Abyssiniann.adj.

Brit.

/ˌabᵻˈsɪnɪən/, U.S.

/ˌæbəˈsɪniən/

Forms: 1600s Abassinian, 1600s– Abyssinian, 1700s Habyssinian, 1800s Abessinian, 1800s Abissinian.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Abyssinia , -an suffix.

Etymology: < Abyssinia, the former European name of the country in north-eastern Africa now called Ethiopia + -an suffix. Compare earlier Abyssin n., Abyssin adj., Abassian n., Abassian adj. Compare also earlier Ethiopian n. and Ethiopian adj.The place name Abyssinia (also †Abissinia , †Abessinia , †Abassinia ) is attested in English contexts from the second half of the 17th cent. Compare the following early examples:1662 P. Duval Geogr. Dict. 2 Abissinia or Abassinia, the greatest Kingdom in all Africa.1682 J. P. tr. H. Ludolf New Hist. Ethiopia 5 All Abessinia Obeys one King, who by reason of certain Princes hat are subject to him, calls himself..King of the Kings of Ethiopia. The name was formed in post-classical Latin, originally as Abyssina , Abassina (1577 or earlier; apparently use as noun of feminine singular of Abyssinus of or relating to Ethiopia (only attested as noun in plural in sense ‘inhabitants of Ethiopia’: see Abyssin n.), and then altered to Abissinia (1620 or earlier), Abyssinia (1625 or earlier). Compare French Abyssinie (1677 or earlier), Dutch Abessinië (1687 or earlier as Abissinien ), German Abessinien (1687 or earlier as Abyssinien ). The Ethiopian Empire was founded in 1270, when its ruling dynasty was formed from an Ethiopic people now usually referred to as Habesha in English (compare Geez ḥabaśā , Amharic hābešā ; > Arabic ḥabaš (collective noun), ḥabaša (singular noun): see Hubshee n.). The Empire ended in 1974, and the place name Abyssinia , which was never official, is now only used historically. Early modern names for the country in European languages are derived more directly from the name of the Habesha; compare e.g. Abassia , Habassia (compare quot. 1555), Hhabassia (1614 in a Latin context with reference to the 16th cent. source translated in quot. 1625):1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 356^v The kingdome of Habech or Habassia, a region of Chrysten men, lying both on this syde and beyonde Nilus.1625 tr. Benjamin of Tudela Itinerarium in S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. v. v. 1460 The Aegyptians suppose, that at the same time when this Riuer ouer-floweth, it vehemently raineth in the higher Countries, that is, in the Land of Hhabas [L. in terra Hhabas; (marg. note) Hhabas, from whence the people are called Hhabassini, whom the Grecians, amisse, call Abissini]. The name Abassia is also used by early modern authors to denote the region of Abazinia on the Caucasus (compare Abaza n.), apparently following the 13th-cent. report of Marco Polo. This led to confusion between the peoples and may have contributed to the transfer of the legend of Prester John from Asia to Ethiopia (compare Prester John n.). The origin of sense A. 4 and Abyssinian cat n. at Compounds is unknown. The first cat known to have been described as Abyssinian was apparently brought back from India by an army officer and exhibited at a cat show in London in 1872 (compare quot. 1871 for Abyssinian cat n. at Compounds).

Now historical.

A. n.

1. Any of the languages spoken by the inhabitants of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia). Now usually spec.= Amharic n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Semitic > Ethiopic

Ethiopian1595

Ethiopic1626

Abyssinian1660

Amharic1682

Geʽez1790

Amharinya1849

Amharan1935

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 292 Constantinople, where there are above twenty Churches, where they celebrate divine service, both in Greek, Latine, and Abissinian [Fr. Abissin].

1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile II. 104 The language of the Negroes had, of old, been a dialect of Abyssinian.

1855 Morning Post 6 Apr. 6/6 It is true, I can't speak Abyssinian.

1881 W. Winstanley Visit to Abyssinia II. xv. 269 Had you learnt Abyssinian, it might have been otherwise; but now we must talk with the tongues of others.

1936 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 19 Mar. 20/2 Both Mr and Mrs Grundset, Scandinavians by birth, speak Abyssinian fluently.

