dragonism

watchful guardianship

Those who pique themselves on "l'eloquence du billet;" those fair Scribblerinas just emancipated from boarding-school restraint, or from the dragonism of their governesses, just beginning to pour out their pretty souls in the refined intercourse of sentimental, confidential, ineffable correspondence, […]

Those who pique themselves on the elegant style of their billets, or those fair scriblerinas just emancipated from boarding school restraints, or the dragonism of their governess, just beginning to taste the refined enjoyments of sentimental, confidential, soul-breathing correspondence with some Angelina, Seraphina, or Laura Matilda; to indite beautiful little notes, with long tailed letters, upon vellum paper, with pink margins, sealed with sweet mottoes, and dainty devices, the whole deliciously perfumed with musk and attar of roses;

Despotism; the leadership of a tyrant.

Fix your eye, then, as I attempted to do, on the places and time when the Puritans were driven to extremities by the persucutions of Jesuits, [a church with temporal power,] and other enemies of the pure, evangelical truth; and see to what region fro the body of the best of that people , did in fact flee from the face of the Papal dragon, [and those who exerted the spiritual, selfish tyranny denoted by dragonism,] in some far distant realm.

I fear dragonism, in some form or other, will deluge Europe, the British Isles, and various parts of the world besides, with torrents of human blood.

Nonsense; unrealistic ideas.

It will be a last effort in behalf of a darling cause. Dragonism, infidelity, and false religion, will now be found, each making its last effort!

These doctrines, of which the inspire apostle is admitted as the "chief corner-stone", he characterizes as "Dragonism", a "congeries of falsities", and as "favoring the natural and sensual man".

Dragon lore.

So that he, as the god Janus of pagan dragonism, sitteth in the more modern temple of Tau-tau-r-ism, shewing himself, and declaring to the world, that he is god (Janus) of the last dispensation, to whom the dragon or devil gave his chair, possessing the keys of the Dor's, Thor's or Tor's hole or hall, which open and shut the gate or way leading from light immortal, eternal glory, to the regions of the damned.

I've heard all the human lore of Eastern Dragonism, all the way back to the primal yin and yang and the plenitude of explanations of how it's best done .