423 
Paeoniese 
ing of the genus Pseonia. and distinguished by 
the five to ten large and broad petals, and the ' ~" Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 138. 
many-seeded carpels enveloped by a disk. paganicallyt (pa-gan'i-kal-i), adv. In a pagan 
paeonin (pe'9-nin) [< :>' + -"'-J A mamier . as a pag an. Cudworth. 
pageantry 
eists as spu- (6) A boy or young man who attends upon the members and 
officers of a legislative body while in session : as, a Senate 
pane; the pages in the House of Eepresentatives. 
stable- 
, . 
poisonous red coloring matter obtained tt rn 
pagan. 
g ee paganize. 
poisonous reu coloring uunix "" rjaeanise r. See pagantze. 
phenilic acid by the action of sulphuric and iJJ ^ {pa ' gan .i 8 h), a. [< 
oxalic acids. It gives to wool and silk brilliant *ji a thenish ; pertaining to or 
shades of crimson and scarlet. 
pseonyt, An obsolete form of peony. 
paff (paf), H. [< G. paff! pop! bang! piffpaff, 
pop! an interjection of contempt.] A mean- 
ingless syllable, used, with piff, to imitate what 
is regarded as jargon. 
Of a truth it often provokes me to laugh 
To see these beggars hobble along, 
Lamed and maimed, and fed upon chaff, 
Chanting their wonderful piff and paff. 
Longfellow, Golden Legend, v. 
pagadoret (pag'a-dor), . [< Sp. Pg. pagador, a 
payer : see payer.] A paymaster or treasurer. 
This is the manner of the Spaniards captaine, who never 
hath to meddle with his souldiers pay, and indeed scorn- 
eth to be counted his souldiers pagadore. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
pagan (pa'gan), . and a. [In ME. payen, paien, 
Sp. pagano = Pg. pagao, pagS = It.pagano, a pa- 
gan, heathen; < LL. paganus, a heathen, prop, 
adj., heathen, a later use of paganus, rustic, 
rural, as a noun a villager, countryman, peas- 
ant, rustic ; also (opposed to military) civil, civ- 
ic, as a noun a citizen; prop, of or pertaining 
to the country or to a village, < pagus, a district, 
province, the country : see pagus. Cf. heathen, 
lit. 'of the heath' or country. From L. paganus 
comes also ult. E. paynim, and from pagus, ult. 
E. pats' 2 and peasant.] I. n. I. One who is not 
a Christian or a member of a Christian commu- 
nity ; in a later narrower sense, one who does 
not worship the true God that is, is not a 
Christian, a Jew, or a Mohammedan; a hea- 
then. See the quotation from Trench ; see also 
paynim. 
Meuint [I find] ine the writinge thet amang thepaenes 
the prestes thet lokeden chastete ine the temple weren 
to-deld uram the othren thet hi ne loren hire chastete. 
Ayenbite of Inwyt (E. E. T. S.), p. 236. 
The Christian Church fixed itself first in the seats and 
centres of intelligence, in the towns and cities of the 
Roman Empire, and in them its first triumphs were won ; 
while long after these had accepted the truth, heathen 
superstitions and idolatries lingered on in the obscure 
hamlets and villages of the country ; so that pagans or 
villagers came to be applied to all the remaining votaries 
of the old and decaying superstitions, inasmuch as far 
the greater number of them were of this class. The first 
document in which the word appears in this its secon- 
dary sense is an edict of the Emperor Valentinian, of date 
A. D. 368. The word "heathen " acquired its meaning from 
exactly the same fact, namely, that at the introduction 
of Christianity into Germany the wild dwellers on the 
" heaths " longest resisted the truth. 
Trench, Study of Words, p. 102. 
lagan + -ish 1 .] 
characteristic of 
pagans. Bp. Hall. 
paganism (pa'gan-izm), N. [= F. pagamsme, 
OF. paienisme (}'E. paynim, q. v.) = Sp. Pg. pa- 
ganismo = It. paganismo, paganesmo, paganesi- 
mo, < LL. paganismus, heathenism, < paganus, 
heathen: we pagan.] The religious beliefs and 
practices of pagans; religious opinion, wor- 
ship, and conduct which is not Christian, Jew- 
ish, or Mohammedan. 
In the country districts paganism & the name indi- 
cates) lingered longest, 
paganityt (pa-gan'i-ti), n. [= OF. paienete, 
payennete, etc., < LL. paganita(t-)s, heathen- 
ism, < paganus, heathen: see pagan.'] The 
state of being a pagan ; paganism. Cudworth, 
Intellectual System, p. 561. 
' and pp. pagan- 
paganiser = It. 
..., , f -, -i act as a pagan, 
< i,. paganus, pagan: see pagan and -4ze.] I. 
trans. To render pagan; convert to heathenism; 
adapt to pagan systems or principles. 
God's own people were sometimes so miserably depraved 
and paganized as to sacrifice their sons and daughters unto 
devils. HaUywell, Melampronoja (1681), p. 29. 
The week was accepted for its convenience ; but while 
accepted it was paganized; and the seven days were allot- 
ted to the five planets and the sun and moon. 
