[f. BAAL + -ISM.] The worship of Baal; idolatry.
a. 1625. E. Chaloner, Six Serm. (1629), 38. Hath not superstition and Baalisme infected … our land?
1650. Fuller, Pisgah, IV. vii. 130. In the interim betwixt the Judges, Baalisme was first brought into Israel.
1862. Masson, in Macm. Mag., Aug., 325. Baits to idolatry and Baalism.
