Definitions

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  • adjective Alternative spelling of Mauritian., from Mauritius
  • noun Alternative spelling of Mauritian., someone from Mauritius
  • adjective Of or pertaining to Maurice, a Byzantine emperor.
  • adjective Of, or relating to other people called Maurice, for example Maurice of Nassau, Saint Maurice etc.

Etymologies

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From the given name Maurice

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Examples

  • Maurician Press develops a system entirely dangerous and which seems to have this for a foundation -- to discredit and debase English institutions and the English Government in the eyes of all.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 Various

  • Kingsley was ardent in all forms of sport, and an enthusiast for Maurician theology, holding, as he said, that it had pleased God to show him and Maurice things which He had concealed from Carlyle.

    The Life of Froude Paul, Herbert 1905

  • Kingsley was ardent in all forms of sport, and an enthusiast for Maurician theology, holding, as he said, that it had pleased God to show him and Maurice things which He had concealed from Carlyle.

    The Life of Froude 1894

  • The Maurician school and its 'two Army-corps and a cavalry division,' which were to be launched at the Caucasus, must have received a severe check from the earlier article.

    Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. John Knox Laughton 1872

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