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Anglian, a. and n.|ˈæŋglɪən|
[f. L. Anglī (see Angle n.3) + -an.]
Of or pertaining to the Angles. Often in combination, as East Anglian, of East Anglia or the East Angles, the Teutonic occupants of Norfolk and Suffolk; also used in reference to the same district in modern times.
The OE. adj. f. Engle was Englisc, now English, but as this was in course of time used of all the Teutonic occupants of Britain (and afterwards extended also to Danish, Norman-French and other immigrants), Anglian is conveniently used by modern writers to translate Englisc, in its early restricted sense, as distinct from Saxon.
1726Tindal Rapin's Hist. Eng. (1757) I. 192 Both the East-Anglian kings being slain. 1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tong. §23 That the whole Anglian vernacular literature should have perished. 1875Sweet in Philol. Soc. Trans. 561 There seem to have been three dialects, Anglian, Kentish, and Saxon. 1875Bibliogr. List of Eng. Dial. 50 On the principal characteristics of East Anglian pronunciation.
Add:2. Geol. Of, pertaining to, or designating a Pleistocene glaciation in Britain, identified with the Elsterian of northern Europe (and perhaps the Mindel of the Alps). Also absol.
1968Recomm. Stratigr. Classif. (Geol. Soc.) 20 It is recommended that for the Pleistocene and Holocene of the British Isles the following ages/stages be adopted as a regional scale... Pleistocene:... Anglian. 1973Nature 25 May 214/2 The ‘Anglian’ and the Wolstonian glaciations. 1977F. W. Shotton Brit. Quaternary Stud. xix. 271 Fossil-bearing lake and estuary muds and marine sands overlie Anglian rocks and underlie Devensian rocks at many sites in East Anglia and provide ample evidence for interglacial climatic conditions. 1983T. Nilsson Pleistocene ix. 114 According to this system, the oldest and most extensive glaciation is the Anglian. |