Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to the Inca, their civilization, or their language.
- n. An Inca.
- n. Quechua.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to the Incas of Peru. Also, rarely, Incarial.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to the Inca people and culture
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the Incas.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or pertaining to the Incas or their culture or empire
- n. a member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru
Examples
“The collapse of the Aztec and Incan kingdoms was expedited by the introduction of smallpox by Old World conquistadors.”
“After all, it was the priest wielding the knife that declared the moral standards for Incan culture, so obviously he going to make sure he's innocent in the eyes of Incan society.”
“Provan: So why is chunkdz prepared to excuse the murder of an Incan child simply because it was accepted religious practice at the time?”
“So why is chunkdz prepared to excuse the murder of an Incan child simply because it was accepted religious practice at the time?”
“In both the Incan Empire and the first few centuries of Islam it shows up neatly — the promise of women from conquered areas (as well as a shortage internally due to established males taking nth wives) encourages lower status men to fight.”
“It's filled with pineapples, bananas, apples, oranges and other gifts I plan to present to Inti, the Incan God of the Sun.”
“Machu Picchu was built by the Incan emperor Pachacuti at the height of the Inca empire around 1450.”
The Huffington Post: Meg Waite Clayton: Exploring Machu Picchu 100 Years After Hiram Bingham
“Growing up in Los Angeles, a multi-ethnic city which merges the history, religion and languages of many different cultures, Retna created his own take on the commonly used Old English script by interlarding it with Asian characters, Incan and Egyptian hieroglyphics.”
“The Incas considered it so sacred that the first seeds of the season were sown by the Incan emperor using a golden planting stick.”
The Huffington Post: Olivia Katrandjian: A Spoonful of Quinoa Risotto Makes the Medicine Go Down
“- A lost Incan tribe still surviving up in the Andes”
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