单词 | hunnic |
释义 | Hunnicadj. historical. Of or relating to the Huns (Hun n.1 1a). Cf. Hunnish adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of Asia > [adjective] Hunnian1607 Hunnican1607 Hunnish1625 Hunnic1683 Kushan1872 the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective] > like a Hun Hunnian1607 Hunnican1607 Hunnish1625 Hunnic1683 1683 tr. H. de Valois in tr. Eusebius et al. Hist. Church vi. xxi. 524 In each part whereof there is a door, and a passage leading to it, of Hunnick Work [L. operis Hunnici]. 1742 tr. Acta Germanica I. 28 The nation of the Huns is Sclavonic or Sarmatian; tho' by some Greek writers the Turks are call'd a Hunnic nation. 1880 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 9 210 The Serbs were led by a caste of a foreign race, probably Hunnic or Alanic. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 60/1 A Hunnic party. 1900 Q. Rev. July 145 The east had rest from Persia and could deal unhampered with the Gothic and Hunnic dangers. a1969 O. J. Maenchen-Helfen World of Huns (1973) ii. 125 The expansion of Hunnic power in the middle of the fifth century. 2003 T. S. Burns Rome & Barbarians 378 Once the Hunnic empire had disintegrated, gone was the need to defend against the old barbarians. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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