Перевод слова

Перевод: pagan

[прилагательное]
языческий; неверующий;
[существительное]
неверующий ; язычник ; атеист

Тезаурус:

1. There is still a wonderful tolerance about a place that has spawned the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence headed by Sadie the Rabbi Lady; Dykes on Bikes; the Pagan Drumming Circle; the prostitutes' rights group COYOTE; and the Ethel Merman Memorial Choir.
2. Mohammed is seen as someone who swept away the pagan polytheism of Mecca in favour of the idea that there is one God who is totally separate from the world.
3. This pagan kingly behaviour (more reminiscent of ancient kingship rights than orthodox Christian behaviour) gave rise to criticism from the Church, but no one dared openly to accuse or chastise such a powerful ruler.
4. Weddings were an excuse to indulge in a complexity of symbols, some of which look like vestiges of atavistic and pagan ceremonies - a whiff of Pan, a nuance of Sleeping Beauty.
5. As a result, by about the year 400 Christmas Day had become a significant date in the Christian Year: 25 December was chosen so as to exorcize the great pagan festival of the solar solstice.
6. This was hardly surprising, given that earthy pagan beliefs mingled in the peasant mind with Christian tenets, creating a "double faith" (doeverie ), the icon and the wheatsheaf together.
7. Grand Lodge Librarian and Curator John Hamill made it his first priority to assure me that "freemasonry contains neither pagan nor occult practices".
8. The God believed in by Jews, Hindus and Christians, is not like the pagan God, Atlas, who was supposed to be underneath the world propping it up on his shoulders.
9. High Church opinion, becoming more vigorous with the rise of the Tractarians, was outraged by the excess of pagan symbolism in new cemeteries.
10. Undercliffe Cemetery in Bradford displayed a pagan temple, guarded by two sphinxes, and Highgate actually boasted an Egyptian Avenue.
11. To achieve self-realisation, and to get in tune with the cosmic force, the New Agers are introduced to the oldest techniques known to pagan man.
12. From the middle years of the second century the converts included some philosophically trained minds, at least the equal of most pagan contemporaries.
13. Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem of (probably) the eighth century, shot through with Christian learning and allusions, but all about warrior heroes, their feuds, their treasure, their veneration of pagan ancestors.