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gentilic, a.|dʒɛnˈtɪlɪk|
Also 7 gentilique.
[f. L. gentīl-is gentile a. + -ic.]
†a. Heathen, pagan (obs.).
b. Tribal, national.
1604J. Gordoun Serm. 26 The Gentilique religion of the Druides. Ibid. 44 His Temple..was full of Gentilique Idolatrie. 1871tr. Lange's Comm., Jer. xxxv. 306 The house of the Rechabites must be taken in a gentilic sense. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. xlvii. 435 note, If Lydia be merely a Gentilic name. 1893Sayce Higher Criticism (1894) 189 The gentilic Sheshai may perhaps represent the Shasu or Bedawin of Southern Canaan. |