atheous

comparative more atheous · superlative most atheous

1. obsoleteAtheistic.

   In atheous men conscience becomes a scourge.

   1792, David Lloyd, The Voyage of Life: A Poem. in Nine Books, volume 3, C. Dilly, page 46

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   It is an ignorant conceit, that enquiry into nature should make men atheous: no man is so apt to see the star of Christ, as a diligent disciple of philosophy.

   1612, Joseph Hall, “The Sages and the Star”, in Contemplations upon the principal passages of the holie storie

   Thy Father, who is holy, wiſe and pure, Suffers the Hypocrite or Atheous Prieſt To tread his Sacred Courts...

   1671, John Milton, Paradise regain'd, a poem in IV books: to which is added Samson Agonistes, London: John Starkey, →OL, The First Book, page 487

2. obsoleteWithout God, neither accepting nor denying him.

   I should say science was atheous, and therefore could not be atheistic.

   1880, Harvey Goodwin, “God and Nature”, in Popular Science