資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Atheous \A"the*ous\, a. [Gr. ? without God. See {Atheist}.]
   1. Atheistic; impious. [Obs.] --Milton.

   2. Without God, neither accepting nor denying him.

            I should say science was atheous, and therefore
            could not be atheistic.               --Bp. of
                                                  Carlisle.