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heathen 音标拼音: [h'iðən] n. 异教徒,野蛮人,粗野的人
a. 异教的,野蛮的 异教徒,野蛮人,粗野的人异教的,野蛮的 heathen adj 1: not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam [ synonym: { heathen}, { heathenish}, { pagan}, { ethnic}] n 1: a person who does not acknowledge your god [ synonym: { heathen}, { pagan}, { gentile}, { infidel}] Heathen \ Hea" then\ ( h[= e]"[ th]' n), a. 1. Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author. " The heathen philosopher." " All in gold, like heathen gods." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Irreligious; scoffing. [ 1913 Webster]
Heathen \ Hea" then\ ( h[= e]"[ th]' n; 277), n.; pl. { Heathens} (-[ th]' nz) or collectively { Heathen}. [ OE. hethen, AS. h[= ae][ eth] en, prop. an adj. fr. h[= ae][ eth] heath, and orig., therefore, one who lives in the country or on the heaths and in the woods ( cf. pagan, fr. pagus village); akin to OS. h[= e][ eth] in, adj., D. heiden a heathen, G. heide, OHG. heidan, Icel. hei[ eth] inn, adj., Sw. heden, Goth. hai[ thorn] n[= o], n. fem. See { Heath}, and cf. { Hoiden}.] 1. An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater. [ 1913 Webster] 2. An irreligious person. [ 1913 Webster] If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens. -- V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster] { The heathen}, as the term is used in the Scriptures, all people except the Jews; now used of all people except Christians, Jews, and Mohammedans. [ 1913 Webster] Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance. -- Ps. ii. 8. Syn: Pagan; gentile. See { Pagan}. [ 1913 Webster] 93 Moby Thesaurus words for " heathen": Gothic, Philistine, agnostic, allotheist, allotheistic, animist, animistic, atheist, atheistic, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bibliolatrous, bookless, chthonian, deceived, disbeliever, disbelieving, doubting, ethnic, faithless, fetishistic, functionally illiterate, gentile, godless, grammarless, heathenish, heretic, heretical, hoodwinked, idol worshiping, idolater, idolatress, idolatric, idolatrical, idolatrous, idolistic, ill- educated, illiterate, infidel, infidelic, irreligious, led astray, lowbrow, minimifidian, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, nonbeliever, nonintellectual, nullifidian, pagan, paganish, paganistic, pagano- Christian, pantheistic, polytheist, polytheistic, primitive, profane, rude, savage, sceptic, sceptical, secularist, unbeliever, unbelieving, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, unchristian, uncivilized, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated, unenlightened, unerudite, unguided, uninstructed, unintellectual, unlearned, unlettered, unliterary, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unstudious, untaught, untutored, zoolatrousHeathen ( Heb. plural goyum). At first the word _goyim_ denoted generally all the nations of the world ( Gen. 18: 18; comp. Gal. 3: 8). The Jews afterwards became a people distinguished in a marked manner from the other _goyim_. They were a separate people ( Lev. 20: 23; 26: 14- 45; Deut. 28), and the other nations, the Amorites, Hittites, etc., were the _goyim_, the heathen, with whom the Jews were forbidden to be associated in any way ( Josh. 23: 7; 1 Kings 11: 2). The practice of idolatry was the characteristic of these nations, and hence the word came to designate idolaters ( Ps. 106: 47; Jer. 46: 28; Lam. 1: 3; Isa. 36: 18), the wicked ( Ps. 9: 5, 15, 17). The corresponding Greek word in the New Testament, _ethne_, has similar shades of meaning. In Acts 22: 21, Gal. 3: 14, it denotes the people of the earth generally; and in Matt. 6: 7, an idolater. In modern usage the word denotes all nations that are strangers to revealed religion.
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