ignicolist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From igni- + Latin colere (“to worship”) + -ist.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ignicolist (plural ignicolists)
- (rare) A worshiper of fire.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 88:
- Van was delighted and shocked to distinguish, right there in the inky shrubbery, Ada in her long nightgown passing by with a lighted candle in one hand and a shoe in the other as if stealing after the belated ignicolists.