Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to Phrygia or its people, language, or culture.
- n. A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.
- n. The Indo-European language of the Phrygians.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertain ing to Phrygia, an ancient province or country in the interior of Asia Minor, or to the Phry gians.
- n. A native or an inhabitant of Phrygia.
- n. In ecclesiastical history, same as Montanist.
- n. An ancient language spoken in Phrygia, of which no record remains except some isolated words and proper names preserved in Greek literature. Upon these evidences the language is now classed as one of the Indo-European family.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their culture.
- adj. In the Phrygian language.
- n. A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.
- n. The language of the Phrygian people.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to Phrygia, or to its inhabitants.
- n. A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.
- n. (Eccl. Hist.) A Montanist.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient inhabitants of Phrygia and now extinct--preserved only in a few inscriptions
- n. a native or inhabitant of Phrygia
Etymologies
- From Latin Phrygianus. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The octave species is the one called Phrygian by Cleonides, with a succession of whole and half steps equivalent to the octave from D to D on the white keys of the piano.”
“The tale should be classed with those of the satyrs who sang and danced in the train of Osiris; with the little boys whom they would not feed till after they had run eight leagues, to teach them to conquer the world; with the two children who cried bec in asking for bread and who by that means discovered that the Phrygian was the original language; with”
“But this passage is more honorable to the manufactures than to the navigation of Phoenicia, from whence they had been imported to Troy in Phrygian bottoms.] 58 See in Ovid (de Arte Amandi, iii. 269, &c.) a poetical list of twelve colors borrowed from flowers, the elements, &c.”
“His Dorian is what the ancients called Phrygian, [G: d 'd' '] dominant,”
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
“A; his Phrygian was the ancient Dorian, [G: e 'e' '] dominant,”
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
“The series upon mi was called Phrygian, upon fa Lydian; upon sol Mixo-Lydian.”
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
“To the town-folks Torrini perhaps vaguely suggested hand-organs and eleemosynary pennies; but Richard never looked at the straight-limbed, handsome fellow without recalling the Phrygian-capped sailors of the Mediterranean.”
“Quite the reverse, he replied; and if so the Dorian and the Phrygian are the only ones which you have left.”
“Quite the reverse, he replied; and if so, the Dorian and the Phrygian are the only ones which you have left.”
“The medallion bore the coat of arms of the French Republic topped with the "Phrygian" cap, being flanked on either side by two allegorical female figures, one of which was symbolic of the Armed Peace protecting herself with a sword, and the other was intended to represent”
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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