Pagandom to Painter

Pagandom
(Pa"gan*dom) n. The pagan lands; pagans, collectively; paganism. [R.]

Paganic
(Pa*gan"ic) Paganical
(Pa*gan"ic*al) a. Of or pertaining to pagans or paganism; heathenish; paganish. [R.] "The paganic fables of the goods." Cudworth.Pa*gan"ic*al*ly, adv. [R.]

Paganish
(Pa"gan*ish) a. Of or pertaining to pagans; heathenish. "The old paganish idolatry." Sharp

Paganism
(Pa"gan*ism) n. [L. paganismus: cf. F. paganisme. See Pagan, and cf. Painim.] The state of being pagan; pagan characteristics; esp., the worship of idols or false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans; heathenism.

Paganity
(Pa*gan"i*ty) n. [L. Paganitas.] The state of being a pagan; paganism. [R.] Cudworth.

Paganize
(Pa"gan*ize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paganized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Paganizing ] To render pagan or heathenish; to convert to paganism. Hallywell.

Paganize
(Pa"gan*ize), v. i. To behave like pagans. Milton.

Paganly
(Pa"gan*ly), adv. In a pagan manner. Dr. H. More.

Page
(Page) n. [F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr. Gr. paidi`on, dim. of pai^s, paido`s, a boy, servant; perh. akin to L. puer. Cf. Pedagogue, Puerile.]

1. A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.

He had two pages of honor — on either hand one.
Bacon.

2. A boy child. [Obs.] Chaucer.

3. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.

4. (Brickmaking.) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

5. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.

Page
(Page), v. t. To attend (one) as a page. [Obs.] Shak.

Page
(Page), n. [F., fr. L. pagina; prob. akin to pagere, pangere, to fasten, fix, make, the pages or leaves being fastened together. Cf. Pact, Pageant, Pagination.]

1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.

Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
Longfellow.

2. Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.

3. (Print.) The type set up for printing a page.

Page
(Page), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Paging ] To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.

Pageant
(Pag"eant) (paj"ent or pa"jent; 277), n. [OE. pagent, pagen, originally, a movable scaffold or stage, hence, what was exhibited on it, fr. LL. pagina, akin to pangere to fasten; cf. L. pagina page,

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