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Cimbrian, a. and n.|ˈsɪmbrɪən|
[f. Cimbrī + -an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Cimbri, an ancient people of central Europe of unknown affinities.
B. n. One of the Cimbri. So Cimbric |ˈsɪmbrɪk|, a. = Cimbrian a.; n. the language of the Cimbri. Cimbric chersonese or Cimbric peninsula, Jutland.
1594T. Nashe Unfort. Trav. J 3v, I thought these Cymesses like the Cimbrians had bene some strange nation. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 158 Likewise the Cimbrian, Hircanian, and Magnesian Dogs. 1755Johnson Dict. sig. D 1r, Of these languages Dr. Hickes has thus exhibited the genealogy. Gothick: Anglo-Saxon, Francick, Cimbrick. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. III. xxxvi. 499 The broken trophies of Cimbric and Armenian victories. 1781J. Wesley Jrnl. 1 Sept. (1938) VI. 333 The former were called Gomerians, Cimmerians, Cimbrians, and afterwards Celtiae, Galatae, and Gauls. Ibid., The Gomerians spread swiftly through the north of Europe, as far as the Cimbrian Chersonesus (including Sweden, Denmark..and divers other countries). 1844Longfellow Arsenal at Springfield in Poems (1845) 85 Through Cimbric forest roars the Norseman's song. 1853Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 9) xx. 331 This event, commonly called the ‘Cimbrian Deluge’, is supposed to have happened about three centuries before the Christian era. 1862Chambers's Encycl. III. 35/1 The extremity of the peninsula called from them the Cimbric Chersonese, now Jütland. 1876Encycl. Brit. V. 780/1 Cimbri, or Cimbrians,..one of the most formidable enemies of the Roman power. 1879Ibid. X. 7/1 All the modern sections of the Cimbrian Celts. 1893H. Allen in Smithsonian Misc. Coll. XXXIV. 40 In a Cimbrian and a Peruvian the bone is placed well within the region of the ascending process of the maxilla. 1959Chambers's Encycl. III. 573/1 Cimbri, a Germanic people..who inhabited Jutland, which was known to the Romans as the Cimbric peninsula. Ibid. VIII. 163/2 Jutland..is sometimes called the Chersonesus, or the Cimbrian peninsula after the Cimbri. |