pantheonn.

Brit.

/ˈpanθɪən/, U.S.

/ˈpænθiˌɑn/

Forms: Old English– pantheon, late Middle English panteon, late Middle English panteone, 1500s panthean, 1500s–1600s pathan (transmission error), 1600s panthaeon, 1900s– panthéon (in sense 1c). Also (esp. in sense 1) with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pantheon.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin pantheon a temple consecrated to all the gods (6th cent.; compare classical Latin pantheum pantheum n.) < ancient Greek Πάνθειον , use as noun (short for πάνθειον ἱερόν ) of neuter of πάνθειος of, relating to, or common to all the gods (first recorded in Hellenistic Greek) < παν- pan- comb. form + θεῖος of or sacred to a god < θεός a god (see theo- comb. form) + -ιος, suffix forming adjectives. Compare Middle French, French panthéon temple dedicated to all the gods, at Rome (1488), building in Paris for burying the illustrious dead (1792), assemblage of all the gods of a particular nation (1797). N.E.D. (1904) also gives the pronunciation (pænþī·ǫ̆n) /pænˈθiːən/. This pattern with stress on the second syllable is repeatedly attested in 18th-cent. verse and, according to N.E.D. (1904), is the more prevalent pronunciation in England at the beginning of the 20th cent. It is also found in Johnson (1755), Sheridan (1780), Walker (1806), and in several early editions of Bailey (1731, 1735, 1764), whereas the 1770 edition assigns stress to the first syllable. The current pattern with stress on the first syllable is also predicted by the Greek etymon. A parallel French formation panthée in sense 1a (1568 or earlier in Middle French) is reflected by the following:1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xx. 57 The proportion of the Panthee of Rome.

a. Chiefly Classical History A temple dedicated to all the gods, or where images or other memorials of all the gods of a culture are collected; spec. (usually with capital initial) a large circular temple in Rome.The Pantheon in Rome was begun by Agrippa c25 b.c. as a conventional rectangular temple, but rebuilt as a larger, circular, domed building in the 2nd and 3rd cent. by the emperors Hadrian, Severus, and Caracalla. It was consecrated as a Christian church (Santa Maria Rotonda) in 609.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > temple > [noun] > of all gods

pantheonOE

society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > temple > [noun] > of all gods > Pantheon

rotunda?1566

pantheon1586

rotonda1620

pantheum1712

OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 1 Nov. 243 Bonefacius se papa on Rome..on ðone dæg gehalgode to cirican Sancta Marian ond eallum Cristes martyrum ðæt deofolgylda hus þæt hy nemnað Pantheon.

a1425 N. Homily Legendary (Harl. suppl.) in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 143 (MED) Þe men of Rome..A temple made..And Panteon þai calde þe name, Þe hows of goddes.

a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 74 Focas..graunted Bonefas þe pope leue to consecrate þe temple cleped Pantheon to þe worchep of oure Lady and all seyntis.

c1500 Serm. in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1887) 79 435/1 In Rome..was a temple..callyd panteone... Panteone is to sey in greke, Of all godis & deuellus.

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Rev. xvi. f. xxv The firste plage is fallen vpon all ydols and false goddes whiche they had set and packed together in one tempel of Pantheon, that is to saye all goddes.

1586 E. Hoby tr. M. Coignet Polit. Disc. Trueth xxx. 140 The Romanes allowed the seruice of all gods, hauing for that ende builded a Temple to all gods called Pantheon.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 135 Marcus Agrippa..built this Church, and dedicated it to Jupiter..and to Ceres, and to all the gods, whereupon it was called Pantheon.

1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 233 You would almost sweare the Heathen Gods, when they were banished out of the Pantheon, had been committed hither as to a prison.

1740 J. Dyer Ruins of Rome 10 Yon venerable Dome, Which virtuous Latium, with erroneous aim, Rais'd to her various Deities, and nam'd Pantheon.

1765 T. Smollett France & Italy xxxi, in Wks. (1817) V. 495 I was much disappointed at sight of the pantheon, which..looks like a huge cockpit, open at top.

1832 W. Gell Pompeiana I. iv. 49 The Pantheon..may be..considered as a place of feasting..under the protection of some deity, who, from his more elevated sacellum, was supposed to..patronize the banquet.

1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. xxv. 277 The world has nothing else like the Pantheon.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 709/1 In 609 or 610 Pope Boniface IV. consecrated the Pantheon at Rome to the Blessed Virgin and all the martyrs.

