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noun ˈpeɪɡ(ə)nˈpeɪɡən 1A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions. 异教徒（指非世界主要宗教的教徒） a Muslim majority had to live in close proximity to large communities of Christians and pagans Example sentencesExamples - The pagan insisted that divinity was in trees and in all of nature.
- Today, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and pagans from all races and sects do live side-by-side in varying degrees of conflict and co-operation.
- Knocking on wood is meant to bring good luck by enlisting the support of spirits who according to the ancient pagans Druids, lived in trees.
- Casebolt offered 20 labels, including pagan, atheist and agnostic in his Midwestern survey.
- While social factors may explain why increasing numbers of aristocrats adopted Christianity, they surely do not explain all conversions of pagans in the fourth century.
- In fact Aurelian was a pagan who set up a religion dedicated to Sol the sun god.
- I lean more toward the type of magic commonly associated with Wiccans and pagans, I don't have any particular religion just yet, but I found what works best for me.
- The author suggests that those who were not Jews, Christians, or Muslims, were all pagans.
- It is a common belief that witches and pagans are devil worshipers, but they are not.
- There was a strong opposition against the commemorating of the birthday by the early Christian scholars like Origin, on the ground that it is originally a custom of pagans and idolaters.
- But for pagans, magicians were the consultants of their day.
- My happiness, strengths, passive aggressive tendencies and insecurities are likely to be the same regardless of whether or not I currently identify as a pagan, atheist or Gnostic.
- She feels fulfilled by her mixture of pagan and Christian beliefs and sees no need for spells.
- I have noted that biblical religion opposed the supernaturalism of the ancient pagan.
- We have a good deal of information about the polemical and often bitter arguments Christians, Jews, and pagans had with one another in the early centuries.
- All of us - pagans, Christians, Muslims, Jews - must stand together when it comes to protecting our most sacred freedom.
- For the pagan and the Temple mystic, however, the world is not God's place; instead, God is the place of the world.
- Whether the spouses are Hindus or Muslims, Christians or Parsis, pagans or heathens, is wholly irrelevant in the application of these provisions.
Synonyms heathen, infidel, idolater/idolatress, atheist, non-theist, irreligious person, agnostic, sceptic, heretic, apostate archaic paynim - 1.1derogatory, dated A non-Christian.
〈旧，贬〉非基督教徒 Example sentencesExamples - Missionary zeal tends to offend the religious sensibilities of people by denouncing their native religions as false and pagan.
- 1.2 A member of a modern religious movement which seeks to incorporate beliefs or practices from outside the main world religions, especially nature worship.
Example sentencesExamples - Interacting with our fellow Pagans, we meet proud practitioners of every alternative lifestyle imaginable.
- Archaeologist Robert J Wallis and anthropologist Jenny Blain have been talking to modern British pagans about their beliefs and their interests in archaeological sites.
- Wiccans consider themselves witches, pagans or neo-pagans, and say their religion is based on respect for the earth, nature and the cycle of the seasons.
- According to one major study, Wiccans - one of several subgroups of pagans - made up the fastest-growing religion in the continental United States in the 1990s.
- As modern Pagans this is part of our situation, for we are not sheep.
- What can we learn from this and apply to our lives as modern Pagans?
- Although many modern pagans do not consider themselves to be witches both spiritual outlooks remain largely concerned with a naturalistic approach to spirituality.
- As an adult, I learned that there were modern Pagans.
adjective ˈpeɪɡ(ə)nˈpeɪɡən Relating to pagans or their beliefs. 异教徒的；异教的 异教神。 Example sentencesExamples - After all, there were Anglo-Saxon pagan gods to sing about as well.
- Persecution and absorption into popular Christianity served to cut short many pagan religious practices.
- Some tattoos are of course more obvious in their meaning, but a good number of others draw on mythology, pagan runes, organizational logos and acronyms.
- Excavation of the graves revealed an astonishing world of pagan beliefs.
- To the south, in England, heathenism still reigned in the various kingdoms ruled by the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons, and pagan gods were worshipped.
- As with many of our religious holidays, the traditions are a mixture of pagan, Jewish, Christian and other beliefs.
- I had a romantic notion that the roots of the Irish jig lay in far distant celtic, pagan roots, but it may be that it was just an import from 17th Century Continental Europe.
- Yet, it was at the hill of Tara that St. Patrick lit the first Paschal fire in 433, which local high king Laoighire regarded as defiance against his pagan gods.
- Most ancient pagan beliefs place more emphasis upon the non-uniformities of Nature than the regularities.
- Bealtaine, apart from being the Irish word for the month of May, was a festival in pagan Ireland celebrating Spring and heralding the arrival of Summer.
- It seems to me that regardless of whether you are an agnostic or an atheist, mainstream or pagan, religious or not there is still a dignity in death that we can all learn from.
- Following a preliminary inspection of the site, Mr Downe said he believed the ruins were part of a prehistoric roundabout that may have also been used for pagan ceremonies.