Fronde, Cassar, p. 473. 
II. intrans. To adopt pagan customs or prac- 
tices ; become pagan. 
This was that which made the old Christians Paganize, 
thenisme they did no more, when they had done thir ut- 
most, but bring some Pagans to Christianize. 
Muton, On Def. of Humb. Remonst. 
Also spelled paganise. 
paganlyt (pa'gan-li), adv. In a pagan manner. 
Dr. H. More, Immortality of the Soul, i. 14. 
page 1 (paj), n. [< ME. page, < OF. page, F.page 
= Sp. Pg. It. pagina = D. G. Dan. Sw. pagina, 
< L. pagina, a page, writing, leaf, slab, plate, 
ML. also a card, book, and prob. plank (see 
pageant), <pangere, O\j.pagere,pacere, fasten: 
see pact. From the same source (L. pagina) 
are pagine and pageant, and pagination, etc.] 
1. One side of a written or printed leaf, as of a 
book or pamphlet. A folio volume contains 2 leaves 
or 4 pages in every sheet ; a quarto (4to), 4 leaves or 8 
ing. 
<et)A 
ile-boy; a groom. 
Page of a stabylle, equarius, stabularium. 
Prompt. Pan., p. 377. 
(d) A shepherd's servant, whether boy or man. HalliweU. 
[Local, Eng.] 
2f. In general, a child ; a boy; a lad. 
A child that was of half yeer age, 
In cradel it lay, ami was a propre page. 
Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 52. 
A braver page into his age 
Ne'er set a foot upon the plain. 
The Weary Coble o' Cargill (Child's Ballads, III. 32). 
3. A contrivance of cord and steel clips for 
holding up a woman's train or skirt to prevent 
it from dragging on the ground. Imp. Diet. 
Plover's page, some small bird found in company with 
plovers, as the dunlin or purre. [West of Scotland.] 
(paj), v. t. ; pret. and pp. paged, ppr. pag- 
[< page 2 , n.] To attend as a page. 
Will these moss'd trees, 
That have outlived the eagle, page thy heels, 
And skip when thou point'st out? 
Shak.,T. of A.,iv. 3.224. 
pageant (paj'ant or pa'jant), n. and a. [< ME. 
pagent, pagiant, pagiaunt, padr/iant, paiande, 
payante, with excrescent -t; earlier pagen, pa- 
gyn, a scaffold, < ML. pagina, a scaffold, a stage 
for public shows, < L. pagina, a leaf, slab (ML. 
also prob. plank): see page 1 -.] I. . If. A 
scaffold, in general movable (moving on four 
wheels, as a car or float), on which shows, spec- 
tacles, and plays were represented in the mid- 
dle ages ; a stage or platform ; a triumphal car, 
chariot, arch, statue, float, or other object 
forming part of or carried in public shows and 
processions. 
And bytwene euery of the pagentii went lytell children 
of bothe kyndes, gloryously and rychely dressyd. 
Sir A. Ouylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 8. 
In 1500, " the cartwryghts [are] to make iiij new wheles 
to the pagiaunt." York Plays, Int., p. xxxv. 
The maner of these playes were, every company had his 
pagiant, or p't e , wd> pagianti weare a high scafold w'th 2 
rowmes, a higher and a lower, upon 4 wheels. In the low- 
er they apparelled themselves, and in the higher rowme 
they played, beinge all open on the tope, that the behould- 
ers might heare and see them. The places where they 
played them was in every streete. 
Quoted in A. W. Ward's Eng. Dram. Lit., I. S2. 
At certain distances, in places appointed for the purpose, 
the pageants were erected, which were temporary build- 
ings representing castles, palaces, gardens, rocks, or for- 
ests, as the occasion required. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 26. 
2. The play performed upon such a scaffold or 
platform; a spectacle; a show; an entertain- 
ment ; a theatrical exhibition ; hence, a proces- 
sion or parade with stately or splendid accom- 
or t pages in every DUCCI< , a qiunui \*wy, * JC<*TCI a* i 
pages; an octavo (8vo), 8 leaves or 16 pages; a duodecimo paniments; a showy display. 
(12mo), 12 leaves or 24 pages ; and an octodecimo (18mo), 
18 leaves or 36 pages. Abbreviated p., plural pp. 
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a 
neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of 
margin. Sheridan, School for Scandal, i. 1. 
2. A heathenish or ungodly person ; in old 2. In printing, types, or types and ^ cuts, prop- 
slang, a prostitute. 
In all these places [villages out of London] 
I have had my several pagans billeted 
For my own tooth. Massinger, City Madam, ii. 1. 
=Syn. 1. Heathen, etc. See gentile, n. 
H. a. Pertaining to the worship or worship- 
ers of any religion which is neither Christian, 
Jewish, nor Mohammedan ; heathenish ; irre- 
ligious. 
What a pagan rascal is this ! an infidel ! 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 3. 31. 
With high devotion was the service made, 
And all the rites of pagan honour paid. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., ill. 952. 
A herald of God's love to pagan lands. 
