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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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They have it correct elsewhere on their site.
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I pointed out the error to Joe Court, webmaster of the Wakefield website (the other site to list it) and got this in return: "The correct entry for "worship of trees" is dendrolatry, which is already listed. I have removed the entry for arbrolatry[sic] since on checking with the Oxford English Dictionary the word doesn't exist." link huh, or, now there's a narrow view. (although, looking at the various OneLook entries, the ultimate source seems to be WordNet. link )
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Did you point out to him that he has [i]arborolatry elsewhere on the site?
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Did you point out to him that he has [i]arborolatry elsewhere on the site? you referring to The Phrontistery? I wan't referring to that.
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you referring to The Phrontistery?
Yeah, Phrontistery. How'd Wakefield get into the mix? Aside from the fact that they had the same booboo. Now the question is who stole the booboo from whom? You gonna rattle Chrisomalis's cage? My reconstruction of the goof is that there was an entry: Arborolatry - the worship of trees and another: Astrolatry - the worship of stars They got conflated by a slip that deleted the material in red below: Arb orolatry - the worship of trees
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*represents any arbitrary intervening material. The extra T giving us starts from stars was a simple case of fumble fingers, the T being right next to the R on the keyboard.
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Now the question is who stole the booboo from whom?
Maybe arbrolatry is a dord for copyright purposes.
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>How'd Wakefield get into the mix? that's the other site (as I parenthesized above (and I provided a link to it, too)). is a followup msg, Joe Court(!) claimed he disincluded arborolatry because he found no evidence of British usage. notwithstanding evidence to the contrary: link - joe (the contrarian) friday
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The correct entry for "worship of trees" is dendrolatry
Ignoring the conceptual argument of whether there can ever be a "correct entry", I'd always associated dendro with branch rather than tree. Is this wrong?
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ICLIU, but, IIRC, dendrochronology was an archeological dating technique that involved comparing tree rings.
A few moments later:
While some words in dendr- have meanings that involve the concept of branches, the Greek dendron means 'tree'. This may have something to do with the fact that trees branch.
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Yes, that's right. The archeological dating technique that involves comparing tree rings of the red,purple, pink or white flowering rhodondendron is called rhodondendrochronology.
As a dendrolatry sectary I advise never to burn any part of the elderberry tree. Fierce bad luck.
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We also get tree, true, trust, betrothal, Druid, dour, and obdurate, amongst others, from the PIE root * deru- 'tree' ( link).
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Honestly zmjezhd, tree has very interesting roots.
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As a dendrolatry sectary I advise never to burn any part of the elderberry tree. Fierce bad luck. Hence the immortal insult "...your father was a hamster and your mother smelled of elderberries..."
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Honestly zmjezhd, tree has very interesting roots. Best that one leaves that one alone as we don't need to branch off in that direction. Yew know what wood happen were we to plant these dendrological puns in our corporate brain (touch wood)!
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Yes, but it has. I found the word 'trog' amongst them. Still alive and kicking in Dutch.
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