Definition of "image-worship" [image-worship]

• The worship of images; as a term of reproach, the worship of idols; idolatry. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In the eighth century this abuse had arrived at such a pitch that Constantine Copronymus assembled, at Constantinople, a council of three hundred and twenty bishops, who anathematized image-worship, and declared it to be idolatry."
• "And the peculiar idolatry of Rome consists in image-worship, -- the worshipping of saints departed; which is a great part of their idolatry."
• "The idolatry that there began consisted in image-worship, in the worshipping of graven images; which was their idolatry that they set up with respect unto men departed, whom they worshipped by them."