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Definition of Pagans
1. pagan [n] - See also: pagan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pagans
Literary usage of Pagans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"Some pagans made this soul of the world their supreme God ; others an abstract mind
... The Hebrew doctors generally of this persuasion, that the pagans ..."
2. The Annals of Roger de Hoveden: Comprising the History of England and of by Roger of Hoveden, Roger, Henry Thomas Riley (1853)
"Accordingly, the chief men of the pagans above-named came to confer with the kings
... and selected one hundred of the richest and most noble of the pagans, ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1880)
"ETERNAL PUNISHMENT OF THE pagans. [Cn. XV. solemn idea, he considered every
disaster that happened to the empire as an infallible symptom of an expiring ..."
4. Ingulph's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland: With the Continuations by by Ingulf, Peter (1854)
"In the following year, however, the army of the pagans, after having made some
stay at York, at the close of the winter passed over by ship into ..."
5. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... and moft ignorant of pagans: and fo indeed we found it. We were now launched
into the ... pagans ..."
6. A General History of Rome from the Foundation of the City to the Fall of by Charles Merivale (1886)
"... Rome show favor to the pagans.—Alaric reduces Rome a second time, and sets up
Attalus as emperor under him.—He enters and plunders Rome, but respects ..."
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