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Cilician, a. and n.|sɪˈlɪʃɪən|
[f. Cilicia + -an.]
Of or pertaining to Cilicia, in Asia Minor; a native of Cilicia.
1594J. King On Jonas (1597) xxvi. 345 Hee had a purpose..to goe no further then to..the Cilician sea... But Ionas is borne from the Cilician to the ægean. 1768Tucker Lt. Nat. II. i. xxiii. 258 The last who staid was the Cilician of Tarsus. Ibid. 263 The Cilician doctrines interpreted by philosophers. 1837Penny Cycl. VII. 163/1 The annual tribute of the Cilicians to Darius consisted of 360 white horses and 500 talents of silver. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 383/2 Mount Amanus..was anciently the boundary between Cilicia and Syria, the narrow pass on the beach being closed by strong walls and well-protected gates, called the Amanic or Cilician gates. 1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 531/1 The worship of Mithras became known to the Romans through the Cilician pirates captured by Pompey about 70 b.c. 1902Ibid. XXVII. 94/1 The Cilicians appear to have belonged to that great family of non-Aryan tribes which included the Syro-Cappadocians, or Hittites, and the Proto-Armenians. 1920Glasgow Herald 22 Nov. 12 The Committees of Finance and Foreign Affairs, which are sitting on the subjects of the Syrian and Cilician credits. 1959Times 5 Aug. 4/2 Cotton growers of the Cilician plain. |