单词 | leucadian |
释义 | Leucadiann.adj. A. n. A native or inhabitant of Leucadia or Leucas, an island in the Ionian Sea. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Greece > Greek islands Rhodianc1450 Naxianc1487 Candian1549 Melian1550 Parian1550 Sciote1553 Cretan1579 Samian1579 Leucadian1615 Sciana1641 Siphnian1709 Septinsular1807 Ionian1816 Corfiote1835 Naxiote1859 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey i. 4 It was a custome amongst the Leucadians in their yearely solemnities, as a propitiatory sacrifice to Apollo, to throw some one from the top, condemned before for his offences. 1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough II. iii. 213 From the Lover's Leap, a white bluff at the southern end of their island, the Leucadians used annually to hurl a criminal into the sea as a scapegoat. B. adj. Of or pertaining to Leucadia. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective] > Greek islands Ionic1483 Rhodiana1533 Candian1559 lesbian1559 Cretan1579 Ionian1579 Ortygian1582 Parianc1602 Lemnian1611 Carpathian1637 lesbic1659 Eubœan1660 Melian1684 Sciote1718 Minoan1830 Naxiote1859 Corfiote1877 Knossian1894 Siphnian1895 Cycladic1915 Leucadian1952 1952 R. Campbell tr. C. Baudelaire Poems 181 Since then I watch on the Leucadian height. 1968 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 998/2 It was from the extremity..of this cape that in ancient times the ‘Leucadian leap’ was made, an ordeal whereby at the feast of Apollo accused persons were tried, those who survived the leap being picked up by boat. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.adj.1615 |
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