| 单词 | precious john |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPrecious John ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > king > [noun] > alleged oriental or Ethiopian king Prester Johna1400 Pope Johna1450 Presbyter John1582 Precious John1634 1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. aiij Preciosus Iohannes, otherwyse cauled Presbyter Iohannes, Emperour of many Chrystian nations in Ethiope.] 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 130 The great Christian of Æthiopia, vulgarly cald Prester, Precious, or Priest-Iohn. 1705 Introd. Hist. Kingdoms & States Asia ii. vi. 500 His Ambassador being sent into Portugal, called him Precious John, instead of Preter Gianni. 1870 Jrnl. Ethnol. Soc. 2 103 Tzaga Zabus converts Presbyter Johannes into Pretiosus Johannes (Precious John, or John possessing precious things)—a name still to be found on old maps of Abyssinia. < as lemmas |
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