[ad. Gr. θεολατρεία worship of God, f. θεός God + λατρεία worship: see -LATRY.] The worship of a deity or deities.
1806. Edin. Rev., VII. 487. The distinction between herolatry and theolatry, or the sacred rites of heroes and the sacred rites of Gods, was perfectly well known in Greece.
1887. J. C. Morrison, Service of Man, 265. The worship of deities has passed into the service of man. Instead of Theolatry we have anthropolatry.
