pagod arch.
(ˈpægəd)
Also 6–8 pagode, 7 pagothe.
[ad. Pg. paˈgode (1516 in Yule): cf. F. paˈgode (1609 in Hatz.-Darm.): see next. The stressing ˈpagod occurs in Butler's Hudibras; Pope has paˈgod as well as ˈpagod.]
1. An idol temple: = next, 1.
| 1582 N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. i. xiv. 34 All the Kings doe dye in one Pagode, which is the house of praiers to their Idolls. 1588 Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China 402 Like a monasterie, the which the naturall people doo call Pagode. 1630 Lord Display Sects E. Ind. (Y.), That he should erect pagods for God's worship. 1653 H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. 114 A number of Temples, which they call Pagods. 1735 Pope Donne Sat. iv. 239 The mosque of Mahound, or some queer Pagod. 1829 Tennyson Timbuctoo, Her pagods hung with music of sweet bells. |
2. An image of a deity, an idol (esp. in India, China, etc.). (Often associated with god.)
| 1582 N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. lxviii. 140 And it is possible that..the Pagodes will not aide nor helpe me as they haue done before time. 1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav. 38, I have seene some of their Pagothes or Idols, in wood, resembling a man. 1664 Butler Hud. ii. ii. 534 Their Classick-Model prov'd a Maggot, Their Direct'ry an Indian Pagod. 1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) I. 322 His lordship admired the lions and pagods, and all the chimney ornaments. 1892 J. Payn Mod. D. Whittington I. 33 He looked more like some pagod than a man at all. |
b. fig. A person superstitiously or extravagantly reverenced, or otherwise likened to a heathen deity; an ‘idol’.
| 1719 D'Urfey Pills II. 315 Like the mad Pagod of the North, the Swede. 1738 Pope Epil. Sat. i. 157 See thronging Millions to the Pagod run, And offer Country, Parent, Wife, or Son! 1814 Byron Diary 8 Apr., [I] find my poor little pagod, Napoleon, pushed off his pedestal. 1861 Temple Bar Mag. I. 254 The most hideous pagod of cruelty, vice, and depravity, that ever lived. |
3. A gold (or silver) coin: = next, 3.
| 1598 W. Phillips Linschoten i. xxxv. 69/1 They are Indian and Heathenish money, with the picture of a Diuell vpon them, and therefore are called Pagodes. 1667 H. Oldenburg in Phil. Trans. II. 430 Esteemed at 20 old Pagodes in India, each Pagode being about 10 shillings English. 1698 Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 34 The Coin current here [Gulconda] is a Pagod, 8s. 1704 Collect. Voy. (Churchill) III. 822/2 A Pagode was formerly no more than 84 Stivers but is since raised to 120. a 1845 Hood To Lady on Dep. India. x, Go to the land of pagod and rupee. |
4. = pagoda sleeve: see pagoda 5.
| 1890 in Cent. Dict. (Pagode). |
5. attrib. and Comb.
| 1719 J. T. Philipps tr. Thirty-four Confer. 82 The Absurdities of the Pagod-worship. Ibid. 193 If they knew the Pagod-Gods they had in their Temples. 1814 Byron Ode to Napoleon iii, Those Pagod things of sabre-sway. 1859 Sala Gas-light & D. ii. 29 Busily stitching..sedent, and not squatting Pagod-like, all of a row. |