Assyrian
[ə'siriən]
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants.
(n.) A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria.
Typed by Gilda
Definition
adj. belonging to Assyria.—n. an inhabitant of Assyria: the language of Assyria.—ns. Assyriol′ogist; Assyriol′ogy the science of Assyrian antiquities.
Typist: Moira
Examples
- As we have already told in Chapter XVI, he was almost the last of the Assyrian monarchs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such shiftings about of population became a very distinctive part of the political methods of the Assyrian new empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have already noted the name of Sennacherib, the son of Sargon II, among the monarchs of the Assyrian Empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Assyrian princesses (a daughter of Esarhaddon, _e. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the Babylonian and Assyrian world the traders were predominantly the Semitic Arameans, the ancestors of the modern Syrians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He seems to have armed the Assyrian forces for the first time with iron weapons. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Politically the world seemed falling back towards personal monarchy of the Assyrian or Macedonian pattern. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the ninth century B.C. a people called the Medes, very closely related to the Persians to the east of them, appear in the Assyrian inscriptions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Across these Syrians the Assyrian kings fought for power and expansion south-westward. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was so used by the Assyrians and by the Chaldeans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It appears to have been unknown to the Assyrians and Egyptians, or if known, its knowledge confined to their wise men, as it does not appear in any of their monuments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Later, Gyges rebelled against Assyria, and sent troops to help Psammetichus I to liberate Egypt from its brief servitude to the Assyrians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This was the psaltery and the dulcimer of the Assyrians and the Hebrews. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The magnifying power of glass balls was known to the Chinese, Japanese, Assyrians and Egyptians, and a lens made of rock crystal was found among the ruins of Ninevah. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Aryan Scythians are for the Semitic Assyrians; the Aryan Medes for the Semitic Babylonians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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