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Slavic, a. and n.|ˈslɑːvɪk, ˈslævɪk|
Also Sclavic, Slaavic.
[f. Slav n. + -ic.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Slavs; Slavonian; Slavonic.
α1813Q. Rev. Oct. 256 Classes and families of languages... Indoeuropean... Sclavic. Ibid. 281 The connexion of the Sclavonian, and Lithuanian, which we have comprehended in the title of Sclavic family. 1864Athenæum 2 Apr. 467/3 The ‘Sclavic Athens’ [as] she [Ragusa] was named in the seventeenth century.
β1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 184 The Slavic, or Sclavonic race, is a 4th Indo-European family. 1849Paton Highl. & Isl. Adriatic I. xii. 157 The most advanced of all the Slaavic nations of central Europe. 1866Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 389/2 The author of a Slavic Grammar. 1882W. B. Weeden Soc. Law Labor 11 The Slavic development differs from other Aryan experience.
B. n.
a. A Slavonic form of speech.
1812A. Murray Let. 8 Aug. in T. Constable A. Constable (1873) I. 333, I wish, however, to have about 100 or 150 printed pages additional on the Latin, Slavic, Persic, and Celtic. 1850[see Church Slavic s.v. church n. 18]. 1866Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 389/2 The lines of distinction..between old Slavic and Russian. 1876Whitney Language and its Study vi. 214 Old Slavonic, or the Church Slavic, having been adopted by a large part of the Slavonian races as their sacred language.
b. Comb., as Slavic-speaking adj.
1942Amer. Council of Learned Societies Bull. No. 34. 58 (heading) The Slavic-speaking groups of the United States and Canada. 1980Word 1979 XXX. 19 Albanians in Yugoslavia are classified as a nationality (narodnost) within a population consisting predominantly of Slavic-speaking peoples.
Hence ˈSlavicize v. trans., to render Slav-like, to convert into Slavs.
1887Pall Mall G. 22 Dec. 8/1 The Servian individuality cannot be Germanized, but it might be Slavicized. 1898Contemp. Rev. Feb. 172 Any attempt to Slavicise the Germans of Bohemia. |