- Within the Christian celebration, however, may be traced the faint outline of the older and perhaps darker pagan festival which it replaced.
- The date had long been held sacred as Imbolg, the Celtic festival of Spring, but after Christianity arrived, Saint Brigid was honoured instead of the pagan gods.
- David Miles recalls finding Christian jewels in a cemetery of West Saxons newly converted from pagan beliefs.
- The author's treatment of the plagues is enlightened by his knowledge of ancient Egypt; he draws out their symbolic significance as a direct challenge to the pagan beliefs and gods of Egypt.
- I was just researching Lady Godiva to see if I can find out whether there are any pagan religious roots to the story, because I feel like there must surely be.
- Before Ukraine adopted Christianity in 988, the inhabitants believed in pagan gods who ruled over the sun, stars, and moon.
- Tobernalt is an ancient, pagan assembly place, approximately three miles east of Sligo town, near the shores of Lough Gill.
- They sent up a fragrance of sweet oil and illuminated the soft wall-paintings of pagan heroes and gods.
Synonyms heathen ungodly, irreligious, infidel, idolatrous, atheistic, non-theistic, agnostic, sceptical, faithless, impious rare paganistic, paganish, apostatical, nullifidian, heathenish, heathenistic
Derivativesadjective ˈpeɪɡ(ə)nɪʃˈpeɪɡ(ə)nɪʃ He takes our daughters to church every Sunday, and takes them to the Sunday school there, and they occasionally see me doing paganish things during the week (such as when I light incense on my altar or put a food offering in the bowl). Example sentencesExamples - Next, I tried to be paganish, figuring that I never fit in with any other religion, so maybe this one would work.
- The Puritans banned Christmas Eve and the day as too paganish because they were celebrated until the era of the Victorian Christmas tree (c. 1850) as wild party occasions.
verb ˈpeɪɡ(ə)nʌɪzˈpeɪɡəˌnaɪz [with object]Make pagan in character or form. the Church adopted pagan festivals without paganizing the Gospel Example sentencesExamples - ‘It's pretty strange how people Christianized pagan traditions and now are paganizing Christian traditions,’ he mused.
- Brownlow seems right in suggesting that ‘the new Renaissance English style was too closely associated with either a Protestant or a paganizing humanism for a recusant writer to adopt it, especially a Jesuit poet.’
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin paganus 'villager, rustic', from pagus 'country district'. Latin paganus also meant 'civilian', becoming, in Christian Latin, 'heathen' (i.e. one not enrolled in the army of Christ). In Latin paganus originally meant ‘of the country, rustic’, and also ‘civilian, non-military’. Around the 4th century ad, it developed the sense ‘non-Christian, heathen’. One theory is that belief in the ancient gods lingered on in the rural villages after Christianity had been generally accepted in the towns and cities of the Roman Empire; another focuses on the ‘civilian’ sense, and points out that early Christians called themselves ‘soldiers of Christ’, making non-Christians into ‘civilians’. A third view compares heathens to people outside the civilized world of towns and cities, belonging to the countryside. Curiously, it was not uncommon to find Pagan as a given name, a custom that has recently been revived. The Latin root paganus came from pagus ‘country district’, which is also the source of peasant. Heathen is similar in meaning and development, coming from a word meaning ‘inhabiting open country’ which is related to heath. Both these words are Germanic and were already in use in Old English.
proper nounpəˈɡɑːnpəˈɡän A town in Burma, situated on the River Irrawaddy south-east of Mandalay. It is the site of an ancient city, founded in about AD 849, which was the capital of a powerful Buddhist dynasty from the 11th to the end of the 13th centuries.
nounˈpāɡənˈpeɪɡən 1A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions. 异教徒（指非世界主要宗教的教徒） Example sentencesExamples - She feels fulfilled by her mixture of pagan and Christian beliefs and sees no need for spells.
- It is a common belief that witches and pagans are devil worshipers, but they are not.
- While social factors may explain why increasing numbers of aristocrats adopted Christianity, they surely do not explain all conversions of pagans in the fourth century.
- The author suggests that those who were not Jews, Christians, or Muslims, were all pagans.
- My happiness, strengths, passive aggressive tendencies and insecurities are likely to be the same regardless of whether or not I currently identify as a pagan, atheist or Gnostic.
- Knocking on wood is meant to bring good luck by enlisting the support of spirits who according to the ancient pagans Druids, lived in trees.
- I have noted that biblical religion opposed the supernaturalism of the ancient pagan.
- We have a good deal of information about the polemical and often bitter arguments Christians, Jews, and pagans had with one another in the early centuries.
- There was a strong opposition against the commemorating of the birthday by the early Christian scholars like Origin, on the ground that it is originally a custom of pagans and idolaters.
- The pagan insisted that divinity was in trees and in all of nature.
- Casebolt offered 20 labels, including pagan, atheist and agnostic in his Midwestern survey.