1994 Food & Wine Oct. 64/1 Behind this facade is the greatest engineering feat of antiquity: the Pantheon's enormous rotunda with an oculus at the top that is open to the sky.

†b. figurative. Obsolete.General figurative reference to the temple and its role has now been superseded by sense 3.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > source of supply > abundant

mine?1541

storehouse1578

pantheon1596

cornucopia1611

goshen1890

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Q3 ^v Of this Iohn Thorius..I wil speake,.. his Church another Pantheon, or Templum omnium deorum, the absolutest Oracle of all sound Deuinitie.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. iii. 4 Poland, the Pantheon of all religions.

1663 A. Cowley On Bk. presenting Itself 1 Hail, Learning's Pantheon! Hail the sacred Ark, Where all the World of Science does embarque!

1772 G. A. Stevens Songs Comic & Satyrical 11 For Cupid's Pantheon, the Shaft of Delight Must spring from the Masculine Base.

1806 T. Maurice Fall of Mogul Introd. 15 To that superstitious race the universe is a vast pantheon, filled with intellectual beings of various classes and powers.

c. A building resembling or compared to the Pantheon in Rome, in form or purpose; spec. (with capital initial) one begun in Paris in about 1757 as the church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, but converted into a secular memorial and given its current name during the French Revolution (now frequently in form Panthéon). Hence also: any building in which the illustrious dead of a nation are buried or honoured with memorials.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > obsequies > monument > [noun] > pantheon

pantheon1713

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > types of building generally > [noun] > other types of building

bridge house1319

searching housea1525

folly1591

engine house1626

hut1629

pot gallery1630

pantheon1713

government office1750

enclosure1754

substation1833

art centre1863

centre1884

arts centre1922

quadplex1946

quadruplex1946

bhavan1949

low-rise1965

quad1971

quadrominium1971

see-through1975

common house1989

1713 Ward's Simple Cobler 12 It were..requisite, that the City should repair Pauls..for an English Pantheon, and bestow it upon the Sectaries, freely to assemble in.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) In the Escurial is a magnificent Chapel, called Pantheon... In this Chapel are deposited the Bodies of the Kings and Queens.

1767 H. Walpole Lett. (1857) V. 51 I shall make a solemn dedication of it in my pantheon Chapel.

1803 F. W. Blagdon Paris as it Was II. xlviii. 137 Marat..was..interred in the Pantheon.

1838 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 76/2 The Pantheon, or church of St. Geneviève, is perhaps the most magnificent of the modern edifices in Paris... The west portico bears some resemblance to the Pantheon at Rome.

1855 London as it is To-day 29 Westminster Abbey may not inaptly be called the pantheon of the glory of Britain.

1925 W. Cather Professor's House i. ix. 103 The shop windows were shut; on the bleak ascent to the Pantheon there was not a spot of colour, nothing but wet, shiny, quick-silvery grey.

1942 E. Paul Narrow Street ix. 74 He staggered eastward toward the Panthéon and I sashayed westward to the rue Lafayette.

1999 P. Curtis Sculpture 1900–45 ii. 66 The ‘Victor Hugo’ first intended for the Panthéon was promised a home in a Parisian park.

d. A large building (now no longer in existence) in Oxford Street, London, with a dome likened to that of the Pantheon in Rome, and used in the late 18th and early 19th centuries for public entertainments such as balls, masquerades, and plays. Hence also: an entertainment of the kind staged in this building. Now historical.The building was built by the architect Henry Hoare in the 1750s and adapted to use for entertainments by James and Samuel Wyatt, opening in 1772.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > [adjective] > of all the gods

pantheon1772

pandemoniac1848

society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > assembly rooms or halls

redoubt1702

assembly-room1744

drum-room1749

assembly house1762

pantheon1772

casino1789

pleasure dome1816

palace1831

melodeon1840

kursaal1850

winter garden1859

music hallc1883

Met1896

1771 H. Walpole Let. 26 Apr. (1967) XXIII. 298 The new winter Ranelagh in Oxford Road, which is almost finished. Imagine..a dome like the Pantheon, glazed.]

1772 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 44/1 Monday, 27. Was opened for the first time, the much talked of Pantheon.

a1777 S. Foote Cozeners (1778) i. 3 Expences in attending plays, operas, masquerades, and Pantheons.