1965 Winona (Minnesota) Sunday News 19 Dec. (Mag.) 11/2 Somehow, you get the feeling that even if she sang in Abyssinian, you'd get the point.

2001 Daily Mail (Nexis) 14 June 69 [He] realised that getting the ‘Princes’ to speak Abyssinian would be impossible, so he told them to make up their language as they went along.

2. A member of the Abyssinian (now the Ethiopian) Orthodox Church.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > Christianity > Greek Orthodoxy > [noun] > person > Ethiopian

Ethiopian1567

Abyssina1576

Abassian1659

Abyssinian1693

1693 J. A. Barnard Bohun's Geogr. Dict. (new ed.) 98/1 The Abyssinians are in part submitted to this Church [sc. the Coptic Church].

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. The Abyssinians are a branch of the Copts, or Jacobites; with whom they agree in admitting only one nature in Jesus Christ, and rejecting the council of Chalcedon.

1826 Methodist Rev. Feb. 64 An extract from the public confession of the Abyssinians..may serve to show..a church which has not been corrupted by modern refinements in theology.

1869 Methodist Q. Rev. Oct. 610 The Abyssinians are the only Christian sect in which not only the bread but also the wine for the Lord's Supper is prepared within the walls of the church.

1913 Man 13 164 The original building was already a mere ruin on the débris of which the Abyssinians had built a church of their own.

1987 W. Thesiger Life of my Choice iii. 37 The Abyssinians, as Monophysites, owed allegiance to the Patriarch of Alexandria.

2004 E. C. Dodd Medieval Painting in Lebanon i. 13/2 The rest of the Levant being filled with..Nestorians, Jacobites, Dioscarians, Eutychians, Copts, Abyssinians, Greeks, Georgians, and Melkites.

3. A native or inhabitant of Abyssinia.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of Ethiopia > [noun]

Abassian1613

Hubsheea1627

Abyssinian1703

Hindi1735

1703 tr. Present State Europe 461 The Pope has thought fit to publish the Letter he has receiv'd from the Emperor of the Abyssinians.

1793 ‘K. Moris’ Rights of Devil 16 There are [in Hell] English, Scotch, Welch,..Arminians and Abyssinians,..in a word all the nations and people.

1845 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man (ed. 2) xi. 103 Hairs of a Negro..and of some Abyssinians..were..viewed both as transparent and opaque bodies.

1862 H. A. Stern Wanderings among Falashas in Abyssinia xxi. 311 The costume of the Abyssinian is exceedingly simple.

1936 Discovery June 170/1 The Abyssinians—essentially Hamitic in origin—are nowadays much mixed with Semites and Negroes.

1955 I. M. Lewis Peoples of Horn of Afr. 155 The name..is currently used by the Abyssinians, Arabs, and Arabized Afar.

2003 Rev. Afr. Polit. Econ. 30 363 The Abyssinians trace their ancestry to a tribe that crossed the Red Sea from Arabia.

4. An Abyssinian cat.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > miscellaneous breeds of

blue cat1771

chartreuse1838

Maltese1857

Maltese cat1857

Abyssinian1871

Abyssinian cat1871

Russian Blue1872

Malay cat1881

chinchilla1889

longhair1889

Russian longhair1889

Maine cat1900

short-hair1903

British Shorthair1923

British Blue1929

Burmese cat1939

rex1958

rag doll1970

Maine Coon1971

1871 Bazaar 6 Dec. 636/3 An Abyssinian, respecting which we are informed that its name is Zeyla.

1893 J. Jennings Domest. or Fancy Cats ii. 16 In size, the Abyssinian resembles the self-coloured English cat.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. III. 168/2 Abyssinians..are speckled black and grey, differing from tabbies in having no pattern on the body.

2010 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Mar. (Mag.) 9 Abyssinians–abys–have a definite regal look and some people think that they were the worshipped cats of ancient Egypt.

B. adj.

1. Of or relating to the Abyssinian (now the Ethiopian) Orthodox Church.

ΚΠ

1687 Revolter 4 I call her Mother now, and so I could the Abassinian Patriarch too.

1713 A. Collins Disc. Free-thinking ii. 55 Ludolphus tells us, That the Abyssinian Christians receive the Apostolick Constitutions.

