† heathenic, a. and n. Obs.
In 6 heathnick, 7 hethnike.
Var. of ethnic assimilated to heathen. So † heathnical a. = ethnical.
| 1554 Hooper in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) III. App. xxvii. 78 The sword of the heathnicks and gentils. 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1879) 177 Beare baiting and other exercyses..These Hethnicall exercyses vpon the Sabaoth day. Ibid. 185 More then Hethnicall impieties. 1632 Lithgow Trav. ix. 397 Whose presence to me after so long a sight of Hethnike strangers was exceeding comfortable. |