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  • adjective Involving or resembling paganism.

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Examples

  • After a little brainstorming, we thought that if we got the United Way involved in our little scheme, we could get some backing to put on a helluva Haunted House ... something that our deeply religious city had banished years ago as being "paganistic".

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2001

  • The name brings thought to some kind of paganistic ritual set out to worship the sun god.

    Article Source 2009

  • Green Drinks downtown rounded up my paganistic celebrations of Earth Week.

    Paige Donner: Greening Hollywood: On Earth Worshipping and Going Pagan 2009

  • Later heresies of the church, such as Gnosticism, involved paganistic and/or mystical additions upon what Jesus meant in the Gospels when He claimed to be God; they never denied that He made any special claims about Himself

    [christianity] is fair discussion possible [5] 2009

  • Later heresies of the church, such as Gnosticism, involved paganistic and/or mystical additions upon what Jesus meant in the Gospels when He claimed to be God; they never denied that He made any special claims about Himself

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Three lumps of sugar in his tea raises an eyebrow, a suggestion of singing Frosty the Snowman at the Christmas pageant provokes paganistic shock, compassion for a young black student becomes grounds for abuse.

    Jim Lichtman: The Nature of Fear 2009

  • It sounds paganistic and jewish both, so I'm all for it!

    Happy Shavuot! Ayala Sender 2007

  • The new ideals were as equally expressed by Stravinsky's paganistic "Rite of Spring" as by boogie woogie piano playing.

    Guarding America's Future Against the Heirs of Cromwell 2007

  • I wonder if recent influence of the paganistic historical roots of the event is a way to legitimize the event among the disfavored, perhaps make it more inclusive adults, create a sub-culture around paganism?

    Of Death, Rights and the Future Pilgrimage to Self 2006

  • I wonder if recent influence of the paganistic historical roots of the event is a way to legitimize the event among the disfavored, perhaps make it more inclusive adults, create a sub-culture around paganism?

    Espionage-real and imagined, notable books, disconcerted by gmail etc uknaija 2006

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