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pygmæan, -mean, n. and a.|pɪgˈmiːən|
Also 6– pig-.
[f. L. pygmæus (see pygmy) + -an.]
†A. n. = pygmy n. 1. Obs.
1555Eden Decades 85, I nowe compare a Pigmean or a dwarfte to a giant. 1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 191 Ther are also Pygmeans (men but a cubite in height) which riding on Goates and Rammes, do kepe warre with Cranes. 1594Blundevil Exerc. v. xii. (1636) 558 They are meere lyes that are wont to be told of the Pigmeans. 1601Holland Pliny vii. ii. I. 156 Aristotle writeth, That these Pygmæans liue in hollow caues & holes under the ground.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the pygmies; of the nature or size of a pygmy; diminutive, dwarfish.
1667Milton P.L. i. 780 Now less then smallest Dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pigmean Race Beyond the Indian mount. 1676Hobbes Iliad iii. (1677) 37 Or like the cranes, when from the north they fly, The army of pygmæan men to charge. 1735Somerville Chase iii. 139 The tall, plump, brawny Youth Curses his cumbrous Bulk; and envies now The short Pygmean Race. 1904Speaker 21 May 173/1 The expenditure of Japan..has been on a pigmean scale compared with that of Russia. |