paganist

In mid-1600s England, the Puritans started suppressing Christmas because they thought it was rooted in paganist superstition and had led to the kind of licentiousness that a modern-day observer might call Mobcaps Gone Wild; this bah-humbuggery spread to the colonies of New England.

Prætexta," to use Doran's words, "was a very respectable lady, married to a somewhat paganist husband, Hymetius.