Hyrcann.adj.
/ˈhəːkən/ = Hyrcanian n. and adj. Hyrcan tiger, after Latin Hyrcanæ tigres (Virgil Æn. iv. 367).
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [adjective]
westeeOE
wildc893
wastyc1230
wastec1290
untilled1297
void1398
wilsomea1400
desolate1413
wastablea1450
unlaboured1474
untilthed1495
spare1508
unmanured1541
unculted1548
uncultured1555
Hyrcan1567
untoiled1578
manureless1595
griggy1597
Wealdish1598
Hyrcanian1600
unwrought1600
wealy1601
uncultived1605
incult1624
unmanaged1634
incultivateda1657
uncultivate1659
uncultivated1684
unreclaimed1753
wildered1810
irreclaimed1814
natural1827
feral1882
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of ancient cities or states > [adjective]
NinevitishOE
Trojanc1374
Sardian1551
Susian?1552
Illyrian1556
Phoenician?1556
Hyrcan1567
Sidonian1578
Phrygian1579
Smyrnian1579
Lycaonian1582
Paphlagonian1596
Lycian1598
Galatian1603
Cappadocian1607
Canaanite1613
Mysian1613
Phocaean1614
Phrygic1614
Dardana1616
Babylonized1701
Pergamene1703
Milesiana1722
Canaanitic1753
Palmyrenian1776
Smyrnaean1807
Troic1838
Minaean1844
Ninevite1848
Smyrniote1867
Isaurian1880
Mitannian1897
Iconian1899
Mitannite1911
Thraco-Phrygian1924
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Near East, Middle East, and Asia Minor > [adjective] > Asia Minor > specific lands
Pontic?1556
Aeolian1567
Hyrcan1567
Median1577
Albanian1578
Parthian1581
Lycaonian1582
Lydian1584
Anatolian1590
Cilician1597
Lycian1598
Hyrcanian1600
Cappadocian1607
Mysian1613
Chaldaic1662
Pergamenian1680
Sogdian1700
Chaldean1732
Carian1818
Pontine1832
Anatolic1853
Medic1869
Sumerian1874
Mitannian1897
Mitannite1911
1567 W. Barker tr. Xenophon Discipline Cyrus iv. sig. O2v Cyrus beholding the feates of the Medes and Hyrcanes, did as it were, rebuke him selfe.
1584 B. Rich Don Simonides II. sig. Ci These Souldiers, like to Hircan Tigers, reuenge them selues on their owne bowelles.
1592 S. Daniel Delia xviii But yet restore thy fearce and cruell minde, To Hyrcan tygers, and to ruthles Beares.
1602 T. Lodge tr. Josephus Wks. 755 Conspiring with the king of the Hyrcans to passe into Media.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 100 The arm'd Rhinoceros, or th'Hircan Tiger. View more context for this quotation
1911 in W. James Mem. & Stud. xv. 395 I took the Hyrcan tiger by the scruff And tore him piecemeal.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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