zoolatroushttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoolatrous_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezoolatrous, adj.
Revised 2017

zoolatrousadjective

  1. 1876–
    Of, relating to, or practising zoolatry.
    1. 1876
      Zoolâtrique, zoolatrous.
      F. E. A. Gasc, Dictionary French & English Language (new edition) 580/2
    2. 1898
      Vestiges of zoölatrous worship.
      E. P. Evans, Evolutional Ethics i. 6
    3. 1913
      Her primitive character..appears in the account of her marriages with animals, in which there is to be recognized the trace of the old zoölatrous period.
      C. H. Toy, Introd. Hist. Religion 331
    4. 1983
      Perhaps no zoolatrous culture has accorded as much attention to birds that unquestionably were deities as the Egyptian.
      B. Mundkur, Cult Serpent 101
    5. 2011
      There could be nothing more unnatural to Christianity than the..zoolatrous worship of a cat, pig or bull.
      A. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Law & Ecology 160

Originally published as part of the entry for zoolatry, n.

zoolatrous, adj. was revised in June 2017.

zoolatrous, adj. was last modified in March 2024.