Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Belgium or the Belgians.
- adjective Of or relating to the Belgae.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the Belgæ, who in Cæsar's time possessed the country bounded by the Rhine, the Seine, the North Sea, the Strait of Dover, and the English Channel.
- Pertaining to Belgium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the
Belgæ , a German tribe who anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean. - adjective Of or pertaining to the Netherlands or to Belgium.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the Belgae, a
German tribe who anciently possessed the country between theRhine , theSeine , and the ocean. - adjective obsolete Of or pertaining to the
Netherlands or toBelgium .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some have even thought that "Belgic" tribes, whether in Gaul or Britain, spoke Teutonic dialects; but it is safer to believe from the combined evidence of place names and of later traditions, that there was a real change in the common talk of most men within a march of the eastern sea or the estuaries of its rivers.
Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" Hilaire Belloc 1911
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"This means that every theological student will be shaping their faith in light of not only the Heidelberg, the Belgic and the Canons of Dort, but also the Belhar Confession."
Apartheid-Era Document Finds New Life In Reformed Church 2010
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The camp had been attacked by the Nervii, a Belgic tribe, and was saved only by the appearance of Caesar leading several legions to the rescue.
Pullo and Vorenus JDsg 2007
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Celtic, the Belgic, and the Aquitanic Gaul, each of which spoke a different jargon.
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But before she went to join her husband in the Belgic capital,
Vanity Fair 2006
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Belgic and other Brythonic migrations (300150 B.C.E.) probably in the southeast.
3. Ireland 2001
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Belgic Confession, [137] 379, [138] 490 belief and aesthetic factors, [139] 306 - [140] 308
Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000
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In 1898 the Belgic expedition became the first to winter in the pack ice.
Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996
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As T.H. Baughman put it in his book Before the H.roes Came, "The Belgic expedition was a fugue in seven voices."
Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996
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Seutonius wrote of me that I was the Brittano-rum Rex - the king of all Britain - the greatest of the Belgic kings.
Ghost King Gemmell, David 1988
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