stranger in his country, were misled by his actions, and described him as a polytheistic idolater.

You superstitious idolater!

'Tis true, the Pigeons, and their prince elect, Were short of power, their purpose to effect: But with their quills did all the hurt they could, And cuff'd the tender Chickens from their food: And much the Buzzard in their cause did stir, Though naming not the patron, to infer, With all respect, he was a gross idolater.

He had been too respectful, too humble, gazing at Leonora, timidly, submissively, from afar, as an idolater might look at an ikon.

The man who has sworn by eyes as black as a stormy midnight and raven hair generally unites himself to the most insipid thing in blondes, and the idolater of golden locks takes to wife some frizzy-haired West Indian with an unmistakable dip of the tar-brush.

Man is an idolater or symbol-worshipper by nature, which, of course, is no fault of his; but sooner or later all his local and temporary symbols must be ground to powder, like the golden calf,word-images as well as metal and wooden ones.

Bemoin had, likewise, told the king, that to the east of the kingdom of Tombut, there was, among other princes, one that was neither Mahometan nor idolater, but who seemed to profess a religion nearly resembling the Christian.

He is an idolater.'

I became an idolater, and my body a temple of idolatry.'

The Intention therefore of the Idol is quite contrary to the wishes of the Idolater; as the one desires to confine the Idol to himself, the whole Business and Ambition of the other is to multiply Adorers.

He vowed that he adored her as an idolater would worship his divinity.

EXORCISM, conjuration by God or Christ or some holy name, of some evil spirit to come out of a person; it was performed on a heathen as an idolater, and eventually on a child as born in sin prior to baptism.