Noun

(en noun)

One of an order of priests among certain groups of Celts before the adoption of Abrahamic religions.

* 2004 , Fitch, E. J. Right Action and the environment: a common environmental catechism, fundamentalism, and political extremism. Interdisciplinary Environmental Review , 6(2), 132-139.

Druidic faiths to the loose coupling one found in the Roman rites. The ascendance to dominance, at least in terms of number of adherents, of the three monotheistic Abrahamic faiths marked a decline

Noun

(en noun)

A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human.

* {{quote-magazine

, year = 1952 , date = July , first = Mari , last = Wolf , authorlink = , title = Robots of the World! Arise! , url = http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31611 , magazine = , volume = 1 , issue = 3 , page = 76 , passage = It's crazy. They're swarming all over Carron City. They're stopping robots in the streets—household Robs, commercial Droids , all of them. They just look at them, and then the others quit work and start off with them. }}

* 1976 , , Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker , New York: Ballantine Books, p 77:

“These aren’t the ’droids you’re looking for,” Kenobi told him pleasantly.

* 1995 , J. D. Robb, Glory in Death , page 39:

The bartender was a droid , as most were, but she doubted this one had been programmed to listen cheerfully to customers' hard luck stories.