basileiolatry

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English

WOTD – 20 August 2011

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Etymology

Ancient Greek βασίλειος (basíleios, “of the king”) (from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”)) +‎ -latry (from the Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía, “worship”)).

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Noun

basileiolatry (uncountable)

  1. (chiefly in figurative use) Worship of the king.
    • 1872, Sacristy, volume II, footnote, page 10:
      At Westminster the established religion is Basileiolatry.
    • 1897, John Wickham Legg, Missale Ad Usum Ecclesie Westmonasteriensis‎, volume III, page 1,407:
      The “basileiolatry” which we are told is now the prevailing worship at Westminster seems to have begun in the middle ages.
    • 1960, Johannes Quasten, Stephan Kuttner, editors, Traditio‎, volume XVI, page 122:
      When…the Second Recension was revised, the revisers…took pains to give greater significance to the queen’s coronation.…Different as it was, the same spirit of basileiolatry inspired the alternative version.
    • 1963, Henry Gerald Richardson, George Osborne Sayles, The Governance of Mediaeval England‎, page 142:
      Already in the tenth century basileiolatry…was established in England. The king was God’s thegn, His vicar upon earth.
    • 2000 April 23rd, François R. Velde, alt.talk.royalty, “Re: Male Swedish Crown Prince?”, message 25
      Maybe you have some half-baked mixture of feudal and absolutist theories in mind…and the basileiolatry you display suggests so.
    • 2008, Julian Goodare, Alasdair A. MacDonald, editors, Sixteenth-Century Scotland‎, page 414:
      Boyd’s ensuing burst of proud Scots patriotism quickly gives place to a flood of boundless basileiolatry and optimism.
Some English terms derived from the Ancient Greek βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”)

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