Odinism (odinizm)

[ We find the metropolis of med iæval Satan worship to have been the last stronghold of Odinism . Keary, Prim. Belief, x. odious (ō'di-us), a . [ odious , odios , odieus , F. odieux = Sp. Pg. It. odioso , odio sus , hateful, odious, odium , hatred: see odi um .] 1. Hateful or deserving of hatred; offensive; disgusting; causing or exciting hatred, dislike, disgust, or repugnance; repulsive; disagreeable; unpleasant: as, an odious person; an odious sight or smell. If new terms were not odious , we might very properly call him [the circumflex) the (wind about); for so is the Greek word. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 65. You told a lie; an odious , damned lie. Shak., Othello, v. 2. 180. Comparisons are odious . Congreve, Old Bachelor, ii. 2. I hate those odious muffs! Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 2. When my senses were a little collected, I asked for some arrack, the odious , poisonous stuff to be had at Kuchan; but it was the only stimulant available. O'Donovan, Merv, xi. 2. Hated; regarded with aversion or repugnance; obnoxious. They [the innkeepers) are so odious . that the better sort of people will not speake to them; and may not enter the Temple, Burse, or Bath. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 617. Our Lord of Canterbury is grown here so odious that they call him commonly in the Pulpit the Priest of Baal, and the Son of Belial. Howell , Letters, I. vi. 38. Had Civil is been succe ful, he would have been deified; but his misfortunes at last made him odious , in spite of his heroism. Motley, Dutch Republic, I. 15. odiously (ō'di-us-li), adv. In an odious manner; hatefully; in a manner to deserve or excite hatred or dislike; so as to cause hate: as, to behave odiously. .. It is sufficient for their purpose that the word sounds odiously, and is believed easily. South , Sermons, VI. iii. Arbitrary power no sober man can fear, either from the king's disposition or his practice; or even, where you would odiously lay it, from his ministers. Dryden. Ep. to the Whigs. The state or qual odiousne (o'di-us-nes), n. ity of being odious; hatefulne ; the quality that deserves or may excite hatred, disgust, or repugnance; the state of being hated or loathed: as, the odiousne of sin. This Roman garrison,... rather weighing the greatne of the booty than the odiousne of the villany by which it was gotten, resolved finally to make the like purchase by taking the like wicked course. Raleigh , Hist. World, V. i. 3. The long affection which the People have borne to it [the Reformation), what for it selfe, what for the odiousnes of Prelates, is evident. Milton , Reformation in Eng., ii. odism (ō'dizm or od'izm), n. [ od3 + -ism .] The doctrine of or belief in od; odylism. kins, etc.