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† Jaˈponian, a. and n. Obs.
[f. Japon, Japan.]
A. adj. Of or relating to Japan; Japanese.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 526 A Iaponian King had erected three thousand..Temples, with houses adjoyned for the Bonzii. 1738[G. Smith] Curious Relations II. 278 After his death the Japonian Army withdrew from Coria.
B. n. A native of Japan.
1600Hakluyt Voy. III. 857 The Iaponians being furnished with brazen ordinance. 1627tr. Bacon's Life & Death (1651) 21 The Japonians are longer-liv'd than the Chineses. 1679Confinement 32 His Neighbours slight him, and there's not a Man, But looks as strange, as a Japonian.
So † ˈJaponite n., a Japanese.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 525 Between him and the King of China hapned warres about the Kingdome of Coray, which the Iaponites left upon his death. |