1784 J. Carroll Addr. Rom. Catholics Amer. 81 The doctrine now held by the catholic church was..the doctrine of..the Greek, the Armenian, the Cophtick, the Abyssinian.

1856 United Presbyterian Mag. May 150 Opposition on the part of the Abyssinian priesthood, fomented by certain members of the Church of Rome..compelled the missionaries to quit Abyssinia.

1876 R. Henry Hist. Origin War with Russia 6 Three [Holy Places] are common to all the Christian sects,—Greek, Latin, Armenian, Copt, Abyssinian, &c.

1922 H. W. Blundell Royal Chron. Abyssinia App. 519 This king immediately restored the Abyssinian doctrines, and hunted out the Jesuit missionaries.

1945 G. Dix Shape of Liturgy xiv. 530 The Abyssinian rite has fourteen different eucharistic prayers for use on different liturgical days.

2005 G. J. Ames Vasco da Gama ii. 24 This documentation included reports brought to Lisbon by an Abyssinian priest..in 1490.

2. Of or relating to Abyssinia, its inhabitants, or their language. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of Ethiopia > [adjective]

Abassian1601

Abyssinian1697

Hubshee1698

1697 R. St. Clair tr. B. Ramazzini (title) The Abyssinian philosophy confuted.

1730 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons 94 In the spicy Abyssinian vales, The citron, orange, and pomegranate, drink Intolerable day.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxiii. 351 Their names are honourably inscribed in the Roman, the Habyssinian, and the Russian calendar.

a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) vi. 212 Como,..a darling bosom'd up In Abyssinian privacy.

1816 S. T. Coleridge Kubla Khan in Christabel 57 It was an Abyssinian maid And on her dulcimer she play'd.

1860 J. L. Krapf Trav. E. Afr. iii. ii. 435 An Arabian captain..agreed for a small sum to take us to Massowa, the chief port of the Abessinian coast.

1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) xx. 349 Brought by the Abyssinian traders to be sold for the Turkish harems.

1928 E. Sitwell Five Poems 16 Rich trees And Abyssinian glooms have fostered these.

1972 A. J. P. Taylor Let. 7 Feb. in Lett. to Eva (1991) 61 He talked about the Abyssinian crisis, quite interesting though he is by no means a good speaker.

2008 S. Finlay What Would Churchill Do? I. x. 76 At the outset of WWII, the British gave arms and military support to the Abyssinian people to help them break free from the Italian fascists.

Compounds

Abyssinian banana n. the ensete, Ensete ventricosum, a relative of the banana native to north-east Africa where it is cultivated as a food crop for its starchy stem and root.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > banana > types of

apple of paradise1572

plantain1582

Adam's apple1588

plantain1756

ensete1790

fei1829

Abyssinian banana1859

honey banana1877

scarlet banana1885

Canary banana1889

lady's finger banana1893

Gros Michel1913

honey1938

1859 Mag. Hort., Bot., & Rural Affairs 25 375 Among the last is the most extraordinary plant in all our collections, the gigantic Abyssinian Banana (musa ensete), described and figured by no author save the celebrated Bruce.

1913 W. Fawcett Banana xxviii. 204 The Abyssinian banana (Musa Ensete) is a native of damp valleys in Abyssinia.

1989 Atlantic Sept. 28/1 Seven to eight million Ethiopians eat the starchy center of the stem of the ensete, or Abyssinian banana.

2005 C. Holliday Sharp Gardening 46 The foliage of cannas and hedychiums looks at home near the paddle-shaped leaves of the Abyssinian banana, Ensete ventricosum.

Abyssinian cat n. one of the short-haired breeds of domestic cat, having a distinctive ticked (agouti) coat and a lithe, slender body with large tufted ears; a cat of this breed.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > miscellaneous breeds of

blue cat1771

chartreuse1838

Maltese1857

Maltese cat1857

Abyssinian1871

Abyssinian cat1871

Russian Blue1872

Malay cat1881

chinchilla1889

longhair1889

Russian longhair1889

Maine cat1900

short-hair1903

British Shorthair1923

British Blue1929

Burmese cat1939

rex1958

rag doll1970

Maine Coon1971

1871 Times 4 Dec. 12/2 Among the rarities of the show are a fawn-coloured Siamese cat..and ‘Zeyla’, an Abyssinian cat taken prisoner of war by an officer of the 102d Fusiliers.

