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paganish, a.|ˈpeɪgənɪʃ|
[f. pagan + -ish1.]
†1. Of or belonging to pagans; pagan. Obs.
1583Hayes Narr. Gilbert's Voy. in Hakluyt's Voy. (1809–12) III. 192 Those Paganish regions. 1599Broughton's Lett. xii. 40 That sence which in Paganish writers is..vsuall. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 204 Paganish and Idololatricall rites. 1718F. Hutchinson Witchcraft 167 Paganish and Popish Superstitions.
2. Resembling or befitting a pagan; of pagan character or quality; heathenish.
1613Bp. Hall Serm. Rev. xxi. 3, 4 Wks. 1837 V. 70 Not to hope for it, is paganish and brutish. 1676R. Dixon Two Testaments 208 To use Rites is comely,..but to multiply them..is Jewish and Paganish. 1795W. Mason Ch. Mus. 238 He would not suffer verse to be..sung as verse..because it was gay and paganish. 1871Black Daughter Heth (1876) 24 Variations, which he regarded as impudent and paganish.
Hence ˈpaganishly adv.
1825Scott Betrothed xiii, Mahound (so paganishly was the horse named) answered by plunging. |