basileiolatry
nounUK /basɪleɪˈɒlətɹi/
Etymology Ancient Greek βασίλειος (basíleios, “of the king”) (from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”)) + -latry (from the Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía, “worship”)).
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In figurative use Worship of the king.
- At Westminster the established religion is Basileiolatry.1872, Sacristy, volume II, footnote, page 10:
- The “basileiolatry” which we are told is now the prevailing worship at Westminster seems to have begun in the middle ages.1897, John Wickham Legg, Missale Ad Usum Ecclesie Westmonasteriensis, volume III, page 1,407:
4 more examples
- 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.1960, Johannes Quasten, Stephan Kuttner, editors, Traditio, volume XVI, page 122:
- Already in the tenth century basileiolatry…was established in England. The king was God’s thegn, His vicar upon earth.1963, Henry Gerald Richardson, George Osborne Sayles, The Governance of Mediaeval England, page 142:
- Maybe you have some half-baked mixture of feudal and absolutist theories in mind…and the basileiolatry you display suggests so.2000 April 23rd, François R. Velde, alt.talk.royalty, “Re: Male Swedish Crown Prince?”, message 25
- Boyd’s ensuing burst of proud Scots patriotism quickly gives place to a flood of boundless basileiolatry and optimism.2008, Julian Goodare, Alasdair A. MacDonald, editors, Sixteenth-Century Scotland, page 414: