Paganish

adj, slang

adj, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pagan. archaic

    "Nor can he be so little acquainted with the paganish theology, as not to apprehend a vast disagreement between this and that, and a much greater agreement between the paganish notion of the Deity, and his own."

  2. 2
    Somewhat pagan. informal

    "Actually Godsmack has a lot of paganish songs because the lead singer Sully is Wiccan."

Example

More examples

"A solitary man standing on the hilltop turned slowly from mountain to valley, from sky to field, seeming to eat and drink and breathe—to make a part of him by some paganish transubstantiation—the very day itself."

Etymology

From pagan + -ish.

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