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Icenian, n. and a.|aɪˈsiːnɪən|
Also Icenæan |aɪsiːˈniːən|.
[See -ian.]
A. n. A member of the Iceni, an ancient British tribe inhabiting the district roughly corresponding to modern Norfolk and Suffolk.
1598R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus' Annales xiv. x. 209 The chiefest of the Icenians..were dispossessed of al their ancient inheritance. 1670Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 55 The Icenians, a stout people untouch'd yet by these Warrs. 1864Tennyson Boadicea in En. Ard. 169 Hear Icenian, Catieuchlanian, hear Coritanian, Trinobant!
B. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to the Iceni or the district they inhabited. Also Iˈcenic a.
1757J. Dyer Fleece iii. 72 This method still Norvicum favours, and the Icenian towns. 1830Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia, Mem. p. xxxix, With only one more extract I will close what remains to be said respecting the Icenian Glossary. c1873A. D. Bayne Royal Illustr. Hist. E. Eng. I. 393 Some Icenic names are supposed to remain in several towns of Norfolk and Suffolk. Ibid. 395 There are thousands of pits in many places, and these are supposed to have been the foundations of Icenian huts. 1900W. A. Dutt Norfolk 39 Some authorities have suggested that that important Icenic settlement was at Caistor. 1921R. A. S. Macalister Text-bk. Europ. Archæol. I. 158 To this type of flint, or to the supposed industry which it represents, has been given the name Icenian. 1962T. C. Lethbridge Witches vii. 95 Hiccafrith becomes the Sun husband of the Icenaean moon and horse goddess, Ma Gog.
2. Geol. Applied to the Norwich Crag, Chillesford Beds, and Weybourne Crag of Norfolk and Suffolk (sometimes, to the Norwich Crag alone) and to the period when they were deposited, formerly regarded as late Pliocene but now held to be early Pleistocene; occas. used as the epithet of a stratigraphical stage in Britain. Also absol.
1896Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LII. 782 He [sc. H. B. Woodward] was..glad that Mr. Harmer now agreed that the beds belonged to one formation; and if it were desirable to use a term that should correspond with the other group-names used by the Author, he would suggest that the old term ‘Icenian’ be used for this Norwich Crag Series. 1900F. W. Harmer in Ibid. LVI. 721 For the deposits hitherto known as Norwich Crag.., which extend..from Aldeburgh in Suffolk to Horstead and Burgh in Norfolk, a distance of more than 40 miles in one direction, and 20 miles, from Hoxne to Southwold, in another, I adopt the name Icenian, originally proposed for the Crag-formation generally by S. P. [sic] Woodward. Ibid., The Icenian Period. 1931Gregory & Barrett Gen. Stratigr. xvi. 228 The Sicilian Series is represented in England by the Norwich Crag, Chillesford Beds, and Weybourne Crags, which were grouped by Harmer as the Icenian. 1957J. K. Charlesworth Quaternary Era II. xxxii. 697 The impoverished state of many Icenian shells may (doubtfully) have been due to a freshened North Sea which resulted when the Scandinavian ice..blocked the northern outlet of that sea. 1968R. G. West Pleistocene Geol. & Biol. xiii. 337 A major time of extinction [of species of mollusc] was after Icenian Crag times, and before the Hoxnian temperate stage. |