1782 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XI. 158 We are making swift advances toward it [sc. lewdness], by playhouses, masquerades, and pantheons.

1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 186 How I should have liked to witness the old pigtail operas and ballets performed at the Pantheon.

1898 Longman's Mag. Nov. 58 A sumptuous ball at the Pantheon, silver loo with a princess, ‘Pam’ with a duchess.

1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 736/1 He began a close association with his younger brother James, notably at the Pantheon in Oxford Street.

a. An assemblage of all the gods of a particular people or religion; the deities of a culture collectively. rare before 19th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > nature of god(s) > habitation or assemblage of gods

pantheon?1545

goddery1811

thearchy1852

pantheonization1883

the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > non-Christian

heaveneOE

other worldOE

paradise?a1425

pantheon?1545

Olympus1582

Hesperidesa1592

tian1613

afterworld1615

Swarga1734

goddery1811

Pure Land1819

Reinga1820

Tir-na-nog1889

Jodo1901

sand-hill1949

?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches ii. sig. Pviii The blasphemouse Pantheon of Rome ones peryshinge, all other churches of the vnfaythfull must nedes folowe sone after in their course.

1853 F. D. Maurice Prophets & Kings Old Test. xxv. 435 However intricate the relations of the gods may seem to us in the Greek pantheon.

1878 G. F. Maclear Celts (1879) ii. 22 Highest in the Celtic Pantheon was the golden-handed sun.

1939 M. Steedman Unknown to World: Haiti xvii. 154 The gods and goddesses of the Voudon pantheon are known as the ‘Lois’.

1993 Atlantic June 106/2 It explains the events that affect people's lives as the consequence of the actions, often capricious, of a pantheon of hundreds of spirits.

†b. [In early use after the title of the Pantheum Mythicum (1st ed. 1659) of the Jesuit priest François Antoine Pomey.] A treatise on all the gods, esp. a work listing and describing the gods and heroes of the ancient world. Usually in titles. Obsolete.Such works were popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and were usually intended for the instruction of schoolchildren.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > treatise on all the gods

pantheon1698

1698 A. Tooke tr. F. A. Pomey (title) The Pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods and most illustrious heroes.

1758 (title) A new Pantheon: or, a fabulous history of the heathen gods, heroes, goddesses, &c.

1790 (title) Bell's new Pantheon, or historical dictionary of gods, demi-gods, heroes, and fabulous personages of antiquity.

1806 W. Godwin (title) The Pantheon; or, ancient history of the gods of Greece and Rome... For the use of schools, and young persons of both sexes.

a1819 R. Watt Bibliotheca Brit. (1824) I. at Stephen Bateman Golden Book of Heathen Gods... This work has been considered as one of the first attempts towards a Pantheon, or descriptions of the Heathen Gods.

c. An exhibition of models or images representing all the gods of a culture. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > modelling > [noun] > model > in wax > specific collection

pantheon1711

waxwork1763

Chamber of Horrors1856

wax museum1963

1711 Spectator No. 46 (advt.) Mr. Penkethman's Wonderful Invention call'd the Pantheon: or, the Temple of the Heathen Gods..The Figures..move their Heads [etc.].

1995 Church Times 15 Dec. 20/1 The most venerated of the Jinas are the first and the last three, but it is the tenth and 11th-century headless image of the seated Malli, the 19th in this pantheon, which is the most telling exhibit.

3. The group of people or things most revered by an individual, nation, profession, etc.; a group of people particularly respected, famous, or otherwise significant in some capacity; a set of things having acknowledged value or importance.

ΚΠ

1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 35 35 Justice, Modesty..and other poetic idolisms of his new Pantheon.

1882 Athenæum 30 Dec. 878/1 Scherer..has room in his literary pantheon for every legitimate form of art.

1915 E. Pound Let. (1971) 55 There is no use implying that I lack reverence for great writers. My pantheon is considerable.

1977 S. J. Gould Ever since Darwin 208 Karl Ernst von Baer.., second only to Darwin in my personal pantheon of scientific heroes.

