hyperborean

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It shows what sort of man he was, to say that for more than ten years he spent only part of one in England, and was the rest of the time in an antipodean hemisphere or a hyperborean zone.

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  1. Situated in or inhabiting the far north: as, the hyperborean regions; a hyperborean race; the hyperborean phalarope. From hyperborean skies, Embodied dark, what clouds of Vandals rise! Pope, Dunciad, iii. 85.
  2. Hence Very cold; frigid. The more chilly and pinching hyperborean atmosphere in which they have grown up and been formed. Craik, Hist. Eng. Lit., I. 6.
  3. [capitalized] Of or pertaining to the imaginary race of Hyperboreans.
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  1. = French hyperboréen, from Late Latin Hyperboreanus, from Latin hyperboreus, adjective (later Italian iperboreo = Portuguese hyperboreo = Spanish hiperbóreo = French hyperborée), Hyperborei, n. plural, from Greek ὑπερβόρεος, υ(περβόρειοσ, σ2, adjective, beyond the north wind, γπερβόρεοι, n. plural, the Hyperboreans, an imaginary people in the extreme north, from ὑπέρ, over, beyond, + βορέας, the north wind (perhaps orig. the ‘mountain’ wind, Υπερβόρεοι, the people ‘beyond the (Rhipæan) mountains’): see hyper-, Boreas, and oread.
 

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