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Sassanid, n. and a.|ˈsæsənɪd|
Also 8–9 -ide. Also Sasanid.
[ad. med.L. Sassanidæ pl., f. Sassan, Sasan: see prec. + -id.]
a. n. A descendant of Sasan (see Sassanian), esp. a king of the Sassanian dynasty.
b. attrib. and adj. = Sassanian a.
1776Gibbon Decl. & F. (1782) I. viii. 256 note, The dynasty of the Sassanides. 1867C. M. Yonge Pupils of St. John xvii. 270 The Sassanid princes had taken up all the traditions of their supposed ancestry. 1871P. Smith Anc. Hist. East xviii. §7 (1881) 379 The Sassanids..adopted a sacred standard of leather emblazoned with gems. 1895Salmond Chr. Doctr. Immort. i. vi. 101 [Zoroastrianism] held the Persian mind till the end of the Sassanid dynasty. 1904F. C. Burkitt Early Eastern Christianity 25 The rise and decay of Christianity in the Sasanid Empire. 1910[see aquamanile]. 1929E. C. Thomas Lay Folks' Hist. Liturgy i. v. 22 In a.d. 202 Abjar IX., Prince of Edessa, adopted Christianity, but this Church [in Persia] was barely tolerated by the Parthians and often persecuted by the Sassanids. 1958A. Toynbee East to West 165 The capital of the Sasanid Persian Empire's Arab wardens of the Arabian marches. 1977Field 31 Mar. 525/1 For the early Persian dynasties such as the Archamedians and Sassanids, the rug may have been used as a gift from one ruler to another. |