单词 | repaganize |
释义 | repaganizev. 1. transitive. To make pagan again; to restore a pagan character or form to. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > paganization > paganize [verb (transitive)] > again repaganize1685 anapaganize1831 1685 H. More Paralipomena Prophetica xlii. 362 If he could not..have turned off Constantine from the Faith or Re-paganized the Christians. 1869 Catholic World Feb. 689/1 We have seen an antichristian conspiracy,..exerting the highest arts of genius to repaganize the world. 1884 W. D. Howells Tuscan Cities 56 The Florentines are half repaganized. 1947 Amarillo (Texas) Globe 18 Dec. 22/3 Woven into it are memories and rituals predating Christianity, derived from pagan celebrations of the winter solstice. But only Hitler ever tried to repaganize the feast. 1998 New Republic 2 Mar. 39/1 Gauchet's argument is that many of today's seekers..who aim to repaganize the world are searching for forms of reattunement and at-oneness. ΚΠ 1701 T. Beverley Grand Apoc. Question 11 This Empire Repaganizing through Anti~christianism, undermining, and supplanting True Christianity. Derivatives reˈpaganized adj. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > paganization > [adjective] paganized1599 paganizing1631 repaganized1701 1701 T. Beverley Grand Apoc. Question 11 In this very Repaganic (if so I may speak) or Repaganiz'd State. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. v. 107 The chief objects of worship in the re-Paganized land were three statues of gilded brass. 2004 M. Riddell in J. Stenhouse et al. Future Christianity xii. 225 These of course were missionary pioneers in a largely repaganised world. reˈpaganizing adj. ΚΠ 1906 N.E.D. at Repaganize Repaganizing. 2005 C. E. Rigby Topogr. of Sacred iv. 167 An astounded world that, in a further repaganizing recollection of Christian sacramentalism, is said to receive its lifeblood from the ‘veins’ of the neighboring hills. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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