Macedoniann.¹adj.¹

Brit.

/ˌmasᵻˈdəʊnɪən/, U.S.

/ˌmæsəˈdoʊniən/

Forms: Middle English Macedonyen, 1500s– Macedonian.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin, combined with English elements. Partly from a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Macedonius , Macedonia , -an suffix .

Etymology: Originally < classical Latin Macedonius ( < Hellenistic Greek Μακεδόνιος < Μακεδον- , Μακεδών (see Macedon n.) + -ιος , suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix, but now usually understood as < (classical Latin) Macedonia ( < ancient Greek Μακεδονία ) + -an suffix. In quot. c1400 at sense A. 1a translating Old French Macedonien. With sense A. 1c compare Macedonian Makedonec (plural Makedonci ); with sense A. 2a compare makedonski jazik the Macedonian language. With the adjective compare earlier Macedonish adj.Macedonia occurs as a place name in English contexts from Old English onwards (in early use frequently with Latin case inflections); compare also the anglicized form Macedony, which is found from the 14th cent. (now archaic).

A. n.¹

a. A member of an ancient people inhabiting the kingdom of Macedonia (see Macedon n.). Now historical.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of ancient cities or states > [noun]

MedeeOE

PartheOE

PuniceOE

NineviteOE

Trojanc1330

sodomitea1382

Phoeniciana1387

Macedonianc1400

Parthianc1400

Macedonc1440

Phrygian?1473

Mycenaeanc1487

Tyrian1513

Sidonian?1520

Galatian1526

Canaanite1530

Cananaean1534

Milesian1550

Sogdian1553

Syrophœnician1560

Molossian1563

Hyrcanian1567

Palmyrene1567

Pergamenian1579

Smyrnian1579

Mysian1581

Carthaginian1592

Punican1595

Lycian1598

Smyrnaean1598

Phocaean1600

Gallo-greeks1601

Iberian1601

Minaean1601

Susian1601

Cappadocian1607

Carian1607

Paphlagonian1607

Hamathite1611

Pergamene1612

Byzantiana1620

Gallo-graecians1619

Chalcidian1654

Philadelphiana1680

Xanthian1685

Palmyrenian1697

Isaurian1776

Dardan1813

Byzantine1836

Bœotian1839

Ilian1847

Susianian1874

Libyo-Phœnician1876

Khaldian1882

Mitannian1907

Iconian1911

Petraean1923

Lycaonian1926

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 3362 (MED) Ne hadden ben oure Tiriens, Þou haddest gon wiþ Macedonyens.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 167 Philippus aunswered, yt the Macedonians [L. Macedones] wer feloes of no fyne witte in their termes but altogether grosse, clubbyshe, and rusticall.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xxviii. 77 The Macedonians..thought to have sipt up every mans State in less then a months time.

1742 G. Turnbull tr. Justinus Hist. xxviii. iii. 222 Antigonus..being besieged in his palace by a menaceful mob of the Macedonians.

1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. ii. i. 181 I will teach thee, young braggart, to play the Macedonian with me.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 299/2 In race, as in geographical position, the Thessalians held an intermediate place between the non-Hellenic Macedonians and the Greeks of pure blood.

1990 Chronicles July 46/2 What happens to a highly developed community like Sparta, after it has been conquered..first by the Macedonians and then the Romans?

b. An inhabitant of the region of Macedonia. In later use: a person from any of the geographical entities called Macedonia, esp. the administration general of Macedonia in modern Greece or the Republic of Macedonia (a republic within Yugoslavia, 1944–91 and since 1991 an independent state, called, since 2019, the Republic of North Macedonia). Also with preceding adjective specifying ethnic origin or country of residence.After the fall of the Macedonian kingdom in 168 b.c., the state was formally divided by the Romans into four nominally autonomous republics, which were ultimately reunited as a Roman province in 146 b.c. Subsequently, this ethnically diverse area (the precise boundaries of which varied in different periods) came under the rule of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires and the Bulgarians. After the Balkan Wars of 1912–13 it was partitioned between several countries, and, by the late 20th cent., parts of its territory fell in Greece, the Republic of Macedonia (now the Republic of North Macedonia), Bulgaria, and Albania.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of other eastern provinces > [noun]

Macedonian1582

Wallachian1603

Pomeranian1652

Moldo-Wallachian1852

Galician1903

1582 Bible (Rheims) 2 Cor. ix. 2 I know your prompt minde: for the which I glorie of you to the Macedonians.

1611 Bible (King James) Acts xxvii. 2 And entring into a ship of Adramyttium, wee lanched, meaning to saile by the coasts of Asia, one Aristarchus a Macedonian, of Thessalonica, beeing with vs.