1995 Guardian 2 Feb. (OnLine section) 9/4 The Pantheon of politically-incorrect ‘isms’.

2001 Times 7 Nov. (Sports Daily) 5/1 In the pantheon of great Wales fly halves, alongside Cliff Morgan, Barry John, Phil Bennett and Jonathan Davies.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pantheon
释义	pantheonn. Brit. /ˈpanθɪən/, U.S. /ˈpænθiˌɑn/ Forms: Old English– pantheon, late Middle English panteon, late Middle English panteone, 1500s panthean, 1500s–1600s pathan (transmission error), 1600s panthaeon, 1900s– panthéon (in sense 1c). Also (esp. in sense 1) with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pantheon. Etymology: < post-classical Latin pantheon a temple consecrated to all the gods (6th cent.; compare classical Latin pantheum pantheum n.) < ancient Greek Πάνθειον , use as noun (short for πάνθειον ἱερόν ) of neuter of πάνθειος of, relating to, or common to all the gods (first recorded in Hellenistic Greek) < παν- pan- comb. form + θεῖος of or sacred to a god < θεός a god (see theo- comb. form) + -ιος, suffix forming adjectives. Compare Middle French, French panthéon temple dedicated to all the gods, at Rome (1488), building in Paris for burying the illustrious dead (1792), assemblage of all the gods of a particular nation (1797). N.E.D. (1904) also gives the pronunciation (pænþī·ǫ̆n) /pænˈθiːən/. This pattern with stress on the second syllable is repeatedly attested in 18th-cent. verse and, according to N.E.D. (1904), is the more prevalent pronunciation in England at the beginning of the 20th cent. It is also found in Johnson (1755), Sheridan (1780), Walker (1806), and in several early editions of Bailey (1731, 1735, 1764), whereas the 1770 edition assigns stress to the first syllable. The current pattern with stress on the first syllable is also predicted by the Greek etymon. A parallel French formation panthée in sense 1a (1568 or earlier in Middle French) is reflected by the following:1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xx. 57 The proportion of the Panthee of Rome. 1. a. Chiefly Classical History A temple dedicated to all the gods, or where images or other memorials of all the gods of a culture are collected; spec. (usually with capital initial) a large circular temple in Rome.The Pantheon in Rome was begun by Agrippa c25 b.c. as a conventional rectangular temple, but rebuilt as a larger, circular, domed building in the 2nd and 3rd cent. by the emperors Hadrian, Severus, and Caracalla. It was consecrated as a Christian church (Santa Maria Rotonda) in 609. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > temple > [noun] > of all gods pantheonOE society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > temple > [noun] > of all gods > Pantheon rotunda?1566 pantheon1586 rotonda1620 pantheum1712 OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 1 Nov. 243 Bonefacius se papa on Rome..on ðone dæg gehalgode to cirican Sancta Marian ond eallum Cristes martyrum ðæt deofolgylda hus þæt hy nemnað Pantheon. a1425 N. Homily Legendary (Harl. suppl.) in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 143 (MED) Þe men of Rome..A temple made..And Panteon þai calde þe name, Þe hows of goddes. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 74 Focas..graunted Bonefas þe pope leue to consecrate þe temple cleped Pantheon to þe worchep of oure Lady and all seyntis. c1500 Serm. in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1887) 79 435/1 In Rome..was a temple..callyd panteone... Panteone is to sey in greke, Of all godis & deuellus. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Rev. xvi. f. xxv The firste plage is fallen vpon all ydols and false goddes whiche they had set and packed together in one tempel of Pantheon, that is to saye all goddes. 1586 E. Hoby tr. M. Coignet Polit. Disc. Trueth xxx. 140 The Romanes allowed the seruice of all gods, hauing for that ende builded a Temple to all gods called Pantheon. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 135 Marcus Agrippa..built this Church, and dedicated it to Jupiter..and to Ceres, and to all the gods, whereupon it was called Pantheon. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 233 You would almost sweare the Heathen Gods, when they were banished out of the Pantheon, had been committed hither as to a prison. 1740 J. Dyer Ruins of Rome 10 Yon venerable Dome, Which virtuous Latium, with erroneous aim, Rais'd to her various Deities, and nam'd Pantheon. 1765 T. Smollett France & Italy xxxi, in Wks. (1817) V. 495 I was much disappointed at sight of the pantheon, which..looks like a huge cockpit, open at top. 1832 W. Gell Pompeiana I. iv. 49 The Pantheon..may be..considered as a place of feasting..under the protection of some deity, who, from his more elevated sacellum, was supposed to..patronize the banquet. