English citations of athean

Adjective: "(obsolete) atheistic, atheistical"

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  • 1605, Hugh Broughton, Certayne Qvestions Concerning  [], page 7:
    So your befooling of ſaying the Lords prayer, according to the expreſſe commaundement : and making phraſes of wordes: to meane matter of ſuch effect : and your excomunicating for Raptizing in the Dutch church: theſe deſperate Athean partes tell others, that you are not a church but a ſynagoge of Satan.
  • 1613, Lewis Bayly, “The Epistle Dedicatorie”, in The Practise of Pietie, Directing a Chriſtian how to walke that he may pleaſe God, 3rd edition,  [] Iohn Hodgets, page A4:
    [] who is not onely the defender of the faith by Title: but alſo a defender of the Faith in truth, as the Chriſtian World hath taken notice, by his learned confuting of Bellarmines ouer-ſpreading Hereſies : and his ſuppreſſing in the blade of Vorſtius Athean blaſphemies?
  • 1634, Iohn Canne [i.e, John Canne], A necessitie of separation from the Church of England,  [], page 109:
    Many by this meanes are brought into a great error, thinking that the ſame is ſcripture. 6. Theſe Apocripha bookes containe a number of ſhamefull lies, horrible blaſphemies, vaine vanities, plaine contradictions, ridiculous fooleries, Athean Impieties, Fables, fitter for Telemachus and Æneas, then for Gods people.