heathenish

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Resembling a heathen.

   • […] ‘Tobit and his dog baith are altogether heathenish and apocryphal, and none but a prelatist or a papist would draw them into question. I doubt I hae been mista'en in you, friend.’
   • The opposite wall of this entry was hung all over with a heathenish array of monstrous clubs and spears.
   • Let it not be lawful to use wicked observations of the calends, and to keep the gentiles' holy-days, nor to deck houses with bays or green boughs; for all this is an heathenish observation.

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