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. xxv. 277 The world has nothing else like the Pantheon. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 709/1 In 609 or 610 Pope Boniface IV. consecrated the Pantheon at Rome to the Blessed Virgin and all the martyrs. 1994 Food & Wine Oct. 64/1 Behind this facade is the greatest engineering feat of antiquity: the Pantheon's enormous rotunda with an oculus at the top that is open to the sky. †b. figurative. Obsolete.General figurative reference to the temple and its role has now been superseded by sense 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > source of supply > abundant mine?1541 storehouse1578 pantheon1596 cornucopia1611 goshen1890 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Q3 ^v Of this Iohn Thorius..I wil speake,.. his Church another Pantheon, or Templum omnium deorum, the absolutest Oracle of all sound Deuinitie. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. iii. 4 Poland, the Pantheon of all religions. 1663 A. Cowley On Bk. presenting Itself 1 Hail, Learning's Pantheon! Hail the sacred Ark, Where all the World of Science does embarque! 1772 G. A. Stevens Songs Comic & Satyrical 11 For Cupid's Pantheon, the Shaft of Delight Must spring from the Masculine Base. 1806 T. Maurice Fall of Mogul Introd. 15 To that superstitious race the universe is a vast pantheon, filled with intellectual beings of various classes and powers. c. A building resembling or compared to the Pantheon in Rome, in form or purpose; spec. (with capital initial) one begun in Paris in about 1757 as the church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, but converted into a secular memorial and given its current name during the French Revolution (now frequently in form Panthéon). Hence also: any building in which the illustrious dead of a nation are buried or honoured with memorials. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > monument > [noun] > pantheon pantheon1713 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > types of building generally > [noun] > other types of building bridge house1319 searching housea1525 folly1591 engine house1626 hut1629 pot gallery1630 pantheon1713 government office1750 enclosure1754 substation1833 art centre1863 centre1884 arts centre1922 quadplex1946 quadruplex1946 bhavan1949 low-rise1965 quad1971 quadrominium1971 see-through1975 common house1989 1713 Ward's Simple Cobler 12 It were..requisite, that the City should repair Pauls..for an English Pantheon, and bestow it upon the Sectaries, freely to assemble in. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) In the Escurial is a magnificent Chapel, called Pantheon... In this Chapel are deposited the Bodies of the Kings and Queens. 1767 H. Walpole Lett. (1857) V. 51 I shall make a solemn dedication of it in my pantheon Chapel. 1803 F. W. Blagdon Paris as it Was II. xlviii. 137 Marat..was..interred in the Pantheon. 1838 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 76/2 The Pantheon, or church of St. Geneviève, is perhaps the most magnificent of the modern edifices in Paris... The west portico bears some resemblance to the Pantheon at Rome. 1855 London as it is To-day 29 Westminster Abbey may not inaptly be called the pantheon of the glory of Britain. 1925 W. Cather Professor's House i. ix. 103 The shop windows were shut; on the bleak ascent to the Pantheon there was not a spot of colour, nothing but wet, shiny, quick-silvery grey. 1942 E. Paul Narrow Street ix. 74 He staggered eastward toward the Panthéon and I sashayed westward to the rue Lafayette. 1999 P. Curtis Sculpture 1900–45 ii. 66 The ‘Victor Hugo’ first intended for the Panthéon was promised a home in a Parisian park. d. A large building (now no longer in existence) in Oxford Street, London, with a dome likened to that of the Pantheon in Rome, and used in the late 18th and early 19th centuries for public entertainments such as balls, masquerades, and plays. Hence also: an entertainment of the kind staged in this building. Now historical.The building was built by the architect Henry Hoare in the 1750s and adapted to use for entertainments by James and Samuel Wyatt, opening in 1772. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [adjective] > of all the gods pantheon1772 pandemoniac1848 society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > assembly rooms or halls redoubt1702 assembly-room1744 drum-room1749 assembly house1762 pantheon1772 casino1789 pleasure dome1816 palace1831 melodeon1840 kursaal1850 winter garden1859 music hallc1883 Met1896 1771 H. Walpole Let. 26 Apr. (1967) XXIII. 298 The new winter Ranelagh in Oxford Road, which is almost finished. Imagine..a dome like the Pantheon, glazed.] 1772 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 44/1 Monday, 27. Was opened for the first time, the much talked of Pantheon. a1777 S. Foote Cozeners (1778) i. 3 Expences in attending plays, operas, masquerades, and Pantheons. 