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Mesopotamian, a. and n.|mɛsəpəˈteɪmɪən|
[f. prec. + -an.]
a. adj. Pertaining to Mesopotamia.
b. n. A native or inhabitant of Mesopotamia (the larger part of which is now Iraq).
1616T. Coryat Traveller for English Wits 42 Your generosities most obliged Countreyman,..the Hierosolymitan - Syrian - Mesopotamian - Armenian - Median.., Thomas Coryate. 1673A. Woodhead Guide to Controversies Relig. (ed. 2) iii. viii. 283 The Assyrians, Persians, and Mesopotamians, are ranged also under a new Patriarch. 1880R. S. Poole in Encycl. Brit. XI. 808/2 Mesopotamian cuneiform. 1935Huxley & Haddon We Europeans vi. 175 A North Syrian group which received accretions from Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Hittite, Amorite, and perhaps other sources. 1952Gerth & Martindale tr. Weber's Anc. Judaism i. i. 6 The rise to political prominence of Babylonian power at the end of the third millenium and the continuous ascendancy of Babylon..constituted later aspects of Mesopotamian influence. 1954H. Frankfort Art & Archit. Anc. Orient p. xxv, The Mesopotamians congregated in cities. Ibid. 6 The Mesopotamian deeply felt the enormity of the presumption that man should offer residence to a deity. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VI. 820/1 Because religion provided the only total view of existence in ancient Mesopotamian civilization, religious themes, attitudes, and presuppositions were frequently included in quasi-secular writings. |