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A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry. As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god, Those priests high orgies held. Drayton…

Pagan. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A pagan; an infidel; -- used also adjectively. [Written also panim and paynim.] Peacham.

Pagan. Etym: [F.] [Obs.] Chaucer.

A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans. Abp. Potter.

to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. Ye [Scribes and Pharisees] compass sea and land to make one proselyte. Matt. xxiii. 15. Fresh confidence the speculatist takes From every harebrained proselyte he makes. Cowper.…

consonants. Pure-impure, completely or totally impure. "The inhabitants were pure-impure pagans." Fuller. -- Pure blue. (Chem.) See Methylene blue, under Methylene. -- Pure chemistry. See under Chemistry. -- Pure mathematics, that portion of mathematics which treats of the principles of the science, or contradistin…

The act of purging. The preparative for the purge of paganism of the kingdom of Northumberland. Fuller.

Formerly, in the Philippines, a political division of the pagan tribes.

To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide. They enter into the justified state, and so continue all along, unless they relapse. Waterland.

A place in a pagan temple in which the images of the deities were inclosed.

To be angry at; to hate. [Obs.] The Danes, then . . . pagans, spited places of religion. Fuller.

living with thee nor without thee. Tatler. Such arguments had invincible force with those pagan philosophers. Addison.