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▪ I. Sabine, a. and n.1 Hist.|ˈsæbaɪn|
[ad. L. Sabīn-us adj. and n.]
A. adj.
a. Of or pertaining to the Sabines: see B.
1600Holland tr. Livy's Romane Hist. i. 8 And the youth of Rome upon a token and watch-word given, fell on every side to carrie away the Sabine maidens. 1606B. Jonson Hymenaei sig. Cv, The Speare, which (in the Sabine tongue) was called Curis. 1697Dryden æneid viii. 842 Sabine dames. 1756C. Smart tr. Horace, Sat. i. ix. (1826) II. 75 An old Sabine sorceress. 1784Cowper Let. 3 July (1904) II. 219, I may..refresh my spirits by a little intercourse with the Mantuan and the Sabine bard. 1822M. Wilmot Jrnl. 19 Apr. in More Lett. (1935) 165 We set out..to seek for Horace's Sabine Farm at the back of Mt Lucretiles. 1823Byron Juan ix. vii. 8 You, my Lord Duke!..half a million for your Sabine farm Is rather dear! 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 220 The..valley of the Hernici..separates the Sabine heights from the group of mountains anciently inhabited by the Volscians. 1908O. Crawford in 19th Cent. Jan. 69 Liquor that Horace drank and sang of on his Sabine farm.
b. Of or pertaining to the Sabine language.
1888[see Marrucinian n. and a.]. 1977Word 1972 XXVIII. 7 They are obviously Italic (Sabine), not really Latin words.
B. n.1
a. One of a race of ancient Italy who inhabited the central region of the Apennines.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 61 Tacius kyng of Sabyns was i-slawe by assent of Romulus. 1533Bellenden Livy i. iv. (S.T.S.) I. 29 Ane huge nowmer of Sabinis with þare wyiffis, barnis, & servandis. 1601Holland Pliny I. 65 The Sabines..dwell hard by the Veline lakes. 1783W. Gordon tr. Livy's Rom. Hist. (1823) I. xxxviii. 70 The Sabines fled to the Mountains. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 46 The Sabines, as it is..conjectured, had a settlement covering the Capitoline and Quirinal Hills.
b. transf. in allusion to the proverb Sabini quod volunt somniant, ‘the Sabines dream what they will’ (Festus).
1610Holland Camden's Brit. 542 Grimsby, which our Sabins, or conceited persons dreaming what they list, and following their owne fansies, will have to be so called of one Grime a merchant.
c. The Italic language of the Sabines.
1834W. Gell Topogr. Rome II. 381 Cata, in Sabine, says Varro, means pointed. 1933,1939[see Marsian n. and a.]. 1974[see Marrucinian n. and a.].
d. Sabine wine. rare.
1863G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators x. 153, I talked myself well-nigh hoarse, and stayed out the drinking of two flagons of sour Sabine to boot.
▪ II. Sabine, n.2|ˈsæbaɪn|
The name of Sir Edward Sabine (1788–1883), British explorer, soldier, and President of the Royal Society, used absol., attrib., or in the possessive in Sabine('s) gull to designate Xema sabinii, an Arctic gull with a forked tail, grey head, and black collar, first named Larus sabini in his honour by his brother Joseph Sabine in 1818 (Trans. Linn. Soc. XII. 522).
1852P. C. Sutherland Jrnl. Voy. Baffin's Bay II. 88 Sabine and ivory gulls, and other birds,..were on their flight up the Channel. 1886Code Nomencl. & Check-list N. Amer. Birds (Amer. Ornithologists' Union) 91 (heading) Sabine's Gull. 1958Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 6 May 30/5 Few people have the opportunity to see Sabine's gulls as they rarely come south. 1972S. Burnford One Woman's Arctic ii. 43 Once only I saw a solitary sabine. |