paganishadj.

1587 F. Clement Petie Schole 40 I beshrew these lewde loue-bookes and Paganish playes.

1615 Bp. J. Hall Farewell Serm. in Recoll. Treat. 679 Not to hope for it, is paganish and brutish.

1676 R. Dixon Nature Two Test. 208 To use Rites is comely,..but to multiply them..is Jewish and Paganish.

1737 R. Challoner Catholick Christian Instructed Pref. p. xvii But the Pagans, it seems, pretended to Miracles, and therefore [according to Middleton] the Romish Religion which pretends to Miracles must needs be Paganish.

1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music 238 He would not suffer verse to be..sung as verse..because it was gay and paganish.

1836 R. M. Bird Sheppard Lee II. v. i. 64 Yesterday I did perceive him squeaking at a heathenish wind-instrument, called a flute, and thereupon he did avow an intention to try his hand at that more paganish thing of strings, called a fiddle.

1871 W. Black Daughter of Heth I. iii. 41 Variations, which he regarded as impudent and paganish.

1941 I. S. Cobb Exit Laughing v. 48 The window panes [of the church] were painted a numb cold gray, the idea, I take it, being to shut out the paganish sunshine.

1998 C. D. Johnson & V. E. Johnson Understanding the Crucible ii. 46 All the merry singing and dining associated with celebrating Christmas was considered paganish.

1589 E. Hayes in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 686 Those paganish regions.

1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered xii. 40 That sence which in Paganish writers is..vsuall.

1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. 31 All equally suffer; as much Paganish Infants, as Christian Rebels or Reuolts.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 204 Paganish and Idololatricall rites.

1718 F. Hutchinson Hist. Ess. conc. Witchcraft x. 132 Paganish and Popish Superstitions.

1756 A. Butler Lives Saints I. 475 Taraghe or Themoria..the principal seat of the Druids or priests and their paganish rites.

1894 F. R. Stockton Pomona's Trav. 51 If I was to meet the most paganish of heathens entering his temple with suitable humbleness I wouldn't hurt his feelings on the subject of his religion.

1952 C. D. MacDougall Understanding Public Opinion vi. 203 Exposés of the paganish origins of some rite which he considers sacred might cause someone to be less superstitious.

1832 W. Scott Betrothed (new ed.) xiii, in Waverley Novels XXXVII. 166 Mahound (so paganishly was the horse named) answered by plunging.