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The pagan lands; pagans, collectively; paganism. [R.]

Of or pertaining to pagans or paganism; heathenish; paganish. [R.] "The paganic fables of the goods." Cudworth. -- Pa*gan"ic*al*ly, adv. [R.]

Of or pertaining to pagans; heathenish. "The old paganish idolatry." Sharp

The state of being pagan; pagan characteristics; esp., the worship of idols or false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans; heathenism.

The state of being a pagan; paganism. [R.] Cudworth.

To render pagan or heathenish; to convert to paganism. Hallywell.

In a pagan manner. Dr. H. More.

e United States, a boy emploed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. He had two pages of honor -- on either hand one. Bacon.

A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle. "A pageant truly played." Shak. To see sad pageants of men's miseries. Spenser.

Scenic shows or spectacles, taken collectivelly; spectacular guality; splendor. Such pageantry be to the people shown. Dryden. The pageantry of festival. J. A. Symonds.

The state of being a page.

The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus.

Consisting of pages. "Paginal books." Sir T. Browne.

The act or process of paging a book; also, the characters used in numbering the pages; page number. Lowndes.

The marking or numbering of the pages of a book.

A pagoda. [R.] "Or some queer pagod." Pope.

tower- like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship.

A funnel-shaped sleeve arranged to show the sleeve lining and an inner sleeve.

Agalmatolite; -- so called because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas. See Agalmatolite.

Any one of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals of the genus Paguma. They resemble a weasel in form.