Palestiniann.adj.

1583 2nd Pt. Mirrour Knighthood ii. 264 I am now constrayned to declare of the battaile that was begunne betweene the light of all knighthood and the furious Palestinian.

1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence ii. 1 In this not much inferior to the Palestinians, in their sacrifices to Moloch.

1854 J. Murdock tr. J. L. Mosheim Hist. Comm. State of Christianity II. 207 Demetrius envied the Palestinians the possession of so great and talented a man.

1854 G. R. Gliddon in J. C. Nott & G. R. Gliddon Types of Mankind ii. xiv. 526 The union of all three tribes into a cohort renders their homogeneity, as native Palestinians, more than probable.

1872 E. P. Barrows Sacred Geogr. & Antiq. i. 30 Josephus everywhere calls the Philistines Palestinians and their land Palestine, though he occasionally uses the word in a wider sense.

1905 Daily Chron. 31 July 5/3 Territorialists..flooded the hall with leaflets declaring that 200 Russian Palestinians were illegally present.

1920 Glasgow Herald 12 July 12 The higher ranks of the Civil Service..would consist mainly of British officials until an increasing number of Palestinians were fully qualified... Other ranks would be open to Palestinians, irrespective of creed.

1974 Times 30 Oct. 15/3 King Husain..is not himself a Palestinian and indeed has a vested interest in preventing the assertion of a distinct Palestinian identity.

2002 Church Times 12 Apr. 9/2 We are expected to accept that Israel can occupy and ‘ghettoise’ Palestine for 35 years, and then blame the Palestinians for fighting back in any way they can.

1724 A. Collins Disc. Grounds Christian Relig. ii. vii. 206 It is not improbable..that some modern Samaritan compil'd it chiefly out of the different copies of the Palestinian and Babylonian Jews.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall vi. ii St. John's sense of the Logos seems as far removed from the simple allegory ascribed to the Palestinian Jews as from the Oriental impersonation of the Alexandrian.

1838 W. G. Simms Pelayo I. xxiv. 114 Sorrow shall fill the Palestinian fields.

1848 Ladies' Repository May 142/1 It is neither Egyptian, nor Palestinian, nor even Arabian life.

1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 181/1 The books bearing this name are not contained in the Jewish or Palestinian Canon.

1934 Mind XLIII. 388 If..Dr Inge should chance upon a plain unsophisticated Christian, and try to scare him with his Thermodynamic Götterdämmerung, would he not be told that the Heavenly Jerusalem was incomparably preferable to the Palestinian, in which there were no abiding habitations?

1936 Discovery Aug. 250/1 Palestinian objects of the Bronze Age.

1977 Times 13 June 14/1 This promise, coupled with 30 years' occupation of the country by Britain, and compounded by a decision of the United Nations in 1947, has resulted in the Palestinian people (who now number three million) being either in refugee camps, in exile, or under alien military rule.

2001 Harper's Mag. Jan. 15/2 The Intifada is the most often remembered for its vivid images of Palestinian children throwing stones at Israeli soldiers.