Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pagoda; hence, any Oriental temple.
- noun An image of a deity; an idol.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A pagoda.
- noun obsolete An idol.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
pagoda . - noun obsolete An
idol .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tyrant or liberator, lawgiver or law-breaker, depending on how you look at him, Byron's "little pagod" remains, for his admirers, the incarnation of the romantic genius.
How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo Frederic Raphael 2011
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Ako ay hindi kahit na dalawampung minuto sa pagsakay at ang aking leeg ay na pagod mula sa labanan ng hangin.
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Indian pagod, than to a temple built upon the principles of the
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Out ng lahat ng bagay, ang pagod, likod ng panganganak, panahon na nasayang, ang pinakamasama ay ang hipnosis.
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Bedlam, who fancies himself Napoleon Buonaparte, or any other pagod, you will be able to point out the delusion under which he labours, and to assure him that his social position, though respectable, was never imperial.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross
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At each spontaneous tribute rendered by the wayfarers to this black pagod of a fellow -- the tribute of a pause and stare, and less frequent an exclamation, -- the motley retinue showed that they took that sort of pride in the evoker of it which the Assyrian priests doubtless showed for their grand sculptured Bull when the faithful prostrated themselves.
Billy Budd 1924
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No, my lords, justice is not this halt and miserable object; it is not the ineffective bauble of an Indian pagod; it is not the portentous phantom of despair; it is not like any fabled monster, formed in the eclipse of reason, and found in some unhallowed grove of superstitious darkness and political dismay!
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My hypochondriac, with his head buried in a night-cap that covers his eyes, has the air of an immovable pagod, with a string tied to its chin, and going down under his chair.
Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880
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No, I think even now I hear you calling upon me to turn from this vile libel, this base caricature, this Indian pagod, formed by the hand of guilty and knavish tyranny, to dupe the heart of ignorance, -- to turn from this deformed idol to the true Majesty of
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 Thomas Moore 1815
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----, Napoleon, one of the most extraordinary of men that anakim of anarchy poor little pagod ode on his fall fortune's favourite
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
bilby commented on the word pagod
Ah, the Deity of Thai villas.
January 30, 2009