FromLatinadōrātor andFrenchadorateur.
adorator (pluraladorators)
- (uncommon)Synonym ofadorer.
c.1630,I. B. C.,A Looking Glasse for Nevv Reformers. Ansvvering Paul Rainalds, Scotishmans Letter Persvvading His Brother to Forsake the True Ancient Catholike and Roman Religion., Lyon[actually Bordeaux?]: […] Thomas Stone […],→OCLC,page406:[I]f vve hold & proue that ther is no bread in our Euchariſtie, & Refor. can not shevv the contrary, vvith vvhat face can they reproch vnto vs that vve areadorators of bread?
1799,James Madison, “[Journals of the Conventions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia, from the Year 1785 to the Present Day.] An Address to the Members of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia.”, inFrancis L[ister] Hawks,Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the United States of America, volume I, New York, N.Y.: […] Harper & Brothers, […], published1836,→OCLC,page79, column 2:Hasten, I entreat you, to cause your churches to assume an appearance more worthy ofadorators of the beneficent Parent of the universe;[…]
1852 February 7, W[illiam] Grilliers, transl., “Henri Herz.—Reminiscences of His Travels in America. (Translated from ‘La France Musicale,’ […])”, inThe Musical World, volume XXX, number 6, London: Myers & Co.,page85, column 1:[H]umbleadorators of harmony, they are content with the concerts which travelling artists occasionally present them.
1852 April 21,[Lajos] Kossuth, quotee, “Kossuth in Jersey City. Enthusiastic Reception. Speech to the Citizens, &c.”, inNew-York Daily Times, volume I, number185, New York, N.Y.:Raymond, Jones & Co.,→OCLC,front page, column 2:Yeadorators of theDollar, to which you apply the qualification of “Almighty,” which only belongs to God—yeadorators of the idol “Profit”—you are not the men to insult the honor of a disinterested patriot,[…]
1898,Gustave Schlegel, “[Bulletin Critique [Critical Bulletin].]The religious system of China, byJ[an] J[akob] M[aria] De Groot, Book I, part III, The Grave (second half). […]”, in Gustave Schlegel,Henri Cordier, editors,通報 Tʻoung pao: Archives pour servir à l’étude de l’histoire, des langues, la géographie et de l’ethnographie de l’Asie Orientale […] [Tʻoung Pao: Archives for Use in the Study of the History, Languages, Geography, and Ethnography of East Asia […]], volume IX, Leiden: […] E[vert] J[an] Brill,page77, column 2:Ibn Batutah, the arabian traveller, nearly contemporary withMarco Polo, says: »The Chinese are infidels,adorators of idols, and theyburn their dead after the fashion of the Indians”.
1924, A. Grignard, “man’nā”, inAn Oraon-English Dictionary in the Roman Character with Numerous Phrases Illustrative of Sense and Idiom and Notes on Tribal Customs, Beliefs, Etc. (Anthropos: Collection internationale de monographies linguistiques [Anthropos: International Collection of Linguistic Monographs]), St. Gabriel-Mödling: Administration of “Anthropos”, […]; Calcutta, Bengal Presidency: […] [T]he Catholic Orphan Press […]; Vienna: Mechitharisten-Buchdruckerei,→OCLC,page481, column 1:Dharmesin man’ur, theadorators of God.
1928,Jivanji Jamshedji Modi, “The Birth-Place ofZoroaster”, inCama Oriental Institute Papers (Papers Contributed to the Journal of theK[harshedji] R[ustomji] Cama Oriental Institute, Bombay), Bombay, Bombay Presidency: The British India Press, section XIII ([H] Urumiâh. In What Part of Urumiâh Was the Home of Zoroaster Situated? In Âmvi.),page231:We read inYaqout[al-Hamawi]: “Shiz—District of Azerbaidgân of which Moghaīrah ben Schâbah took possession by capitulation. Its real name in Persian isDjezn (جزن) orGuezn, of which the Arabs have madeSchiz. They believe that it is the country of Zeraduscht (Zoroastre), the prophet of theadorators of fire. The chief place of this district is Ourmiah.”
1933 March,J[ean] Przyluski, “Satvant, Sātvata and Nāsatya”, in Narendra Nath Law, editor,The Indian Historical Quarterly, volume IX, number 1, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency,page90:The Sātvatas of the Epic and Purāņas are especially known asadorators of Bhagavat.
1940, Jamshedji Maneckji Unvala, “Colophons of Manuscripts in the University Library of Copenhagen”, inCollection of Colophons of Manuscripts Bearing on Zoroastrianism in Some Libraries of Europe, Bombay, Bombay Province: […] The Trustees of the Funds and Properties of the Parsi Punchayet, footnote 2,page129:[James]Darmesteter translates the Av. quotation as follows: “It is the religion, very destructive to Añra Mainyu, which breaks to pieces theadorators of the daêvas, men who live in error.”
1948 April, “The Passing Show”, inL[eo] H[erbert] Lehmann, editor,The Converted Catholic Magazine, volume 9, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Christ’s Mission,page122, column 1:Two Vatican Congregations—the Consistorial Congregation and the Sacred Congregation of the Affairs of Religious—have commanded the 125,000 priests and members of religious orders in Italy to vote. According to a Rome dispatch of last February 24 to the N. Y. ‘Times,’ these include “Discalced Carmelites, theAdorators of the Holy Sacrament and Sisters of Holy Saviour, who live a completely secluded life.”
1949, Jacques de Marquette, “Buddhist Mysticism: The Quest for Enlightenment”, inIntroduction to Comparative Mysticism, New York, N.Y.:Philosophical Library,→OCLC,page88:On the contrary the theistic sects, particularly theadorators ofVishnu, notably under the form of hisKrishna avatar, hold that man may be led to salvation by the operations of the redeeming grace of a savior.