1782 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XI. 158 We are making swift advances toward it [sc. lewdness], by playhouses, masquerades, and pantheons. 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 186 How I should have liked to witness the old pigtail operas and ballets performed at the Pantheon. 1898 Longman's Mag. Nov. 58 A sumptuous ball at the Pantheon, silver loo with a princess, ‘Pam’ with a duchess. 1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 736/1 He began a close association with his younger brother James, notably at the Pantheon in Oxford Street. 2. a. An assemblage of all the gods of a particular people or religion; the deities of a culture collectively. rare before 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > nature of god(s) > habitation or assemblage of gods pantheon?1545 goddery1811 thearchy1852 pantheonization1883 the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > non-Christian heaveneOE other worldOE paradise?a1425 pantheon?1545 Olympus1582 Hesperidesa1592 tian1613 afterworld1615 Swarga1734 goddery1811 Pure Land1819 Reinga1820 Tir-na-nog1889 Jodo1901 sand-hill1949 ?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches ii. sig. Pviii The blasphemouse Pantheon of Rome ones peryshinge, all other churches of the vnfaythfull must nedes folowe sone after in their course. 1853 F. D. Maurice Prophets & Kings Old Test. xxv. 435 However intricate the relations of the gods may seem to us in the Greek pantheon. 1878 G. F. Maclear Celts (1879) ii. 22 Highest in the Celtic Pantheon was the golden-handed sun. 1939 M. Steedman Unknown to World: Haiti xvii. 154 The gods and goddesses of the Voudon pantheon are known as the ‘Lois’. 1993 Atlantic June 106/2 It explains the events that affect people's lives as the consequence of the actions, often capricious, of a pantheon of hundreds of spirits. †b. [In early use after the title of the Pantheum Mythicum (1st ed. 1659) of the Jesuit priest François Antoine Pomey.] A treatise on all the gods, esp. a work listing and describing the gods and heroes of the ancient world. Usually in titles. Obsolete.Such works were popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and were usually intended for the instruction of schoolchildren. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > treatise on all the gods pantheon1698 1698 A. Tooke tr. F. A. Pomey (title) The Pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods and most illustrious heroes. 1758 (title) A new Pantheon: or, a fabulous history of the heathen gods, heroes, goddesses, &c. 1790 (title) Bell's new Pantheon, or historical dictionary of gods, demi-gods, heroes, and fabulous personages of antiquity. 1806 W. Godwin (title) The Pantheon; or, ancient history of the gods of Greece and Rome... For the use of schools, and young persons of both sexes. a1819 R. Watt Bibliotheca Brit. (1824) I. at Stephen Bateman Golden Book of Heathen Gods... This work has been considered as one of the first attempts towards a Pantheon, or descriptions of the Heathen Gods. c. An exhibition of models or images representing all the gods of a culture. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > modelling > [noun] > model > in wax > specific collection pantheon1711 waxwork1763 Chamber of Horrors1856 wax museum1963 1711 Spectator No. 46 (advt.) Mr. Penkethman's Wonderful Invention call'd the Pantheon: or, the Temple of the Heathen Gods..The Figures..move their Heads [etc.]. 1995 Church Times 15 Dec. 20/1 The most venerated of the Jinas are the first and the last three, but it is the tenth and 11th-century headless image of the seated Malli, the 19th in this pantheon, which is the most telling exhibit. 3. The group of people or things most revered by an individual, nation, profession, etc.; a group of people particularly respected, famous, or otherwise significant in some capacity; a set of things having acknowledged value or importance. ΚΠ 1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 35 35 Justice, Modesty..and other poetic idolisms of his new Pantheon. 1882 Athenæum 30 Dec. 878/1 Scherer..has room in his literary pantheon for every legitimate form of art. 1915 E. Pound Let. (1971) 55 There is no use implying that I lack reverence for great writers. My pantheon is considerable. 1977 S. J. Gould Ever since Darwin 208 Karl Ernst von Baer.., second only to Darwin in my personal pantheon of scientific heroes. 1995 Guardian 2 Feb. (OnLine section) 9/4 The Pantheon of politically-incorrect ‘isms’. 2001 Times 7 Nov. (Sports Daily) 5/1 In the pantheon of great Wales fly halves, alongside Cliff Morgan, Barry John, Phil Bennett and Jonathan Davies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE
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