pagan
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pagan XIV. — L.
pāgānus rustic, peasant, citizen, civilian, (in ChrL.) non-Christian, non-Jewish, f.
pāgus (rural) district, the country, orig. land-mark fixed in the earth, f. IE. *
paĝ- as in L.
pangere fix; see
-AN. The sense ‘heathen’ of L.
pāgānus is of uncert. orig.
Hence
paganism XV.
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