Definitions

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  • noun a native or inhabitant of Beotia
  • noun a simpleton
  • adjective of, or relating to Beotia
  • adjective simple minded

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Examples

  • And I will conclude, my very dear Richard, by saying that London air is Beotian air too, not fit for my Attic lungs to respire.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Ho ho ho, and off into the Beotian air go my Attic lungs!

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • And I will conclude, my very dear Richard, by saying that London air is Beotian air too, not fit for my Attic lungs to respire.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Ho ho ho, and off into the Beotian air go my Attic lungs!

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Mathematics, Fluxions, and the doctrine of all essential spirits that admit of proof -- in the name of Nebuchadanezar the divine, who invented the convenient scheme of taking a cold collation under a hedge -- by the power of that profound branch of learning, the Greek Digemma -- by the authority of true Latin, primo, of Beotian Greek, secundo, and of

    Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

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