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Menapian, n. and a.|mɪˈnæpɪən, mɪˈneɪpɪən|
[f. L. Menapii, the name of this people + -ian.]
A. n.
1. Roman Hist. A member of the Menapii, a Celtic people of northern Gaul.
1565A. Goldinge Eyght Bookes of Caesar Gloss. p. Mmv, Menapians, the people of Gelderlande and Cleveland, or as some suppose the people of Juliers in Belgicke. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. xiii. 363 Gessoriacum, or Boulogne, in the narrow straights of the British channel, was chosen by the emperor for the station of the Roman fleet; and the command of it was intrusted to Carausius, a Menipean of the meanest origin. 1819J. Lingard Hist. Engl. I. i. 46 The Menapian [sc. Carausius] unexpectedly fortified Boulogne, concluded an alliance with the barbarians, sailed to Britain,..and, assuming, with the imperial purple, the name of Augustus, set at defiance the whole power of Rome. 1993P. Salway Oxf. Illustr. Hist. Roman Britain 200 In charge of his countermeasures, Maximian put an officer called M. Mausaeus Carausius, by origin a Menapian from the Low Countries.
2. Geol. The Menapian glaciation.
1983T. Nilsson Pleistocene x. 138 Recent results also point to a potential split-up of the Menapian into two cold portions, separated by a warm interlude. 1990A. & M. Allaby Conc. Oxf. Dict. Earth Sci. 170/2 The Günz may correlate with the Menapian of northern Europe.
B. adj.
1. Roman Hist. Of or pertaining to the Menapians. rare.
1757J. Dyer Fleece III. 107 On Albion's coast, the exil'd band, From rich Menapian towns, and the green banks of Scheld alighted.
2. Geol. Of, pertaining to, or designating the first major Pleistocene glaciation in northern Europe (possibly corresponding to the Günz of the Alps) or its deposits.
1957W. H. Zagwijn in Geol. en Mijnbouw XIX. 235/2 The basal glacial has been named by the author Eburonian, the following interglacial Waalian or Waal Interglacial, and the next glacial Menapian. 1983T. Nilsson Pleistocene x. 137 Strata intermediate between the Eburonian and the Menapian cold stages provide evidence of a genial climate. |