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sronk@optonline.net The "Phrontistery" website, lists "arbrolatry," which is defined as "worship of start." Does anyone know where else "arbrolatry" might appear and can anyone provide an authoritative definition. I have no idea what "worship of start" might mean. 
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"arbrolatry"
It might be multiple typos for arborolatry and 'worship of trees'.
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googling, it turns up on a list of types of worship as worship of start, whatever the heck *that means!
-joe (I much prefer the adoration of finish) friday
edit: oops, I didn't see your def'n at first, but I'll leave this for my parenthetical - I can't find it in actual use anywhere.
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googling, it turns up on a list of types of worship as worship of start, whatever the heck *that means! Maybe it started as a typo on Phrontistery and got copied to other sites. I looked in my Liddell & Scott and found nothing that looked appropriate starting with αρβ and nothing at all starting with αρβρ. Edit: Wull, it looked OK in preview. That's sposed to be alpha rho beta and alpha rho beta rho, respectively. Harrumph!
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it looked OK in preview
I noticed that the site no longer seems to support Unicode in posts. Schade.
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I noticed the same thing with the posts on B and C (V and S)
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>Maybe it started as a typo on Phrontistery..
and which typo would that be?
-joe (the worship of tarts?) friday
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Here's one that fits the tree worshipping image:
[Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone. -Czeslaw Milosz, poet and novelist (1911-2004)] today's word and quote.
Subscribing to so many people's intentions not to wanna hurt anyone; even trees hurt sometimes when they fall over on some inconnu. The tree can't help it.
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>Maybe it started as a typo on Phrontistery..
and which typo would that be?
-joe (the worship of tarts?) friday The one(s) postulated by Nuncle z. Or either somehow a whole line got accidentally cut.
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uh huh. or astrolatry, the worship of stars.
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