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whom as intrusted some departament of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church.

lloq.] The Latin version technically called a crib. Ld. Lytton. Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib. Wilkie Collins.

A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. The demon kind is of an inSydenham.

A pretended deity of pagans; a false god. Beastly divinities, and droves of gods. Prior.

A heathen; a pagan. [Obs.] No better reported than impure ethnic and lay dogs. Milton.

Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; -- opposed to Jewish and Christian.

Heathenism; paganism; idolatry. [Obs.] "Taint of ethnicism." B. Jonson.

how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hope. Shak. Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffie and falsify the prediction. Addison.

A Christian in general; -- used as a term of reproach by Mohammedans and Pagans. Byron.

nius have often attached the highest value to their less genial works. Hare. Genial gods (Pagan Mythol.), the powers supposed to preside over marriage and generation.

Belonging to the nations at large, as distinguished from the Jews; ethnic; of pagan or heathen people.

Heathenish; pagan.

Hethenism; paganism; the worship of false gods.

Paganism; heathenism. [Obs.] Hooker.

rotector or defender in general. O. W. Holmes. -- Guardian spirit, in the belief of many pagan nations, a spirit, often of a deceased relative or friend, that presides over the interests of a household, a city, or a region.

An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.

The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry; paganism.

sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations. Milton.

entations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan.

cation; community of possessions, religion, etc. In consequence of that intercommunity of paganism . . . one nation adopted the gods of another. Bp. Warburton.