Cowper, Charity, 1. 136. 
erly arranged as to length and width for print- 
ing on one side of the leaf of a book or pam- 
phlet. 3. Any writing or printed record: as, 
the page of history ; also, figuratively, a book : 
as, the sacred page. 
But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, 
Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll. 
Gray, Elegy. 
Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth 
Inherfairpaje. Bryant, The Ages. 
4. In the manufacture of bricks by hand-mold- 
ing, a slideway formed of iron rails on wooden 
supports. Each brick, as molded, is laid on a thin 
piece of board called a pallet, and slid on the page to the 
taking-off boy, to be wheeled away to the hack-ground. 
[Eng.] Even page. See even*. Full page, in printing, 
a page containing its full complement of printed lines. 
paganalia (pa-ga-na'li-a), n. pi. [L., < paga- page 1 (paj), r. /.; pret. and pp. paged, ppr. pag- p 
nus, of a village: see pagan.] laBom.antiq.,a. ing. [< page 1 , n.) 1. To mark or number the 
local annual festival celebrated by every pagus, pages of (a book or manuscript). 2. To make 
or fortified village with its surrounding district, up (composed type) into pages. 
[< pagan + -dom.] page 2 (paj), n. [< WE. page = D. paadje^ pagie 
pagandom (pa'gan-dum), . 
Pagans collectively ; pagan peoples as a whole. 
All pagandom recognized a female priesthood. 
If. A. Rev., CXL. 390. 
paganict (pa-gan'ik), a. [= OF. paienique = 
It. paganicO) < LL. paganicus, heathenish, L. 
rural, rustic, < paganus, a rustic, LL. a hea- 
then : see pagan.] Of or pertaining to the pa- 
gans; relating to pagans; pagan. 
Notwithstanding which, we deny not but that there was 
also in the paganick fables of the Gods a certain mixture 
of History and Herology interserted, and complicated all 
along together with Physiology. 
Cudworth, intellectual System, p. 239. 
paganicalt (pa-gan'i-kal), a. [< paganic + -al.] 
Same as paganic. 
= G. Sw. Dan. page, < OF. page, paige, F. page 
(Sp. paje = Pg. pagem, after F.) = mod. Pr. 
pagi = It. paggio, < ML. pagius, a servant, prob. 
Any forein vsing any part of the same craft that cumyth 
into this citie to sell any bukes or to take any warke to 
wurk shall pay to the vp-holding of their padyiant yerelie 
iiijd. Quoted in York Plays, Int., p. xxxix. 
If you will see a pageant truly play'd, . . . 
Go hence a little and I shall conduct you, 
If you will mark it. Shak. , As you Like it, iii. 4. 55. 
We see the pageants in Cheapside, the lions and the ele- 
phants ; but we do not see the men that carry them : we 
see the judges look big, look like lions ; but we do not see 
who moves them. Selden, Table-Talk, p. 59. 
In the first pageant, or act, the Deity is represented seated 
on his throne by himself. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 229. 
Once In a while, one meets with a single soul greater 
than all the living pageant which passes before It. 
0. W. Holmes, Autocrat, x. 
3. Hangings of tapestry and the like decorated 
with scenes, incidents, etc. 
II. a. Brilliant and showy; ostentatious. 
Were she ambitious, she'd disdain to own 
The pageant pomp of such a servile throne. 
Dryden, Indian Emperor, v. 1. 
;eantt (paj'ant or pa'jant), v. t. [< pageant, 
j To exhibit in show ; flaunt. 
With ridiculous and awkward action, 
Which, slanderer, he imitation calls, 
Uepageants us. Shak., T. and C., i. 3. 151. 
To set a pompous face upon the superficial actings of 
State, to pageant himself up and down in Progress among 
the perpetual bowing and cringings of an abject People. 
Milton, Free Commonwealth. 
for pagensis, lit. a peasant, < li.pagus, country: pageant-houset (paj'ant-hous), . [ME. pa- 
seepagan. The supposed derivation < Gr. vat- gent house, pagiaunt house; < pageant + house 1 .] 
i 1 /j:_ _i -.. The building in which the movable stages called 
pageants, used in medieval plays and proces- 
sions, were kept when not in use. York Plays, 
Int., p. xxxvi. 
pageantry (paj'an-tri or pa'jan-tri), . [< pa- 
geant + -ry.] Pageants collectively; theatrical 
display ; splendid display in general. 
What pageantry, what feats, what shows . . . 
The regent made in Mytilene 
To greet the king. Shak., Pericles, v. 2. 6. 
Siov, a little boy, a young slave (dim. of ^nif, a 
boy, servant), is untenable.] 1. A male ser- 
vant or attendant. Especially (o) A boy attendant 
upon a person of rank or distinction ; a lad in the service 
of a person of rank or wealth. 
With Neptune's pages oft disporting in the deep. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, i. 113. 
The laird's page or henchman, who remained in the 
apartment to call for or bring whatever was wanted, or, 
in a word, to answer the purposes of a modern bell-wire. 
Scott, Legend of Montrose, v. 
