Extended Annotations

pagan

Ancestral Lore of pagan

from Latin paganus, pagana "rural, rustic, of the country, civilian/non-military"

the civilian/non-military meaning was in reference to "not a soldier of Christ"

pagan adjective

pagan noun

an individual who resides beyond the artificium and outside of urban areas, by choice

That is all pagan means. Meanwhile:

a person who practices a contemporary form of paganism
a person who is not religious or whose religion is not Judaism, Islam, or especially Christianity; heathen
one who has little or no religion and who delights in sensual pleasures and material goods : a nonreligious hedonistic person

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~☉~	lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
⚜	classic definition
☣	artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense