Asiatic
[,eiʃi'ætik]
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to Asia or to its inhabitants.
(n.) A native, or one of the people, of Asia.
Inputed by Hilary
Definition
adj. belonging to Asia: florid in literature or art.—n. Asiat′icism imitation of Asiatic or Eastern manners.
Typed by Kevin
Examples
- These are the Asiatic negroids. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He himself married a daughter of Darius, though already he possessed an Asiatic wife in Roxana, the daughter of the king of Samarkand. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If perchance some stricken Asiatic come among us, plague dies with him, uncommunicated and innoxious. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But we cannot go further into these complications of Asiatic theology. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The arts had been much influenced and revivified by Indian and Central Asiatic influences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The pioneer country, however, in the recovery of the Asiatic peoples was not China, but Japan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here we have merely to point to an apparent difference of idea between the Asiatic and African monarchies in this respect. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These extremely interesting Asiatic Christians are known in history as the Nestorian Church, and their influence extended into China. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In Russia the small Asiatic cockroach has everywhere driven before it its great congener. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He will, as a matter of course, take sides with Europeans against Asiatics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- An intellectual and moral rally of the Asiatics is going on at the present time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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