pagan-likeadj.adv.

1608 H. Clapham Errour Left Hand 34 The formes of them be Pagan-like.

1668 H. More Divine Dialogues: Two Last Dial. iv. 192 A wicked Apostasie into Pagan-like Superstitions.

a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 275 His Constitution too of Frankincense Cast on the Altars Pagan like.

1843 C. F. Hoffman Wild Scenes in Forest & Prairie II. 187 In framing a Pagan-like appeal for the grape, he had a prophetic eye to the part which this same Puritan drink of switchel might play in the great temperance movement of these more enlightened times.

1854 J. Torrey tr. A. Neander Gen. Hist. Christian Relig. & Church (new ed.) II. 333 The church-teachers..certainly fostered..the extravagancies and manifestly pagan-like offshoots of which they were contending against.

1952 Speculum 27 45 Diverse and contrasting attitudes—secular and clerical, popular and seignorial, Christian and pagan-like.

1998 Knoxville (Tennessee) News-Sentinel (Nexis) 31 May t4 The play strives to merge symbols of an old, Celtic world, a world of magic and pagan-like leanings, with that of a more Christian, dogmatic approach to living.