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Moabite, n. and a.|ˈməʊəbaɪt|
[ad. L. Mōabīta (Gr. Μωαβίτης, repr. Heb. mōābī), f. Moab: see -ite.]
A. n.
1. One of the people of Moab, which bordered on the territory of the trans-Jordanic Israelites. In 16–17th c. occas. applied opprobriously to Roman Catholics.
1382Wyclif Deut. xxiii. 3 Amonytis and Moabites [so all later versions]..shulen not goon into the chirche of the Lord. 1567Gude & Godlie Ball. (S.T.S.) 104 Ze Moabitis, with hornis twa ful hie, Outwart, lyke scheip, ze beir the beistis mark. a1623W. Pemble Justif. iii. iii. (1629) 111 That doctrine is part of the dregs of corrupted nature, maintained by Popish Moabites. 1903G. Matheson Repr. Men Bible II. 66 The Moabite worshipped the physically beautiful.
2. slang. (See quots.)
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Moabites, Serjeants, Bailiffs and their Crew. 1725in New Cant. Dict. 1823‘Jon Bee’ Dict. Turf 210 Moabites, baliffs and their followers.
B. adj. Pertaining to Moab or the Moabites.
the Moabite stone, a monument erected by Mesha king of Moab c 850 b.c., which furnishes the earliest known inscription in the Phoenician alphabet.
1870C. D. Ginsburg (title) The Moabite Stone; a facsimile of the original inscription. 1883Athenæum 1 Sept. 275/3 It is not to be supposed that because Berlin was taken in by the Moabite pottery, Dr. Lepsius would wish Bloomsbury to be deceived into buying a forged Deuteronomy.
Hence ˈMoabitess, a woman of the Moabites; Moabitic |məʊəˈbɪtɪk|, ˈMoabitish |-aɪtɪʃ| adjs., of or pertaining to or resembling the Moabites.
1530Coverdale Ruth ii. 6 The damsell the Moabitisse. 1611Bible ibid., The Moabitish damosell. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1540 The Moabitic worship. |