1892 H. Poland Fur-bearing Animals 42 The Abyssinian Cat is another well-formed cat..but rather of a deeper rusty greyish-brown.

1921 W. L. George Ursula Trent ii. 81 In the hall I tickle the nose of the Abyssinian cat. He has immense, voluptuous eyes of liquid amber, in which float two narrow black lunes.

1988 D. Ing Chernobyl Syndrome 51 A Chihuahua to chase your Abyssinian cat.

2010 Your Cat Feb. 15/2 We took on Ramses, our first Abyssinian cat, and 18 months after that our girl Isis.

Abyssinian gold n. now historical a substitute for gold, of varying composition but typically consisting of an alloy of copper, zinc, and aluminium plated with gold; = talmi n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > other copper alloys

tombac1602

blanched copper1621

orichalcum1646

cock metal1766

gold bronze1785

bidri1794

tumbaga1860

Aich's metal1861

sterro-metal1865

talmi1868

Abyssinian gold1869

delta-metal1883

Tobin bronze1891

manganin1894

Eureka1914

1869 Young Englishwoman Feb. 51/1 Of the many imitations of gold that have been introduced during the last few years, we have seen nothing so successful as the Abyssinian gold, manufactured by Messrs L. & A. Pyke.

1890 A. H. Hiorns Mixed Metals 109 §31 Talmi or Talmi Gold.—Also termed Abyssinian gold.

1933 E. A. Smith Working Prec. Met. xx. 381 Copper Zinc Alloys..Abyssinian Gold.

2009 P. Craddock Sci. Investig. Copies, Fakes & Forgeries xv. 371/1 The picturesquely named Abyssinian gold of the latter nineteenth century..is an alloy of copper and aluminium.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	abyssinian
释义	Abyssiniann.adj. Brit. /ˌabᵻˈsɪnɪən/, U.S. /ˌæbəˈsɪniən/ Forms: 1600s Abassinian, 1600s– Abyssinian, 1700s Habyssinian, 1800s Abessinian, 1800s Abissinian. Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Abyssinia , -an suffix. Etymology: < Abyssinia, the former European name of the country in north-eastern Africa now called Ethiopia + -an suffix. Compare earlier Abyssin n., Abyssin adj., Abassian n., Abassian adj. Compare also earlier Ethiopian n. and Ethiopian adj.The place name Abyssinia (also †Abissinia , †Abessinia , †Abassinia ) is attested in English contexts from the second half of the 17th cent. Compare the following early examples:1662 P. Duval Geogr. Dict. 2 Abissinia or Abassinia, the greatest Kingdom in all Africa.1682 J. P. tr. H. Ludolf New Hist. Ethiopia 5 All Abessinia Obeys one King, who by reason of certain Princes hat are subject to him, calls himself..King of the Kings of Ethiopia. The name was formed in post-classical Latin, originally as Abyssina , Abassina (1577 or earlier; apparently use as noun of feminine singular of Abyssinus of or relating to Ethiopia (only attested as noun in plural in sense ‘inhabitants of Ethiopia’: see Abyssin n.), and then altered to Abissinia (1620 or earlier), Abyssinia (1625 or earlier). Compare French Abyssinie (1677 or earlier), Dutch Abessinië (1687 or earlier as Abissinien ), German Abessinien (1687 or earlier as Abyssinien ). The Ethiopian Empire was founded in 1270, when its ruling dynasty was formed from an Ethiopic people now usually referred to as Habesha in English (compare Geez ḥabaśā , Amharic hābešā ; > Arabic ḥabaš (collective noun), ḥabaša (singular noun): see Hubshee n.). The Empire ended in 1974, and the place name Abyssinia , which was never official, is now only used historically. Early modern names for the country in European languages are derived more directly from the name of the Habesha; compare e.g. Abassia , Habassia (compare quot. 1555), Hhabassia (1614 in a Latin context with reference to the 16th cent. source translated in quot. 1625):1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 356^v The kingdome of Habech or Habassia, a region of Chrysten men, lying both on this syde and beyonde Nilus.1625 tr. Benjamin of Tudela Itinerarium in S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. v. v. 1460 The Aegyptians