1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 197 The first who threw the yoake off, were the Macedonians.

1882 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 11 249 The Macedonians noticed a vast body of Hungarians coming towards them and threatening them.

1966 D. Dakin Greek Struggle in Macedonia xii. 307 There seems also to have been some conflict between the National Greeks and the Greek Macedonians over the question of leadership.

1968 P. P. Bourboulis tr. I. K. Basdrabelles (title) The Greek struggle for independence: the Macedonians in the revolution of 1821.

1993 H. Poulton Balkans (ed. 2) xiii. 175 The Greek authorities have, from the outset of the modern Greek state, consistently denied the existence of the Slav Macedonians as a separate people from the Greeks and instead officially referred to them as Slavophone Greeks while the Bulgarians claimed them to be Bulgarians.

1999 Evening Standard (Electronic ed.) 14 Apr. He had invented a rule that the Albanian Macedonians..must not talk to the Albanian Kosovans.

c. A member of a people of Macedonia distinguished by their Slavonic language and culture. Also: a person identified with this ethnic group, whether or not a native or inhabitant of Macedonia.

ΚΠ

1897 W. E. Gladstone Let. 19 Jan. in Macedonian Question (1902) 3 Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Servia for the Servians?

1902 N. Buxton in Macedonian Question (1902) 44 There is, moreover, a certain enmity in Bulgaria towards the Macedonians.

1935 S. Christowe Heroes & Assassins vii. 116 The Macedonians took as their motto ‘Liberty or Death’.

1950 E. Barker Macedonia ii. 23 After King Alexander instituted his dictatorship in January 1929..the Macedonians began to settle down and to accept Yugoslav rule passively.

1971 S. E. Palmer & R. R. King Yugoslav Communism & Macedonian Question iv. 64 Evidently there was no attempt by the Macedonians to proclaim an independent or autonomous state, as the Croatians did.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VI. 442/1 In the Greek province are Slavic speakers, Macedonians, and Pomaks, or Bulgarian-speaking Muslims.

1983 R. Pearson Nat. Minorities in E. Europe iv. 107 Minorities like the Ruthenes, Belorussians and Macedonians disappeared as corporate identities beneath the relentless Americanisation they encountered [in emigration].

1994 Boston Globe 16 Oct. (News section) 6/5 Founded in the 19th century to liberate the area from Ottoman rule, VMRO has inflamed the fears of 400,000 Albanians with its ‘Macedonia for the Macedonians’ chant.

1996 Jrnl. Mod. Greek Stud. 14 274 Two points are especially controversial: first, that the word ‘Macedonian’ was employed as a national (and not simply regional) identification during the second half of the nineteenth century; secondly, that the majority of the Slav population in the region identified with the separatist movement.

a. The South Slavonic language of the Slav Macedonians, closely related to Bulgarian and written in the Cyrillic alphabet. Also in Macedonian-speaking adj.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Balto-Slavic > Slavonic > Macedonian and Bulgarian

Bulgarian1869

Macedonian1883

1883 W. R. Morfill Slavonic Lit. i. 4 Classification of the Slavonic languages... Modern Bulgarian... (c) Macedonian.

1918 T. R. Georgevitch Macedonia xi. 194 The Old Slav sound group lъ has in Bulgarian been replaced by ъl, and in Serbian and Macedonian by u.

1946 R. Capell Simiomata ii. 85 A Macedonian nationalist, one Gotchi, has been leading a band of Macedonian-speaking Andartes.

1955 R. Jakobson Slavic Lang. (ed. 2) 15 Still preserved is the nasal component in..some border dialects of Slovenian and Macedonian.

