Pagan
['peɪg(ə)n] or ['pegən]
Definition
(noun.) a person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion (not a Christian or Muslim or Jew).
Editor: Melinda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew.
(n.) Of or pertaining to pagans; relating to the worship or the worshipers of false goods; heathen; idolatrous, as, pagan tribes or superstitions.
Checker: Stan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Heathen, gentile, idolater.
a. Heathenish, heathen.
Typist: Marcus
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Heathen, idolater, Gentile
ANT:Believer, Christian
SYN:Heathenish, idolatrous
ANT:Christian
Checked by Gerald
Definition
n. a heathen: one who does not worship the true God.—adj. heathenish: pertaining to the worship of false gods.—v.t. Pā′ganise to render pagan or heathen: to convert to paganism.—adj. Pā′ganish heathenish.—n. Pā′ganism heathenism: the beliefs and practices of the heathen.
Typist: Morton
Examples
- These pagan Saxons and English of the mainland and their kindred from Denmark and Norway are the Danes and Northmen of our national histories. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- God forbid, said Lucas Beaumanoir, that Jew or Pagan should impeach us of injustice! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It is eighty feet high and is fronted like some fantastic pagan temple. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- One is the profanation of a temple of our faith--the other only the profanation of a pagan one. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Is that not rather pagan? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- You would describe yourself as a mere pagan philosopher, I said. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The defiant and pagan bonnet-grec had vanished: bare-headed, he came upon us, carrying a Christian hat in his gloved hand. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Another in fluence tending to check the advance of the sciences was the clash between Christ ian and Pagan ideals. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But shall white men and Christians act like a pagan negro? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It is possible that the influence of a return to classic Greek pagan literature in bringing about this changed mind has been overestimated. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In Mercia in particular the pagan Northmen found sympathy and help. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The myth is not one of the outgrown crudities of our pagan ancestors. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Ah, we all worship those old pagan gods, who were but the incarnation of our own desires. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The name of this old pagan's god was Compound Interest. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If Christianity was a rebellious and destructive force towards a pagan Rome, it was a unifying and organizing force within its own communion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Ay, truly, said the hermit, and many a hundred of pagans did he baptize there, but I never heard that he drank any of it. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Christians, Pagans, Jews, as well as Moslems, were employed in the government service. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As the Christian propaganda of Charlemagne swept towards the shores of the North and Baltic seas, the pagans were driven to the sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No, no, Mr Roylands, we are not pagans, in spite of the presence of the gods, he said, with a smile. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Edited by Gertrude