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/ˈpæɡəd/ · noun
(archaic, now rare) Synonym of idol, particularly in South and Southeast Asia..
1688, Gabriel Magalhaens, A New History of China, translator not credited, London: Thomas Newborough, p. 259, https://books.google.ca/books?id=fUQI3KVX4bIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false If they say that the King is more powerfull, How comes it then to pass, say we, that the King throws himself upon his Knees before the Pagod, and adores him by bowing his head to the Earth?
They worship idols called pagods, after such a terrible representation as we make of devils.
1705, William Wotton on A Tale of a Tub, in Jonathan Swift: The Critical Heritage, Kathleen Williams (ed.), 2002, London: Routledge, p. 46, How strictly do the Banians, and the other Sects of the Gentile East-Indians worship their Pagods, and respect their Temples?
1814, Lord Byron, Journal in Thomas Moore, The Life of Lord Byron, with his Letters and Journals, London: John Murray, 1854, p.233, https://books.google.ca/books?id=oa88AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Offered to take Scrope home in my carriage; but he was tipsy and pious, and I was obliged to leave him on his knees praying to I know not what purpose or pagod.
A Drawing Room mantelpiece of the 1740s... was decorated with a classical bust enveloped by a motley assemblage of ‘pagods’ and whimsical Oriental figures.
At each spontaneous tribute rendered by the wayfarers to this black pagod of a fellow—the tribute of a pause and stare, and less frequent an exclamation,—the motley retinue showed that they took that sort of pride in the evoker of it which the Assyrian priests doubtless showed for their grand sculptured Bull when the faithful prostrated themselves.
1735, Alexander Pope, Satire IV, Satires, in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, edited by Henry Walcott Boynton, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903, lines 364-7, http://www.bartleby.com/203/156.html 'T would burst ev'n Heraclitus with spleen / To see those antics, Fobling and Courtin: / The Presence seems, with things so richly odd, / The mosque of Mahound, or some queer pagod.
We went to vizet the antient monumentes of Japon, and amongst the rest the pagod, or monument, erected in remembrance of Ogosho Samma, the last Emperour, which, in my opinion, is the most magnificent peece of work which I have seene in Japon, both for the greatenesse and workmanship.
Use pagod when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pagod means (archaic, now rare) Synonym of idol, particularly in South and Southeast Asia..
Common synonyms include idol, particularly in South and Southeast Asia.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1688, Gabriel Magalhaens, A New History of China, translator not credited, London: Thomas Newborough, p. 259, https://books.google.ca/books?id=fUQI3KVX4bIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false If they say that the King is more powerfull, How comes it then to pass, say we, that the King throws himself upon his Knees before the Pagod, and adores him by bowing his head to the Earth?
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