1964 M. Partridge Serbo-Croatian 13 Together with Bulgarian, Macedonian and Slovene, Serbo-Croatian belongs linguistically to the southern branch of the Slavonic group.

1972 W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 162 The greatest concentration of Macedonian speakers was found in that part of the province which passed to Serbia. In 1945, this area became the Macedonian Constituent Republic of Yugoslavia with Macedonian as its official language. The number of speakers exceeds one million.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VI. 442/2 Macedonian became the official language of the People's Republic of Macedonia, an autonomous area in Yugoslavia, when it was established in the 1940s.

1992 Economist 30 May 80/2 Ring the operator in Sydney and you can use (for nothing) the services of interpreters who speak 22 languages, ranging from Lao to Macedonian.

b. The language of ancient Macedonia, recorded in fragmentary remains, and usually regarded as a variety of Greek. Now historical.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Greek > Greek dialects

common dialect1604

Aeolic1606

Ionic1606

Ionic dialect1629

Athenian1638

Theban1820

Laconian1830

Doric1837

Rumelian1859

Pamphylian1880

Tsakonian1902

Pontic1910

Thessalian1910

koine1913

Messenian1928

Macedonian1933

Mycenaean1955

1933 C. D. Buck Compar. Gram. Greek & Latin 14 Languages for which Illyrian origin is claimed or disputed are Venetic and Messapian in ancient Italy, Macedonian, and Albanian. Macedonian, that is, the native speech of the Macedonians as distinguished from the Attic κοινή which they came to adopt as their official language, is known from proper names and rather numerous glosses.

1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 330 The relation of Macedonian to Greek is uncertain.

1966 E. G. Polomé in H. Birnbaum & J. Puhvel Anc. Indo-European Dial. 70 σιβύνη and σιγύνη are both occasionally ascribed to Macedonian by scholiasts and lexicographers.

1972 W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 6 Since Macedonian was in contact with Illyrian and Thracian, borrowings from these languages could account for the exotic strain... It is to be assumed that the Macedonian dialect (or language) succumbed to Attic Greek..during the Hellenistic Age.

B. adj.¹

Of or relating to (ancient or present-day) Macedonia or Macedonians.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective] > regions of Greece

Macedonc1450

Olympian1523

Ionian?1556

Macedonian1556

Achaean1567

Peloponnesian1569

Molossian1587

Thessalian1594

Thracian1594

Olympic1597

Argive1598

Attic1599

isthmian1603

Pharsalian1605

Aonian1607

Attical1610

Phocian1614

Messenianc1615

Marathonian1623

Bœotic1851

Athoan1869

Thraco-Illyrian1931

Athonite1963

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Balto-Slavic > Slavic > Macedonian

MacedonishOE

Macedonian1556

1556 A. Vele in R. Robinson tr. T. More Utopia (ed. 2) Printer to Rdr. sig. Sviii It is a tongue to vs muche straunger then the Indian,..the Macedonian, [etc.].

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 196 At one time is giuen them nine Macedonian Bushels, but..of drinke eyther wine or water thirty Macedonian pintes at a time.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. ii. 29 Alexander erected the Macedonian trophies on the banks of the Hyphasis.

1844 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. lxvi. 419 It had received a Macedonian admiral in its port.

1906 H. N. Brailsford Macedonia 101 The Macedonian dialect is neither one nor the other, but in certain structural features it agrees rather with Bulgarian than Servian.

1958 Listener 4 Dec. 912/2 The first Macedonian dictionary is being prepared, there are newspapers in the Macedonian language, and Skopje has acquired a brand-new Macedonian university.

1991 Economist 14 Sept. 64/3 The main brake on Macedonian independence is not its neighbours but its moribund economy.

1994 West Australian (Perth) 29 Mar. The Labor Party's State executive called on the Federal Government to change the official name of the Macedonian community in Australia to Slav Macedonians.

