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- Superstitious - a. - Of or pertaining to superstition; proceeding from, or manifesting, superstition; as, superstitious rites; superstitious observances.
- Superstitious - a. - Evincing superstition; overscrupulous and rigid in religious observances; addicted to superstition; full of idle fancies and scruples in regard to religion.
- Superstitious - a. - Overexact; scrupulous beyond need.
- Pentacle - n. - A figure composed of two equilateral triangles intersecting so as to form a six-pointed star, -- used in early ornamental art, and also with superstitious import by the astrologers and mystics of the Middle Ages.
- Foreholding - n. - Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication.
- Talisman - n. - A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence.
- Mistletoe - n. - A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit.
- Deathwatch - n. - A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.
- Superstitious - a. - Of or pertaining to superstition; proceeding from, or manifesting, superstition; as, superstitious rites; superstitious observances.
- Cabalism - n. - A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes.
- Christcross-row - - The alphabet; -- formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm.
- Mumbo Jumbo - - An object of superstitious homage and fear.
- Bigot - n. - A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite.
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- G1174 δεισιδαιμονέστερος - 1174 δεισιδαιμονέστερος - ΔΕΙΣΙΔΑΙΜΟΝΈΣΤΕΡΟΣ - - deisidaimonésteros - dice-ee-dahee-mon-es'-ter-os - the compound of a derivative of the base of δειλός and δαίμων; more religious than others:--too superstitious. - Adjective - greek
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