suppose, that at the same time when this Riuer ouer-floweth, it vehemently raineth in the higher Countries, that is, in the Land of Hhabas [L. in terra Hhabas; (marg. note) Hhabas, from whence the people are called Hhabassini, whom the Grecians, amisse, call Abissini]. The name Abassia is also used by early modern authors to denote the region of Abazinia on the Caucasus (compare Abaza n.), apparently following the 13th-cent. report of Marco Polo. This led to confusion between the peoples and may have contributed to the transfer of the legend of Prester John from Asia to Ethiopia (compare Prester John n.). The origin of sense A. 4 and Abyssinian cat n. at Compounds is unknown. The first cat known to have been described as Abyssinian was apparently brought back from India by an army officer and exhibited at a cat show in London in 1872 (compare quot. 1871 for Abyssinian cat n. at Compounds). Now historical. A. n. 1. Any of the languages spoken by the inhabitants of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia). Now usually spec.= Amharic n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Semitic > Ethiopic Ethiopian1595 Ethiopic1626 Abyssinian1660 Amharic1682 Geʽez1790 Amharinya1849 Amharan1935 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 292 Constantinople, where there are above twenty Churches, where they celebrate divine service, both in Greek, Latine, and Abissinian [Fr. Abissin]. 1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile II. 104 The language of the Negroes had, of old, been a dialect of Abyssinian. 1855 Morning Post 6 Apr. 6/6 It is true, I can't speak Abyssinian. 1881 W. Winstanley Visit to Abyssinia II. xv. 269 Had you learnt Abyssinian, it might have been otherwise; but now we must talk with the tongues of others. 1936 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 19 Mar. 20/2 Both Mr and Mrs Grundset, Scandinavians by birth, speak Abyssinian fluently. 1965 Winona (Minnesota) Sunday News 19 Dec. (Mag.) 11/2 Somehow, you get the feeling that even if she sang in Abyssinian, you'd get the point. 2001 Daily Mail (Nexis) 14 June 69 [He] realised that getting the ‘Princes’ to speak Abyssinian would be impossible, so he told them to make up their language as they went along. 2. A member of the Abyssinian (now the Ethiopian) Orthodox Church. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Greek Orthodoxy > [noun] > person > Ethiopian Ethiopian1567 Abyssina1576 Abassian1659 Abyssinian1693 1693 J. A. Barnard Bohun's Geogr. Dict. (new ed.) 98/1 The Abyssinians are in part submitted to this Church [sc. the Coptic Church]. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. The Abyssinians are a branch of the Copts, or Jacobites; with whom they agree in admitting only one nature in Jesus Christ, and rejecting the council of Chalcedon. 1826 Methodist Rev. Feb. 64 An extract from the public confession of the Abyssinians..may serve to show..a church which has not been corrupted by modern refinements in theology. 1869 Methodist Q. Rev. Oct. 610 The Abyssinians are the only Christian sect in which not only the bread but also the wine for the Lord's Supper is prepared within the walls of the church. 1913 Man 13 164 The original building was already a mere ruin on the débris of which the Abyssinians had built a church of their own. 1987 W. Thesiger Life of my Choice iii. 37 The Abyssinians, as Monophysites, owed allegiance to the Patriarch of Alexandria. 2004 E. C. Dodd Medieval Painting in Lebanon i. 13/2 The rest of the Levant being filled with..Nestorians, Jacobites, Dioscarians, Eutychians, Copts, Abyssinians, Greeks, Georgians, and Melkites. 3. A native or inhabitant of Abyssinia. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of Ethiopia > [noun] Abassian1613 Hubsheea1627 Abyssinian1703 Hindi1735 1703 tr. Present State Europe 461 The Pope has thought fit to publish the Letter he has receiv'd from the Emperor of the Abyssinians. 