Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Belonging to Abyssinia, a country of eastern Africa, lying to the south of Nubia, or to its inhabitants.
- n. A native or an inhabitant of Abyssinia. Specifically
- n. A member of the Abyssinian Church. This church was organized about the middle of the fourth century by Frumentius, a missionary from Alexandria. In doctrine it is Monophysite (which see). It observes the Jewish Sabbath together with the Christian Sunday, forbids eating the flesh of unclean beasts, retains as an object of worship the model of a sacred ark called the ark of Zion, practises a form of circumcision, and celebrates a yearly feast of lustration, at which all the people are rebaptized. The Abyssinians honor saints and pictures, but not images; crosses, but not crucifixes. Pontius Pilate is accounted by them a saint because he washed his hands of innocent blood. The priests may be married men, but may not marry after ordination. The abuna, or head of the Abyssinian Church, is appointed by the patriarch of Alexandria.
Wiktionary
- n. A member of the Abyssinian Church.
- n. The Amharic language.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to Abyssinia.
- n. A native of Abyssinia.
- n. A member of the Abyssinian Church.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small slender short-haired breed of African origin having brownish fur with a reddish undercoat
Etymologies
- Abyssinia + -an (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Her virtues notwithstanding, the Abyssinian is usually of a spiteful, revengeful disposition, and when she flies into a temper goes beyond the limits not only of moderation but of decency.”
“Abyssinia; none, in preparing the coffee known as Abyssinian, which is the product of wild trees; and only in a few instances in cleaning the”
“Ethiopian cisticola, Cisticola lugubris (formerly, Cisticola galactotes lugubris; protonym, Sylvia (Cisticola) lugubris), also known as the Abyssinian black-backed cisticola, photographed at the Gerfasa Reservoir, Ethiopia (Africa).”
The Guardian: Mystery bird: Ethiopian cisticola, Cisticola lugubris
“Another species like it is called the Abyssinian hornbill.”
“The exuberant worship, the family atmosphere and the prophetic preaching at a church such as Abyssinian would have appealed to a young man who lived so in his head.”
“It is of inferior grade, and reaches the market as "Abyssinian" coffee.”
“Abyssinian" Bruce had no doubt that "large trees or plants of coral spread everywhere over the bottom," made the sea "red," and accounted for the name.”
“There was no way of foreseeing, as they brought me away from that place of slaughter where the Gallas died, that those seven days of horror and hope, of living on the razor’s edge, were to see the final act of the astonishing melodrama, part-tragedy, part-farce, known as the Abyssinian War.”
““Sir Robert wishes your presence to be known to as few people as poss ible, especially the enem — that is, our Abyssinian friends.”
“Leaders like the late Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor, the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, emphasized religious and secular education as keys to economic progress for blacks.”
The Wall Street Journal: Black Churches and the Prosperity Gospel
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Cat Breeds
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