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Leucadian, n. and a.|l(j)uːˈkeɪdɪən|
[f. Leucadia (see below) + -ian.]
A. n. A native or inhabitant of Leucadia or Leucas, an island in the Ionian Sea.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Leucadia.
1615G. Sandys Rel. Journey i. 4 It was a custome amongst the Leucadians in their yearely solemnities, as a propitiatory sacrifice to Apollo, to throw some one from the top, condemned before for his offences. 1890J. G. Frazer Golden Bough II. iii. 213 From the Lover's Leap, a white bluff at the southern end of their island, the Leucadians used annually to hurl a criminal into the sea as a scapegoat. 1952R. Campbell tr. Baudelaire's Poems 181 Since then I watch on the Leucadian height. 1968Encycl. Brit. XIII. 998/2 It was from the extremity..of this cape that in ancient times the ‘Leucadian leap’ was made, an ordeal whereby at the feast of Apollo accused persons were tried, those who survived the leap being picked up by boat. |