Dahomann.adj.

1760 G. Sale et al. in Mod. Part Universal Hist. XVI. 448 The Dahomans acknowleged one invisible God, who protected them in all dangers and difficulties.

1793 A. Dalzel Hist. Dahomy i. i. 1 The Dahomans were formerly called Foys, and inhabited a small territory, on the north-east part of their present kingdom.

1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 285/2 The Dahomans..made their appearance on the coast.

1851 F. E. Forbes (title) Dahomey and the Dahomans, being the journals of two missions to the King of Dahomey.

1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 766/2 The Dahomans have at several times penetrated along the beach towards the east as far as Badagry.

1957 Encycl. Brit. VI. 978/2 Of this population the majority was constituted by the Dahomeyans or Dahomi (in their own language called Fon or Djedjé).

1959 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 349/1 In 1890..French troops were heavily defeated by 9,000 Dahomeans.

1965 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Snakes ii. 27 When a Dahoman caught sight of one of the reptiles, he immediately prostrated himself on the ground.

1995 M.-R. Trouillot Silencing Past ii. 65 Christophe..praised Dahomans as great warriors.

1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele I. iii. 36 The Ffon, or Dahoman, a dialect of the great Yoruba family, has,..a G and a Gb, the latter..difficult to articulate.

1760 G. Sale et al. in Mod. Part Universal Hist. XVI. vii. 447 A Dahoman priest standing upon the scaffold, pronounced over his head certain mysterious words.

1793 A. Dalzel Hist. Dahomy i. v. 21 The Dahoman Prince received the news of this victory with every possible demonstration of joy.

1799 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. Nov. 297 Read to him, in the Dahoman language, some of the pamphlets which had been published for and against the abolition of that [slave] traffic.

1820 J. Macleod (title) A voyage to Africa; with some account of the manners and customs of the Dahomian people.

1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 285/2 The captains of these forts..were now prisoners in the Dahoman camp.

1851 F. E. Forbes Dahomey & Dahomans I. App. C. 218 Vocabulary of the Dahoman Language.

1883 C. A. Moloney W. Afr. Fisheries 50 It has been for some time conveniently contrary to the Dahomean fetish to cross water.

1941 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 71 49/2 Perhaps the Dahomean diviners did not know as much.

1995 M.-R. Trouillot Silencing Past ii. 65 Dahoman oral history reports that the country was founded by Tacoodonou after a successful war against Da, the ruler of Abomey.