- Today, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and pagans from all races and sects do live side-by-side in varying degrees of conflict and co-operation.
- I lean more toward the type of magic commonly associated with Wiccans and pagans, I don't have any particular religion just yet, but I found what works best for me.
- Whether the spouses are Hindus or Muslims, Christians or Parsis, pagans or heathens, is wholly irrelevant in the application of these provisions.
- In fact Aurelian was a pagan who set up a religion dedicated to Sol the sun god.
- All of us - pagans, Christians, Muslims, Jews - must stand together when it comes to protecting our most sacred freedom.
- But for pagans, magicians were the consultants of their day.
- For the pagan and the Temple mystic, however, the world is not God's place; instead, God is the place of the world.
Synonyms heathen, infidel, idolater, idolatress, atheist, non-theist, irreligious person, agnostic, sceptic, heretic, apostate - 1.1dated, derogatory A non-Christian.
〈旧，贬〉非基督教徒 Example sentencesExamples - Missionary zeal tends to offend the religious sensibilities of people by denouncing their native religions as false and pagan.
- 1.2 An adherent of neopaganism.
新异教主义者 Example sentencesExamples - According to one major study, Wiccans - one of several subgroups of pagans - made up the fastest-growing religion in the continental United States in the 1990s.
- Archaeologist Robert J Wallis and anthropologist Jenny Blain have been talking to modern British pagans about their beliefs and their interests in archaeological sites.
- Although many modern pagans do not consider themselves to be witches both spiritual outlooks remain largely concerned with a naturalistic approach to spirituality.
- As an adult, I learned that there were modern Pagans.
- Wiccans consider themselves witches, pagans or neo-pagans, and say their religion is based on respect for the earth, nature and the cycle of the seasons.
- As modern Pagans this is part of our situation, for we are not sheep.
- Interacting with our fellow Pagans, we meet proud practitioners of every alternative lifestyle imaginable.
- What can we learn from this and apply to our lives as modern Pagans?
adjectiveˈpāɡənˈpeɪɡən Relating to pagans. 异教神。 Example sentencesExamples - The date had long been held sacred as Imbolg, the Celtic festival of Spring, but after Christianity arrived, Saint Brigid was honoured instead of the pagan gods.
- The author's treatment of the plagues is enlightened by his knowledge of ancient Egypt; he draws out their symbolic significance as a direct challenge to the pagan beliefs and gods of Egypt.
- Within the Christian celebration, however, may be traced the faint outline of the older and perhaps darker pagan festival which it replaced.
- David Miles recalls finding Christian jewels in a cemetery of West Saxons newly converted from pagan beliefs.
- As with many of our religious holidays, the traditions are a mixture of pagan, Jewish, Christian and other beliefs.
- They sent up a fragrance of sweet oil and illuminated the soft wall-paintings of pagan heroes and gods.
- I had a romantic notion that the roots of the Irish jig lay in far distant celtic, pagan roots, but it may be that it was just an import from 17th Century Continental Europe.
- Tobernalt is an ancient, pagan assembly place, approximately three miles east of Sligo town, near the shores of Lough Gill.
- To the south, in England, heathenism still reigned in the various kingdoms ruled by the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons, and pagan gods were worshipped.
- Some tattoos are of course more obvious in their meaning, but a good number of others draw on mythology, pagan runes, organizational logos and acronyms.
- After all, there were Anglo-Saxon pagan gods to sing about as well.
- Following a preliminary inspection of the site, Mr Downe said he believed the ruins were part of a prehistoric roundabout that may have also been used for pagan ceremonies.
- Excavation of the graves revealed an astonishing world of pagan beliefs.
- Persecution and absorption into popular Christianity served to cut short many pagan religious practices.
- Most ancient pagan beliefs place more emphasis upon the non-uniformities of Nature than the regularities.
- Before Ukraine adopted Christianity in 988, the inhabitants believed in pagan gods who ruled over the sun, stars, and moon.
- Yet, it was at the hill of Tara that St. Patrick lit the first Paschal fire in 433, which local high king Laoighire regarded as defiance against his pagan gods.
- I was just researching Lady Godiva to see if I can find out whether there are any pagan religious roots to the story, because I feel like there must surely be.
- It seems to me that regardless of whether you are an agnostic or an atheist, mainstream or pagan, religious or not there is still a dignity in death that we can all learn from.
- Bealtaine, apart from being the Irish word for the month of May, was a festival in pagan Ireland celebrating Spring and heralding the arrival of Summer.
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin paganus ‘villager, rustic’, from pagus ‘country district’. Latin paganus also meant ‘civilian’, becoming, in Christian Latin, ‘heathen’ (i.e. one not enrolled in the army of Christ). proper nounpəˈɡän Ruins in Burma (Myanmar), located on the Irrawaddy River southeast of Mandalay. It is the site of an ancient city that was the capital of a powerful Buddhist dynasty from the 11th to the 13th centuries.
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