Definitions

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  • noun An inhabitant or a resident of Magnesia.
  • adjective Of or relating to Magnesia.

Etymologies

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Magnesia +‎ -an

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Examples

  • Now when all things had been made ready by the thralls, all things that fully-equipped ships are furnished withal when men's business leads them to voyage across the sea, then the heroes took their way through the city to the ship where it lay on the strand that men call Magnesian

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • Now when all things had been made ready by the thralls, all things that fully-equipped ships are furnished withal when men’s business leads them to voyage across the sea, then the heroes took their way through the city to the ship where it lay on the strand that men call Magnesian

    The Argonautica 2008

  • Magnesian limestone is a higher quality building stone than oolitic limestone because it can be cut in any direction and to any size and shape, and is the limestone used to make the facing blocks for the surviving stretches of Roman fortress wall.

    Archive 2010-09-01 Carla 2010

  • Magnesian limestone is a higher quality building stone than oolitic limestone because it can be cut in any direction and to any size and shape, and is the limestone used to make the facing blocks for the surviving stretches of Roman fortress wall.

    The Anglian Tower, York Carla 2010

  • Magnesian limestone is a higher quality building stone than oolitic limestone because it can be cut in any direction and to any size and shape, and is the limestone used to make the facing blocks for the surviving stretches of Roman fortress wall.

    Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010

  • Magnesian limestone is a higher quality building stone than oolitic limestone because it can be cut in any direction and to any size and shape, and is the limestone used to make the facing blocks for the surviving stretches of Roman fortress wall.

    Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010

  • Magnesian limestone is a higher quality building stone than oolitic limestone because it can be cut in any direction and to any size and shape, and is the limestone used to make the facing blocks for the surviving stretches of Roman fortress wall.

    Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010

  •     Left to the bare-limb'd maids Magnesian, airily ranging.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  •     Left to the bare-limb'd maids Magnesian, airily ranging.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • It was Kentauros's mating with the Magnesian mares that produced the race of hippocentaurs, the half-horse, half-humans known today simply as centaurs.

    The Origins of Centaurs Gregory Feeley 2005

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