Allotheistic

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to allotheism.

    "And he inveighed against Candle-mas as an allotheistic thing, a burning of tapers to Februa; and he indicted the vanity of Shrove-tide, with its cock-scaling in honor not of Christ but Themistocles..."

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"And he inveighed against Candle-mas as an allotheistic thing, a burning of tapers to Februa; and he indicted the vanity of Shrove-tide, with its cock-scaling in honor not of Christ but Themistocles..."

Etymology

From allo- + theistic.

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