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heathenish, a.|ˈhiːðənɪʃ|
Also 6 heathnish, (etnyshe).
[OE. hǽðenisc = OHG. heidanisc, -inisc (G. heidnisch), ON. heiðneskr (Sw. hednisk, Da. hedensk). In modern use prob. a new formation: see -ish.]
1. Of or pertaining to the heathen. Now rare.
c893K. ælfred Oros. iii. iii. §1 Him man worhte anfiteatra, þæt mon mehte þone hæðeniscan pleᵹan þærinne don. 1550Bale Image Both. Ch. B iij, All her hethnyshe ceremonyes, supersticions, and sorceryes. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxviii. §2 The most eminent part both of Heathenish and Jewish seruice did consist in sacrifice. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. v. 167 The various Denominations of those Heathenish Deities. 1774J. Bryant Mythol. II. 475 The heathenish temples.
†2. = heathen a. 1. [Cf. Jewish.] Obs.
1535Coverdale 1 Kings Contents, Salomon displeaseth God with the loue of Heythenysh wemen. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 92 b, All nations and people, as well Heathenishe, as the Jewes also themselves. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. vi. 297 The heathenish philosopher Plutarch. 1718Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess Bristol (1887) I. 239 She was too good a christian to kill herself, as that heathenish Roman did. [1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 1941 A heathenish slave bought of a heathen.]
3. transf. and fig.
a. Heathen-like; unchristian, uncivilized, barbarous; unworthy of a Christian.
b. colloq. Abominable, disgusting, offensive, ‘beastly’. (Cf. Christian n. 3.)
1593Nashe Harvey-Greene Tractates Wks. (Grosart) II. 206 O Heathenish and Pagan Hexamiters. 1604Shakes. Oth. v. ii. 313 Most Heathenish, and most grosse. c1700T. Browne in Four C. Eng. Lett. 147 Tobacca, though it be a heathenish weed. 1718Freethinker No. 3 ⁋1, I may not appear a strange, heathenish Creature to the Ladies. 1859A. Cary Country Life (1876) 218 It was heathenish in the mowers to laugh. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt (1868) 39 That's a heathenish, Brutus-like sort of thing. 1882Mrs. Pitman Mission L. Greece & Pal. 251 The heathenish noises I now hear from a garden near by us. |