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Definition of Druid in English: Druidnoun ˈdruːɪdˈdruəd 1A priest, magician, or soothsayer in the ancient Celtic religion. Example sentencesExamples - In their own way, the Druids were very religious.
- The Druids were the priests or ministers of religion among the ancient Celtic nations in Gaul, Britain, and Germany.
- The Celt's priestly caste, the Druids, has become a part of modern folklore.
- Even in very early times the position of Ferns led to it being a gathering place for ancient Druids ceremonies and the meeting place of some of the chieftains.
- I think the world needs the witches, the shamans, the Wiccans, the Druids and the ritual magicians.
- The Druids, the high priests of the Celts, spent twenty years learning the traditions and oral lessons.
- I formed ideals of my own, read everything I could about religions like Buddhism and books on the ancient Druids.
- 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.
- Indeed there are various stories and legends, which convey a sense of peace and harmony between the first Christian settlers in Britain and the Druids, the Celtic priesthood.
- Subsequent neopagans took their inspiration from the Druids, from ancient Egypt, from the Vikings, from Rome.
- Being the only depiction of organized Celtic religion in pre-Roman Europe that historians possess, the Druids have become a modern focal point of popular interest.
- It is said that the ancient Druids occasionally performed human sacrifice under certain extreme situations.
- Others think that the Celtic Druids and the Nordic tribes may have had some influence.
- The Druids, whose Stonehenge temples can be seen in England, regarded mistletoe with reverence and used to burn it in sacrifice during the solstitial festivities.
- The exchange of a kiss under the mistletoe is linked back to the ancient times of the Druids.
- The Druids would cut the mistletoe that grew on the oak tree and give it as a blessing.
- The Druids in England worshiped the evergreen because it had eternal life, it did not brown and die in the winter.
- He was I believe a friend of Isaac Newton, and the oldest records he could find were Roman records, and the Romans said that when they arrived in the area, there were Druids there.
- It is a little known fact that the great Gothic Cathedrals were built over the sacred wells and groves of the earlier Druids.
- Throughout his later life he became obsessed with the romantic idealization of the Druids and the religion of the ancient British.
Synonyms sorcerer, sorceress, witch, wizard, warlock, enchanter, enchantress, necromancer, spellcaster, shaman, witch doctor, magus, alchemist - 1.1 A member of a present-day group claiming to represent or be derived from this religion.
Example sentencesExamples - As Wiccans, Druids, conscious Pagans and Medicine Women we're each and every one of us teachers, intentionally setting examples and sharing the lessons and insights of our lives.
- Dames's approach to the Avebury monuments resonates well with many Pagans, especially Goddess worshippers and Druids.
- No wonder they are highly thought of by Druids and Pagans.
- Wiccans, Druids and other pagan practitioners will be there to celebrate their faith.
- The god of this world is worshipped by many Wiccans, Witches, Druids, other Neo-Pagans, and even theistic and spiritual Satanists.
- This is especially obvious when they are dealing with Wiccans, Druids, or other ‘pagan’ religions.
Derivatives adjective druːˈɪdɪkdruˈɪdɪk Unfortunately it tells it with little respect for historical fact, and incorporates enough Druidic magic into the plot to qualify as a sword and sorcery fantasy. Example sentencesExamples - Mistletoe, however, was not tolerated by the church, for it was long associated with Druidic pagan rites, including links to human sacrifice.
- Hence the Celtic designs on Irish crosses that closely resembled Druidic glyphs or Haitian Voodoo rituals that fuse the worship of Catholic saints with that of African Loas.
- Captain Britain wasn't an ersatz copy of an American hero any more; the authors interpolated him into a more densely-realised realm of Druidic myths.
- The oaks were supposedly the remnants of a primeval forest, site of Druidic rites, home to Gallic tribes, and emblems of justice-dispensing monarchs like Saint Louis.
adjective druːˈɪdɪk(ə)ldruˈɪdɪk(ə)l On one of the hills on the estate is a monolith known as St Augustine's stone, which is said to have been in some way connected with Druidical worship, while Drewton itself is a corruption of the name ‘Drewid's Town’. Example sentencesExamples - My paternal Grandfather was a follower of Druidism, in fact, highly placed in Druidical circles in the last century.