1793 ‘K. Moris’ Rights of Devil 16 There are [in Hell] English, Scotch, Welch,..Arminians and Abyssinians,..in a word all the nations and people. 1845 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man (ed. 2) xi. 103 Hairs of a Negro..and of some Abyssinians..were..viewed both as transparent and opaque bodies. 1862 H. A. Stern Wanderings among Falashas in Abyssinia xxi. 311 The costume of the Abyssinian is exceedingly simple. 1936 Discovery June 170/1 The Abyssinians—essentially Hamitic in origin—are nowadays much mixed with Semites and Negroes. 1955 I. M. Lewis Peoples of Horn of Afr. 155 The name..is currently used by the Abyssinians, Arabs, and Arabized Afar. 2003 Rev. Afr. Polit. Econ. 30 363 The Abyssinians trace their ancestry to a tribe that crossed the Red Sea from Arabia. 4. An Abyssinian cat. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > miscellaneous breeds of blue cat1771 chartreuse1838 Maltese1857 Maltese cat1857 Abyssinian1871 Abyssinian cat1871 Russian Blue1872 Malay cat1881 chinchilla1889 longhair1889 Russian longhair1889 Maine cat1900 short-hair1903 British Shorthair1923 British Blue1929 Burmese cat1939 rex1958 rag doll1970 Maine Coon1971 1871 Bazaar 6 Dec. 636/3 An Abyssinian, respecting which we are informed that its name is Zeyla. 1893 J. Jennings Domest. or Fancy Cats ii. 16 In size, the Abyssinian resembles the self-coloured English cat. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. III. 168/2 Abyssinians..are speckled black and grey, differing from tabbies in having no pattern on the body. 2010 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Mar. (Mag.) 9 Abyssinians–abys–have a definite regal look and some people think that they were the worshipped cats of ancient Egypt. B. adj. 1. Of or relating to the Abyssinian (now the Ethiopian) Orthodox Church. ΚΠ 1687 Revolter 4 I call her Mother now, and so I could the Abassinian Patriarch too. 1713 A. Collins Disc. Free-thinking ii. 55 Ludolphus tells us, That the Abyssinian Christians receive the Apostolick Constitutions. 1784 J. Carroll Addr. Rom. Catholics Amer. 81 The doctrine now held by the catholic church was..the doctrine of..the Greek, the Armenian, the Cophtick, the Abyssinian. 1856 United Presbyterian Mag. May 150 Opposition on the part of the Abyssinian priesthood, fomented by certain members of the Church of Rome..compelled the missionaries to quit Abyssinia. 1876 R. Henry Hist. Origin War with Russia 6 Three [Holy Places] are common to all the Christian sects,—Greek, Latin, Armenian, Copt, Abyssinian, &c. 1922 H. W. Blundell Royal Chron. Abyssinia App. 519 This king immediately restored the Abyssinian doctrines, and hunted out the Jesuit missionaries. 1945 G. Dix Shape of Liturgy xiv. 530 The Abyssinian rite has fourteen different eucharistic prayers for use on different liturgical days. 2005 G. J. Ames Vasco da Gama ii. 24 This documentation included reports brought to Lisbon by an Abyssinian priest..in 1490. 2. Of or relating to Abyssinia, its inhabitants, or their language. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of Ethiopia > [adjective] Abassian1601 Abyssinian1697 Hubshee1698 1697 R. St. Clair tr. B. Ramazzini (title) The Abyssinian philosophy confuted. 1730 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons 94 In the spicy Abyssinian vales, The citron, orange, and pomegranate, drink Intolerable day. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxiii. 351 Their names are honourably inscribed in the Roman, the Habyssinian, and the Russian calendar. a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) vi. 212 Como,..a darling bosom'd up In Abyssinian privacy. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Kubla Khan in Christabel 57 It was an Abyssinian maid And on her dulcimer she play'd. 1860 J. L. Krapf Trav. E. Afr. iii. ii. 435 An Arabian captain..agreed for a small sum to take us to Massowa, the chief port of the Abessinian coast. 