baalishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

Baalish (comparative more Baalish, superlative most Baalish)

1. Pertaining to Baal, Baalism, or the people who worshiped Baal.
   • 1662, John Owen, A Discourse concerning Liturgies, and their Imposition:

     So in the height of the degeneracy and apostasy of the Israelitish church, there were seven thousand who kept themselves pure from Baalish idolatry, of whom none were known to Elijah.

   • 1682, Nahum Tate, Absalom and Achitophel, Part II:

     Oft would he cry, when treasure he surpris'd, 'Tis Baalish gold in David's coin disguis'd.

   • 1898, Jacob Primmer, Jacob Primmer in Rome, page 397:

     The priests, who are possessed of awful lungs, made the chapel resound with their Baalish howlings, as they recited the litany for the dead.

   • 1983, Ward McAfee, A History of the World's Great Religions, page 12:

     Yet , during their Babylonian captivity , it is quite possible that Baalish symbolic thinking gave the defeated Jews the needed hope to survive as a people .

   • 2018, David Stacey, Prophetic Drama in the Old Testament, page 104:

     There is also the theory that Jezreel was a Baalish name and thus a proclamation of Israel's apostasy.