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petrean, a. (and n.)|pɪˈtriːən|
Also petræan.
[f. L. petræ-us (= F. pétrée, It. petreo, a. Gr. πετραῖος rocky, stony, f. πέτρα rock) + -an. (Hence the name Arabia Petræa, Arabia the rocky.)]
1. Rocky; of or pertaining to rocks or stones; of Arabia Petræa. rare. ? Obs.
1632Lithgow Trav. v. 210 Arabia Petrea..diuideth the true Syria from Canaan; this Petrean countrey it selfe, deualling euen downe to the limits of Iacobs bridge. 1803G. S. Faber Cabiri II. 448 We have already found in that country the ancient petrean worship established. 1849J. Forbes Physician's Holiday xx. 294 The same petræan desert continues beyond Swarenbach.
2. (With capital initial.) Of or pertaining to Petra, a city in ancient Arabia Petræa. Also as n., an inhabitant of Petra.
1852E. A. Andrews Copious Latin-Eng. Lex. 1133/2 Pĕtra,..a city in Arabia Petraea, now the ruins of Wadi Musa... Hence..Pĕtreus, a, um, adj., Petrean. 1923A. Forder Petra: Perea: Phœnicia 10 One would gather from Bible records that the Petreans were always a proud and turbulent people. Ibid. 20 A feasible explanation..was given to me by a modern Petrean. 1925A. B. W. Kennedy Petra iii. 34 Very little is known about the religion of the Nabataeans as a nation, and even less, perhaps, about the religion of those of the nationality whom we may call particularly Petraeans, and who are responsible for the monuments of Petra. Ibid. 35 We know from the dated tombs at Madaïn Salih that the most complex and highly developed of the Petraean designs were already in existence before the commencement of our era. 1957Encycl. Brit. XVII. 652/2 The chief god of Petra was Dhūsharā..he was worshipped under the form of a black rectangular stone, a sort of Petraean Ka'ba. 1965N. Glueck Deities & Dolphins (1966) x. 331 The Petraean feminine figure on a sea animal could..be identified with an Atargatis or Aphrodite mounted on a fish-tailed Capricornus. |