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nomadic, a.|nəʊˈmædɪk|
[ad. Gr. νοµαδικός, f. νοµαδ- nomad: see -ic.]
1. Characterized by, or leading, a wandering life.
1818Todd, Nomadick,..having no fixed abode [etc.]. 1850W. Irving Mahomet II. 476 Persians and Copts, and nomadic Africans. 1859Marcy Prairie Trav. vi. 218 The mode of life of the nomadic tribes. 1882Pitman Mission Life Gr. & Palest. 298 A large..nomadic population.
transf.1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 97 The American is nomadic in religion, in ideas, in morals. 1869P. Landreth Adam Thomson I. 64 Seceders were far from being ‘nomadic’ hearers.
b. Of birds or beasts.
1876E. White Life in Christ. i. v. 45 Vast battalions of nomadic birds. 1877J. A. Allen Amer. Bison 465 The buffalo is quite nomadic in its habits.
2. Peculiar to, distinctive of, a wandering people or manner of life.
1825Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) II. 326 Their brethren..who still sojourned in the nomadic state. 1835Sir J. Ross Narr. 2nd Voy. xl. 530 Our march had a very nomadic..appearance. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. 125 The patriarchs could here gradually exchange the nomadic life for the pastoral. 1872Baker Nile Trib. vi, In their nomadic habits they retain the..formalities of the distant past.
3. Path. (See quot.)
1842Dunglison Med. Lex. s.v. Nomad, The word Nomadic has been applied to spreading ulcer.
So noˈmadical a.; noˈmadically adv.
1799Chron. in Ann. Reg. 421 A numerous nomadical nation, who derived their subsistance from their flocks of sheep. 1862R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 124 When Europe was thinly and nomadically peopled, and tribes migrated in mass. |