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Syracusan, a. and n.|ˈsaɪərəˌkjuːzən|
[ad. L. Syrācūsānus, f. Syrācūsæ, Gr. συράκουσαι Syracuse + -an.]
a. adj. Of or belonging to Syracuse, a city in Sicily.
b. n. A native or inhabitant of Syracuse.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 220 Italian iunkets, and Syracusane deinties. 1611Cotgr., Petalisme, a forme..of banishment among the old Syracusans. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVII. 456/2 The city of Himera was..peopled by the Chalcidians and some Syracusan exiles. 1816J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 674 Grape,..red Syracusan. 1839Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. II. 435/2 Syracusan [marble]..was wrought from the latomia, which were quarries before Dionysius converted them into prisons. 1875Jevons Money xvi. 203 Dionysius..obliged the Syracusans to accept his tokens in place of silver coins. 1916Buchan Hist. War lxxix. XI. 36 The Syracusan expedition was the death-blow of the Athenian Empire.
So † Syraˈcusian a. and n. Obs. [cf. L. Syrācūsius, Gr. συρακούσιος].
1590Shakes. Com. Err. i. i. 14 It hath..beene decreed, Both by the Siracusians and our selues, To admit no trafficke to our aduerse townes. Ibid. i. ii. 3 A Syracusian Marchant. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. iv. Bion iii. (1687) 143/2 A Syracusian wrote of the Art of Rhetorick. 1769Swinton in Phil. Trans. LX. 85 Whose Greek inhabitants were probably for the most part either Syracusians, or of Syracusian extraction. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVII. 456/2 The Syracusians built Acræ, Chasmenæ, and Camarina. |