1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) xx. 349 Brought by the Abyssinian traders to be sold for the Turkish harems. 1928 E. Sitwell Five Poems 16 Rich trees And Abyssinian glooms have fostered these. 1972 A. J. P. Taylor Let. 7 Feb. in Lett. to Eva (1991) 61 He talked about the Abyssinian crisis, quite interesting though he is by no means a good speaker. 2008 S. Finlay What Would Churchill Do? I. x. 76 At the outset of WWII, the British gave arms and military support to the Abyssinian people to help them break free from the Italian fascists. Compounds Abyssinian banana n. the ensete, Ensete ventricosum, a relative of the banana native to north-east Africa where it is cultivated as a food crop for its starchy stem and root. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > banana > types of apple of paradise1572 plantain1582 Adam's apple1588 plantain1756 ensete1790 fei1829 Abyssinian banana1859 honey banana1877 scarlet banana1885 Canary banana1889 lady's finger banana1893 Gros Michel1913 honey1938 1859 Mag. Hort., Bot., & Rural Affairs 25 375 Among the last is the most extraordinary plant in all our collections, the gigantic Abyssinian Banana (musa ensete), described and figured by no author save the celebrated Bruce. 1913 W. Fawcett Banana xxviii. 204 The Abyssinian banana (Musa Ensete) is a native of damp valleys in Abyssinia. 1989 Atlantic Sept. 28/1 Seven to eight million Ethiopians eat the starchy center of the stem of the ensete, or Abyssinian banana. 2005 C. Holliday Sharp Gardening 46 The foliage of cannas and hedychiums looks at home near the paddle-shaped leaves of the Abyssinian banana, Ensete ventricosum. Abyssinian cat n. one of the short-haired breeds of domestic cat, having a distinctive ticked (agouti) coat and a lithe, slender body with large tufted ears; a cat of this breed. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > miscellaneous breeds of blue cat1771 chartreuse1838 Maltese1857 Maltese cat1857 Abyssinian1871 Abyssinian cat1871 Russian Blue1872 Malay cat1881 chinchilla1889 longhair1889 Russian longhair1889 Maine cat1900 short-hair1903 British Shorthair1923 British Blue1929 Burmese cat1939 rex1958 rag doll1970 Maine Coon1971 1871 Times 4 Dec. 12/2 Among the rarities of the show are a fawn-coloured Siamese cat..and ‘Zeyla’, an Abyssinian cat taken prisoner of war by an officer of the 102d Fusiliers. 1892 H. Poland Fur-bearing Animals 42 The Abyssinian Cat is another well-formed cat..but rather of a deeper rusty greyish-brown. 1921 W. L. George Ursula Trent ii. 81 In the hall I tickle the nose of the Abyssinian cat. He has immense, voluptuous eyes of liquid amber, in which float two narrow black lunes. 1988 D. Ing Chernobyl Syndrome 51 A Chihuahua to chase your Abyssinian cat. 2010 Your Cat Feb. 15/2 We took on Ramses, our first Abyssinian cat, and 18 months after that our girl Isis. Abyssinian gold n. now historical a substitute for gold, of varying composition but typically consisting of an alloy of copper, zinc, and aluminium plated with gold; = talmi n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > other copper alloys tombac1602 blanched copper1621 orichalcum1646 cock metal1766 gold bronze1785 bidri1794 tumbaga1860 Aich's metal1861 sterro-metal1865 talmi1868 Abyssinian gold1869 delta-metal1883 Tobin bronze1891 manganin1894 Eureka1914 1869 Young Englishwoman Feb. 51/1 Of the many imitations of gold that have been introduced during the last few years, we have seen nothing so successful as the Abyssinian gold, manufactured by Messrs L. & A. Pyke. 1890 A. H. Hiorns Mixed Metals 109 §31 Talmi or Talmi Gold.—Also termed Abyssinian gold. 1933 E. A. Smith Working Prec. Met. xx. 381 Copper Zinc Alloys..Abyssinian Gold. 2009 P. Craddock Sci. Investig. Copies, Fakes & Forgeries xv. 371/1 The picturesquely named Abyssinian gold of the latter nineteenth century..is an alloy of copper and aluminium. 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