Thesaurus of English words and phrases : classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition / by Peter Mark Roget ; enlarged and improved, partly from the author's notes, and with a full index, by John Lewis Roget.

Peter Mark Roget

Date:: 1894

Credit: Thesaurus of English words and phrases : classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition / by Peter Mark Roget ; enlarged and improved, partly from the author's notes, and with a full index, by John Lewis Roget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Xnt. h-, allelujah ! hosanna! glory be to God ! O Lord ! pray God that! God -grant, - bless, - save, - forbid ! sursum cordu. 991. Idolatry.—w. idol-atry, -ism ; demon-ism, -olatry; idol demon -, devil -, fire- worship; zoolatry, fetichism; Mari-, Bibli- olatry. deification, apotheosis, canonization; hero worship. sacrifices, hecatomb, holocaust; human sacrifices, immolation, mac- tation, infanticide, self-immolation, suttee. idol, golden calf, graven image, fetich, avatar, Juggernauth, lares et penates ; Baal &c. 986. V. worship -idols, - pictures, - relics; deify, canonize. Adj. idolatrous. 992. Sorcery.—M. sorcery; occult -art, - sciences; magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy; demon-ology,-omy,-ship; diablerie, bedevilment; witch-craft, -ery; glamour; fetic-hism, -ism j Shamanism [Esquimaux], vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exor- cism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal mag- netism; od -, odylic- force; electro-biology, clairvoyance; spirituahsm, spirit-rapping, table-turning. divination ifec. (prediction) 511; sortilege, ordeal, sortes Virgiliance; hocus-pocus &c. {deception) 545. V. practice -sorcery &c. n.; cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant; be-witch, -devil; entrance, mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate &c. (influence^ 615 ; taboo; wave a wand; rub the -ring, - lamp; cast a spell; call up spirits, - from the vasty deep; raise spirits from the dead. Adj. magic, -al; mystic, weird, cabalistic, talismanic, phylacteric, incantatory; charmed &c. v. 993. Spell.—N. spell, charm, incantation, exorcism, weird, cabala^ exsufflation, cantrap, runes, abracadabra, open sesame, counter-charm, Ephe&ian letters, bell book and candle, Mumbo-jumbo, evil-eye, fee-faw- fum. talisman, amulet, periapt, telesm, phylactery, philtre ; fetich, fetish; agnus Dei, wand, caduceus, rod, divining rod, lamp of Aladdin ; wishing -, For- tunatus's- cap. 994. Sorcerer.—W. sorcerer, magician; thaumat-, the-urgist; conjuror, necromancer, seer, wizard, witch; fairy &c. 980; lamia, hag, •warlock, charmer, exorcist, mage; cunning -, medicine- man: Shaman, figure-flinger, ecstatica, medium, clairvoyant, mesmerist; deus ex ma- cAwa; soothsayer &c. 513. Katerfelto, Oagliostro, Mesmer, Rosicrucian; Circe, siren, weird sisters, 5°. Religious Institutions. 995. Churchdom.—W. church, -dom; ministry, apostleship, priesthood, prelacy, hierarchy, church government, Christendom, pale of the church. clerical-, sacerdotal-, episcopalian-, ultramontan-ism; Theocracy; eccle- siolog-y, -ist; priestcraft, odium theolor/icum. monach-ism, -v ; monasticism, monkhood. [Ecclesiasticaloffices and dignities] pontificate, primacy,archbishopric,$