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▪ I. Servian, a.1 and n.|ˈsɜːvɪən|
[f. Servia (properly Serbia: see Serbian a. and n.) + -an.]
A. adj. = Serbian a.
1808C. Stower Printer's Gram., Index, Servian alphabet. 1827Bowring Servian Pop. Poetry Introd. 38 ‘Fair as the mountain Vila,’ is the highest compliment to a Servian lady. 1879Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. iii. 273 Had the Servian Czar entered Constantinople in the fourteenth century.
B. n.
a. = Serbian n. a.
1788Gibbon Decl. & F. lv. V. 543 The language of the Dalmatians, Bosnians, Servians [etc.]. 1835Penny Cycl. III. 328/1 A stronghold to the Servians in their wars with the Turks. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 402 Christian volunteers from Russia helping the belligerent Servian.
b. = Serbian n. b.
1808C. Stower Printer's Gram. 287 (heading above the alphabet) Servian. 1842Penny Cycl. XXII. 127/2 The Servian was employed as a written language for the first time by Dositheus Obradovich. 1885[see Croatian n. and a.]. 1900H. H. Chadwick in Indogerman. Forsch. XI. 168 The -ā- was probably accented, as in Servian.
▪ II. Servian, a.2 Rom. Hist.|ˈsɜːvɪən|
[a. L. Serviānus, f. Servius: see -an.]
Of or pertaining to Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome, who is said to have organized the plebs into thirty local ‘tribes’, and to have encircled the city with a wall, of which extensive remains still exist.
1839Dublin Rev. Aug. 87 This method of election was a manifest reaction and encroachment upon the Servian constitution. 1843Penny Cycl. XXV. 201 The probability is in favour of five tribunes, so that one was taken from each of the five Servian classes. 1855Liddell Hist. Rome I. i. iii. 56 A person who once belonged either to a Romulian Tribe of birth or a Servian Tribe of place, always remained a member of that Tribe. 1886Pelham in Encycl. Brit. XX. 734/2 Only Etruscan builders..could have built..the Servian wall. |