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Ionian, a. and n.|aɪˈəʊnɪən|
[f. L. Iōni-us, a. Gr. Ἰώνιος + -an. Cf. mod.F. ionien.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to the district Ionia or to the Ionians (see B.); Ionic.
Ionian Sea, the part of the Mediterranean between Greece and Southern Italy; Ionian Islands, the seven Greek islands which lie on the eastern coast of this sea.
1594R. Ashley tr. le Roy's Interch. Var. Things 61 a, Thales..was the author of the Ionian sect. 1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1651) 231 The Capitall dressed on each side..in a spirall wreathing, which they call the Ionian Voluta. 1632Lithgow Trav. ii. 66, I left the turmoyling dangers of the intricated Iles, of the Ionean and Adriaticall seas. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. 20 If Ovid in that straight Ionian Deep Was lost so hard, much more are we on Seas of larger Bounds. 1835Thirlwall Greece I. 87 Xuthus..through his sons, Ion and Achæus..was considered as the forefather of the Achæan and the Ionian tribes. 1838Ibid. II. 139 Less intimately connected with the Ionian schools. 1839Penny Cycl. XIII. 14 Ionian Islands is the name given to the seven islands of Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Paxo, and Cerigo, which are scattered along the coast of Epirus and of the Peloponnesus. 1900U.P. Magazine Feb. 68/1 Some hundreds of hardy Ionian oarsmen from Phocee.
2. Mus. Ionian mode.
a. One of the modes in ancient Greek music, characterized as soft and effeminate.
b. The last of the ‘authentic’ ecclesiastical modes, having C for its ‘final’, and G for its ‘dominant’, and thus corresponding to the modern major diatonic scale.
1844Beck & Felton tr. Munk's Metres 289 The Greeks had seven principal modes, the Dorian, Aeolian..and Ionian. Ibid. 290 The Ionian..Plato rejects as effeminate. 1867Macfarren Harmony ii. 35 At last, under the name of the Ionian mode, our modern scale of C. 1893H. E. Wooldridge in Chappell's O.E. Pop. Mus. I. p. xi, Popular Scale of C. Called in the 16th century the 13th or Ionian Mode.
B. n. A member of that great division of the Hellenic race, which occupied Attica and the northern coast of the Peloponnesus, and established colonies in Sicily, Italy, Gaul, on the shores and islands of the Euxine, and especially in Asia Minor, where a large district was named from them Ionia.
b. An Ionian Islander.
1563Shute Archit. C iv b, Ionica..was deuised by the Ionians and set in the temple of Diana. 1807Robinson Archæol. Græca v. xxi. 521 The Ionians delighted in wanton dances and songs more than the rest of the Greeks..and wanton gestures were proverbially termed Ionic motions. 1839Penny Cycl. XIII. 13 Miletus seems to have fallen to the share of the Athenian Ionians..Another party of Ionians under Androclus took possession of Ephesus. 1898J. McCarthy Story Gladstone xvii. 192 The Ionians had one uncompromising grievance. |