1956 May 31, “Italy Displays Good Sense”, in Ralph E[dward] Heinzen, editor,The Belleville Times, volume31, number46, Belleville, N.J.: The Belleville News Corporation, published 1956 June 1, second section,page two, column 2:The Italian election results reflected both the Democratic determination of the Italian electorate to remain a free and independent people, linked politically and militarily to the West, and the discomfort of many old-line Communists who had beenadorators of[Joseph] Stalin and who now, since the Kremlin’s flip-flop, were uncertain of its meaning and stayed away from the polls.- Published on 31 May inThe Nutley Sun as “Italy Displays Her Good Sense” (quoted inCongressional Record).
1967,Alfred Owen Aldridge, “Practical Moralist”, inBenjamin Franklin and Nature’s God, Durham, N.C.:Duke University Press,→LCCN,pages56–57:A few years after Franklin’s death, a society of French deists made a précis ofThe Way to Wealth, gave it the titleThe Moral Thoughts of Franklin, and published it in a compilation of works of religious and moral contemplation,The Religious Year of the Theophilanthropists, orAdorators of God and Friends of Men.
1987, Roger Price, “Religion”, inA Social History of Nineteenth-Century France, New York, N.Y.: Holmes & Meier,→ISBN, part 3 (Social Institutions),page271:There were also two sections of theAdorators of the Holy Sacrament.
1990, P[etrus] F[ranciscus] M[aria] Fontaine, “[The Sasanian Empire] A brother kept at bay”, inThe Light and the Dark: A Cultural History of Dualism, volume V (Dualism in Ancient Iran, India, and China), Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben,→ISBN, chapter I (Persica Postalexandrica),page16:Remaining himself 'theadorator of Mazdah the god', and 'the most glorious of theadorators of Ormuzd', that is remaining a faithful adherent of the old Iranian religion, he took to persecuting the Christians in the most cruel way.
2004, Franklin Perkins, “Interpreting China”, inLeibniz and China: A Commerce of Light, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,page183:Leibniz himself suggests at times that natural theology is fairly widespread, as he writes to[Joachim] Bouvet, “I have always had a tendency to believe that the ancient Chinese, as the ancient Arabs (witness the book of Job) and perhaps the ancient Celts, (that is to say Germans and Gaulians) have been far from idolatry, and ratheradorators of a sovereign principle” (W 189).
2005, Joseph Azzi, translated by Maurice Saliba, “Islam before Islam-Nosrania Sectarianism in Islam”, in David Bentley, editor,The Priest & The Prophet: The Christian Priest,Waraqa Ibn Nawfal’s, Profound Influence UponMuhammad, The Prophet of Islam, Los Angeles, Calif.: The Pen Publishers,→ISBN,page61:Itinerant priests, “adorators” of God, would have a profound influence on the young Muhammad and his subsequent ministry.
2020 [1980s?], Frater R.[pseudonym], “Meditations on the Star”, in Jon Lange, editor,The Dark Work: The Historical Account of the Cult of the Hidden God, with Papers and Letters from the Archives, 3rd edition, Kerygma Press,→ISBN, part 2 (Collected Papers and Documents from the Archives),page221:For they are blind, / Let the blind then lead the blind! / I despise them, theadorators of the false / For I am only that which is real, / All else is a curse, mymaya, / But it is my way to know me.
Borrowed fromPolishadorator.
- IPA(key): /a.dɔˈra.tɔr/
- Rhymes:-atɔr
- Syllabification:a‧do‧ra‧tor
adorator m pers (female equivalentadoratórka)
- adorer,admirer,wooer(one with romantic interests)
- Synonyms:wielbicél,(colloquial)nadskakiwajk
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “adorator”, inSłownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi[1]
- “adorator”, inInternetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby,2022
Fromadōrō +-tor.
adōrātor m (genitiveadōrātōris,feminineadōrātrīx);third declension
- worshiper /worshipper
Third-declension noun.
adōrātor
- second/third-personsingularfuturepassiveimperative ofadōrō
- “adorator”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- adorator inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Learned borrowing fromLatinadōrātor.[1][2] Bysurface analysis,adorować +-ator. First attested in 1745.[3]
- IPA(key): /a.dɔˈra.tɔr/
- Rhymes:-atɔr
- Syllabification:a‧do‧ra‧tor
adorator m pers (female equivalentadoratorka,related adjectiveadoratorski)
- (literary)adorer,admirer,wooer(person with romantic interests)
- Synonyms:absztyfikant,amant,fatygant,kawaler,wielbiciel
- namolnyadorator ―clingyadorer
- natrętnyadorator ―intrusiveadorer
- tajemniczyadorator ―secretadorer
- anonimowyadorator ―anonymousadorer
- wianuszekadoratorów ―a chain ofadorers
- tłumadoratorów ―a crowd ofadorer
- (religion)adorer,worshiper(person who adores God)
- wiernyadorator ―faithfuladorer
- adorer,admirer(person who enjoys something)
- Synonym:wielbiciel
- adorator inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- adorator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “adorator”, inSłownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “adorator”, inSłownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz,A. Kryński,W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “adorator”, inSłownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 9
Borrowed fromFrenchadorateur.
adorator m (pluraladoratori,feminine equivalentadoratoare)
- admirer,adorer,worshiper
- IPA(key): /adǒraːtor/
- Hyphenation:a‧do‧ra‧tor
adòrātor m (Cyrillic spellingадо̀ра̄тор)
- (rare)adorer
- Synonym:obožavatelj
