Cimbrianadj.n.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 158 Likewise the Cimbrian, Hircanian, and Magnesian Dogs.

1781 J. Wesley Jrnl. 1 Sept. (1938) VI. 333 The Gomerians spread swiftly through the north of Europe, as far as the Cimbrian Chersonesus (including Sweden, Denmark..and divers other countries).

1853 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 9) xx. 331 This event, commonly called the ‘Cimbrian Deluge’, is supposed to have happened about three centuries before the Christian era.

1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 7/1 All the modern sections of the Cimbrian Celts.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 163/2 Jutland..is sometimes called the Chersonesus, or the Cimbrian peninsula after the Cimbri.

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. I3^v I thought these Cymesses like the Cimbrians had bene some strange nation.

1781 J. Wesley Jrnl. 1 Sept. (1938) VI. 333 The former were called Gomerians, Cimmerians, Cimbrians, and afterwards Celtiae, Galatae, and Gauls.

1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 780/1 Cimbri, or Cimbrians,..one of the most formidable enemies of the Roman power.

1893 H. Allen in Smithsonian Misc. Coll. XXXIV. 40 In a Cimbrian and a Peruvian the bone is placed well within the region of the ascending process of the maxilla.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxvi. 499 The broken trophies of Cimbric and Armenian victories.

1844 H. W. Longfellow in Graham's Mag. May 225/1 Through Cimbric forest roars the Norseman's song.

1862 Chambers's Encycl. III. 35/1 The extremity of the peninsula called from them the Cimbric Chersonese, now Jütland.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 408/1 Denmark, in the strictest geographical sense, comprises the northern portion of the Cimbric Peninsula called Jutland (Jylland) and the Danish Islands.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. III. 573/1 Cimbri, a Germanic people..who inhabited Jutland, which was known to the Romans as the Cimbric peninsula.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Hist. sig. D 1 Of these languages Dr. Hickes has thus exhibited the genealogy. Gothick: Anglo-Saxon, Francick, Cimbrick.