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▪ I. melibœan, a.1|mɛlɪˈbiːən|
[f. L. Melibœ-us the epithet of a purple dye) + -an.]
Pertaining to Melibœa, a Syrian island (colonized from Thessaly), famous for its purple dye.
1667Milton P.L. xi. 242 Over his lucid Armes A Militarie Vest of purple flowd, Livelier then Melibœan.
▪ II. meliˈbœan, a.2
[f. Melibœus, the name of one of the two interlocutors in the first eclogue of Virgil + -an.]
Used by Carlyle for: amœbæan.
1837Carlyle Misc. (1872) V. 224 In vain preached this apostle and that other simultaneously or in Melibœan sequence. ― Fr. Rev. III. i. viii, In rapid Melibœan stanzas, only a few lines each, they propose motions not a few. |