pagan
异教徒,异教,異教徒
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Definitions
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- : one of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion, as the ancient Romans and Greeks.
- : a member of a religious, spiritual, or cultural community based on the worship of nature or the earth; a neopagan.
- : Disparaging and Offensive. a person who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim; a heathen.an irreligious or hedonistic person.an uncivilized or unenlightened person.
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- : of, relating to, or characteristic of pagans.
- : Disparaging and Offensive. relating to the worship or worshipers of any religion that is neither Christian, Jewish, nor Muslim.irreligious or hedonistic. uncivilized or unenlightened.
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Examples
In a straightforward way, it shows the pagan and the Christian worlds in confrontation, the way they were in the time of the legend.
So she did this pagan ceremony, blessing the cameras and the sound equipment.
They still have pagan holidays, a lot like Scandinavian countries.
The trouble for Ded Moroz and his granddaughter sidekick, who originate from pagan Slavic mythology, began with the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922.
A Druid shrine and then a pagan temple dedicated to Jupiter, the chief of the Roman gods, are believed to have stood on this spot.
A second uniformed cop, 29-year-old Police Officer Roberto Pagan, has arrived.
The demonic ‘anti-Santa’ enjoys an unlikely renaissance as we learn to embrace our inner pagan.
And likewise the Easter bunny, a bizarre pagan myth if ever one there was.
Yet most people outside that little circle still believe in witches and ghosts and goblins, and are very pagan-minded.
On Tuesday, it was Hector Pagan, ex-husband of Mob Wives star Renee Graziano.
I am an easiful old pagan, and I am not angry with you at all—you funny, little champion of the Most High.
Although nearly two hundred inscriptions have been discovered, not one of either pagan or Christian character has been met with.
The loftiest pagan philosophy dwindled into insignificance before the sublimity of Christian hope.
A traveller ordinarily feels as safe in a highly-civilized pagan community as in a Christian city.
There was one device of oath-taking, half pagan and half barbaric, which but very slowly relaxed its hold on Christian Europe.