Definition of "votaries" []

• Plural form of votary. (noun)

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• "Imagination under the banner of Science; and to lead her votaries from the looser analogies, which dress out the imagery of poetry, to the stricter ones which form the ratiocination of philosophy (v)."
• "Latin votaries humbly accepted a corrupt and remote version, from the Jews and Moors of Andalusia."
• "Moreover, the Bohemian had sung songs of worldly vanity and impure pleasures, he had derided the cord of Saint Francis, made jest of his miracles, and termed his votaries fools and lazy knaves."