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Muscovite, n.1 and a. Now chiefly Hist. or arch.|ˈmʌskəvaɪt|
Also 6 Moschovite, Muscovit, 6–8 Moscovite.
[ad. mod.L. Mus-, Moscovīta, f. Mus-, Moscovia Muscovy: see -ite. Cf. F. Muscovite.]
A. n. A native or an inhabitant of Muscovy or Moscow; a Russian.
1555Eden Decades 256 b, They were cauled Moscouites of the chiefe citie of al the prouince named Moscouia or Mosca. 1570Dee Math. Pref. a iv, The wide Empire of the Moschouite. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 121, 303 Muscouites. Ibid. 265 Twentie adieus my frozen Muscouits [rimes with ‘wits’]. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. (1639) 47 Of the Greeke Communion are the Muscovites, the Russes in Poland [etc.]. 1700Prior Carmen Seculare 272 The young Muscovite, the mighty Head, Whose Sov'reign Terror forty Nations dread. 1788Priestley Lect. Hist. v. lxv. 523 The Moscovites..were as jealous as any people in the south. 1877D. M. Wallace Russia xxv. 386 No wonder the Muscovites were scandalized by his conduct. 1905Daily Chron. 11 Mar. 4/4 These may have been part and parcel of the plans of the Japanese commanders, deliberately devised to throw dust in the eyes of the Muscovite. 1961in Webster. 1973J. Shub Moscow by Nightmare x. 113 Are you one of those Muscovites who feel Leningrad is just a provincial town? 1975Times 8 Mar. 13/3 Muscovites expect journalists to strengthen good will between our countries.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Muscovy or its inhabitants, Russian.
1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 168 Certaine English men sayling by the Moscouite sea,..haue pierced euen to Cathaia. 1657North's Plutarch, Add. Lives (1676) 80 The Moscovite Language. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVI. 574/1 The Muscovite priests use exorcisms at the administration of baptism. 1821Shelley Hellas 528 That Christian hound, the Muscovite Ambassador. 1835Alison Hist. Europe (1847) IV. 54 The frontier of the Muscovite dominions. |