monolatry

[Gr. monos alone, single, and latreia service, worship.] The worship of one God. "The religion of the Old Testament is no mere natural variety of Semetic monolatry."- W. Robertson Smith: Old Test. in Jewish Church, lect. x. scale.] mon-ô-lěp-is, s. [Pref. mono-, and Gr. lep is =a Zool.: A genus of Macrourous Crustaceans, akin to Por cell an a. lithos a stone.] A column or block formed of a mon-o-lith, s. [Gr. monos alone, single, and single stone. The term is applied to such erections as the obelisks of Egypt.