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Libyan, a. and n.|ˈlɪbɪən|
[f. Libya + -an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Libya, the ancient name of a large country in North Africa, or to the modern state of Libya. By some philologists used as a designation for the Berber language, or for the group of mod. Hamitic langs. to which Berber belongs.
1592Nashe Pierce Penilesse 34 And such a spirit it was that possest the Libian Sapho, and the Emperorer Dioclesian. 1607Topsell Four-footed Beasts 115 The Lybian Roes..are..inferiour to the Lybian horses. 1882[see Kabyle]. 1921Handbk. Libya viii. 147 Head-quarters of the Libyan Battalion. 1956H. S. Villard Libya xii. 154 In the suppression of native rebellions most of the educated Libyan leaders were exterminated. 1971Encycl. Judaica XI. 205 During the Six Day War (1967)..widespread strikes of Libyan oil workers..brought the flow of oil to a temporary stop.
B. n.
a. An inhabitant of ancient or modern Libya.
b. The Libyan language.
1607Topsell Four-footed Beasts 41 Beares are tamed..for sports among the Roxolani and Libians. c1620T. Robinson M. Magd. 12 The Thyme of Hybla, and the Libyan flore. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 277 Whom Gentiles Ammon call and Libyan Jove. Ibid. xii. 634 A Comet..with torrid heat, And vapour as the Libyan Air adust. 1725E. Combe tr. Huet's Weakness of Hum. Und. 117 He might be call'd a Libyan, because he stay'd a long while at Cyrene, a City in Libya. 1832Tennyson Dream Fair Women 145 We drank the Libyan sun to sleep. 1838Thirlwall Greece III. 61 The Libyan prince, Psammetichus. 1886Sheldon tr. Flaubert's Salammbô 11 A Libyan of colossal stature. 1937H. Pope St. Augustine of Hippo i. 18 In the purple-producing island of Girba..Libyan was spoken, as Berber indeed is to this day. 1939L. H. Gray Found. Lang. xii. 366 Graffiti..of uncertain date and in a script which marks them off from ancient Libyan and from modern Tuareg alike. 1956H. S. Villard Libya xii. 155 The Libyans..continue to place restrictions on the entry of Italian citizens into Cyrenaica. 1975Times 11 Jan. 12/6 The Libyans, still the most active of the governmental supporters of Arab extremists.
So † Libyc (occas. Lybic) [ad. Gr. λιβυκός], † Libycan adjs.
a1541Wyatt Song of Iopas in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 93 The wanderyng Troian knight, whom Iunos wrath with stormes did force in Libyk sands to light. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. ii. 22 On lybicke Ocean wide. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 28 æmonian bears,..night-ranging, Lybican, menacing. 1618Bolton Florus iii. vi. (1636) 192 Gellius was set to waft upon the Tuscan Sea;..Lentulus upon the Libyc. 1654Vilvain Epit. Ess. 175 b, Which dwelt in utmost Lybic coasts. |