- I felt as if I had stumbled back several millennia into some distant Druidical ritual.
- In the poems of Ossian we have, if not the actual productions of Druidical times, what may be considered faithful representations of the songs of the Bards.
- In the process, the excavators revealed a circle of stones amongst a mass of ashes, described by Lawrence as the remains of an ‘Altar of Sacrifice or Worship, and used at some time for Druidical rites’.
noun ˈdruːɪdɪz(ə)mˈdruəˌdɪzəm Actually there was a body of popular superstitions and observances which came from a deeper and older source than Druidism, and was destined to long outlive it. Example sentencesExamples - If Druidism winds up being the true faith I don't want to have to explain why I ever kicked a tree.
- I think I mentioned Druidism, and that is basically what we are talking about here.
- When thinking of Celtic religion, the first thing that comes to ones mind is generally Druidism, and maybe even Stonehenge.
- As I have pointed out, such a philosophy - animism - is not dissimilar to the beliefs of Druidism, which is a set of religious beliefs from Western Europe and Britain around the time of the life of Christ.
Origin From Latin druidae, druides (plural), from Gaulish; related to Irish draoidh 'magician, sorcerer'. Definition of Druid in US English: Druidnounˈdruədˈdro͞oəd 1A priest, magician, or soothsayer in the ancient Celtic religion. Example sentencesExamples - It is said that the ancient Druids occasionally performed human sacrifice under certain extreme situations.
- In their own way, the Druids were very religious.
- I think the world needs the witches, the shamans, the Wiccans, the Druids and the ritual magicians.
- The Celt's priestly caste, the Druids, has become a part of modern folklore.
- The Druids, whose Stonehenge temples can be seen in England, regarded mistletoe with reverence and used to burn it in sacrifice during the solstitial festivities.
- Being the only depiction of organized Celtic religion in pre-Roman Europe that historians possess, the Druids have become a modern focal point of popular interest.
- Throughout his later life he became obsessed with the romantic idealization of the Druids and the religion of the ancient British.
- The Druids would cut the mistletoe that grew on the oak tree and give it as a blessing.
- The Druids were the priests or ministers of religion among the ancient Celtic nations in Gaul, Britain, and Germany.
- Subsequent neopagans took their inspiration from the Druids, from ancient Egypt, from the Vikings, from Rome.
- I formed ideals of my own, read everything I could about religions like Buddhism and books on the ancient Druids.
- Indeed there are various stories and legends, which convey a sense of peace and harmony between the first Christian settlers in Britain and the Druids, the Celtic priesthood.
- He was I believe a friend of Isaac Newton, and the oldest records he could find were Roman records, and the Romans said that when they arrived in the area, there were Druids there.
- Even in very early times the position of Ferns led to it being a gathering place for ancient Druids ceremonies and the meeting place of some of the chieftains.
- The Druids in England worshiped the evergreen because it had eternal life, it did not brown and die in the winter.
- The Druids, the high priests of the Celts, spent twenty years learning the traditions and oral lessons.
- The exchange of a kiss under the mistletoe is linked back to the ancient times of the Druids.
- Others think that the Celtic Druids and the Nordic tribes may have had some influence.
- 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.
- It is a little known fact that the great Gothic Cathedrals were built over the sacred wells and groves of the earlier Druids.
Synonyms sorcerer, sorceress, witch, wizard, warlock, enchanter, enchantress, necromancer, spellcaster, shaman, witch doctor, magus, alchemist - 1.1 A member of a present-day group claiming to represent or be derived from this religion.
Example sentencesExamples - Dames's approach to the Avebury monuments resonates well with many Pagans, especially Goddess worshippers and Druids.
- As Wiccans, Druids, conscious Pagans and Medicine Women we're each and every one of us teachers, intentionally setting examples and sharing the lessons and insights of our lives.
- No wonder they are highly thought of by Druids and Pagans.
- This is especially obvious when they are dealing with Wiccans, Druids, or other ‘pagan’ religions.
- The god of this world is worshipped by many Wiccans, Witches, Druids, other Neo-Pagans, and even theistic and spiritual Satanists.
- Wiccans, Druids and other pagan practitioners will be there to celebrate their faith.
Origin From Latin druidae, druides (plural), from Gaulish; related to Irish draoidh ‘magician, sorcerer’. |