astrolater means One who worships the stars. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Why this word is great
ASTROLATER — [Noun] One who worships the stars as divine beings. From the combining form astro- (from Greek astron, "star") and -later (from Greek latreia, "worship"), modeled after idolater. Unlike the astrologer, who charts influence, or the astronomer, who measures light, the astrolater offers devotion. It is the chilled brow pressed to ancient stone beneath the sprawl of the Milky Way, the careful alignment of a temple to a solstice sunrise, the trembling hand tracing a constellation not as a diagram of gas and void but as the very countenance of a god—the oldest and loneliest piety directed at sources of light that died millennia before the prayer began.
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- One who worships the stars.“Moreover, the modern argument in favour of the supernatural origin of the Christian religion, drawn from its suitableness to our needs and its divine response to our aspirations, must be admitted by every candid person resorting to it to be of exactly equal force in the mouth of a Mahometan or a fire-worshipper or an astrolater.”