Compounds

Macedonian parsley n. [compare Middle French, French persil macedoine (1563; early 14th cent. in Old French as perresil macidoine, perrecil macidone), post-classical Latin petroselinum macedonicum (4th cent.), petrosilium macedonicum (c1230–50 in a British source)] now rare (in early use) any of several plants of the family Apiaceae ( Umbelliferae) esp. alexanders, Smyrnium olusatrum; (later) spec. Athamanta macedonica, which has somewhat parsley-like leaves; cf. earlier parsley of Macedonia n. at parsley n. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > seseli

parsley of Macedonia1526

mountain siler?1550

water withy1559

seseli1578

Macedonian parsley1649

Marseilles hartwort1727

1649 N. Culpeper Physicall Directory 151 Take of Calaminth of the mountains, Penyroyal, Origanum, The seeds of Macedonian Parsly, common Smallage, Seseli, of each two drachms.

1699 G. Harvey Vanities Philos. & Physick xi. 120 All Carminative Seeds, viz. Parsley, Fennil, Cummin, Anis, Dill, Carui, Daucus, Cardamom, Marsh-Parsley,..Macedonian Parsley, [etc.].

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 257 To make Celery, and Macedonian Parsly grow very fast.

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Apium The Macedonian Parsley is a Stranger in our Country, and not to be found except in curious Botanick Gardens.

1747 Philos. Trans. 1746 (Royal Soc.) 44 230 Two Persons, who had eaten these roots, mistaking them for Macedonian Parsley.

1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. II Petroselinum Macedonicum, Apium petræum or Petrapium, Macedonian parsley.

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 102/2 Macedonian Parsley, Athamanta macedonica.

2000 R. F. Langley Coll. Poems 59 It's Macedonian parsley and also, he says, the surface of fresh snow is more like fur.

Macedonian phalanx n. [compare classical Latin Macedonum phalanx , lit. ‘phalanx of Macedonians’, ancient Greek ἡ Μακεδονικὴ ϕάλαγξ ; in quot. 1585 translating Middle French phalange Macedonique] Ancient History the characteristic formation of the Macedonian army, consisting of infantry armed with long two-handed pikes and marshalled sixteen-deep in close formation (introduced by Philip II, king of Macedonia 395–36 b.c., as an improvement on the earlier Greek hoplite infantry).

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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > compact formation > specific

Macedonian phalanx1585

box formation1932

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. iii. f. 73 The Macedonian Phalangue with the which Alexander the great extended his domination and monarchy almoste vpon all the regions of the earth.

1745 J. Swift To Dr. Sheridan 31 Thy words together ty'd in small hanks, Close as the Macedonian phalanx.

1989 R. L. O'Connell Of Arms & Men iv. 61 Designed around a basic building block, or syntagma, of 256 men, lined 16 across and 16 deep, the Macedonian phalanx was not only uniformly thicker but projected a good deal farther ahead than its Greek counterparts.

Macedonian question n. ancient or modern Macedonia as a political issue.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction of or areas under specific authorities > [noun]

Macedonian question1872

1872 A. W. Ward tr. E. Curtius Hist. Greece V. vii. iii. 272 He [sc. Demosthenes] took the Macedonian question itself in hand, and made his first Philippic oration proper.

1886 Littell's Living Age 6 Nov. 348/2 It is this Macedonian question on which hinge Russia's promises not to interfere in Bulgaria so long as internal order is maintained.

1971 S. E. Palmer & R. R. King (title) Yugoslav communism and the Macedonian question.

1996 Jrnl. Mod. Greek Stud. 14 253 I should point out that most of the scholarship surrounding the Macedonian Question is strongly partisan, with opposing sides attempting to prove the righteousness of their own beliefs.

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Macedoniann.²adj.²

Brit.

/ˌmasᵻˈdəʊnɪən/, U.S.

/ˌmæsəˈdoʊniən/

Forms: late Middle English Macedonyan, late Middle English Macedonyen, 1500s– Macedonian.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Macedonianus.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin Macedonianus < Byzantine Greek Μακεδονιανός < Μακεδόνιος Macedonius + -ανος -an suffix. Compare Middle French, French macédonien (1541).

Church History.

A. n.²

A follower of the Pneumatomachian doctrine attributed to Macedonius, a bishop of Constantinople in the 4th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Macedonianism > [noun] > person

Macedonianc1449

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 499 (MED) The sect of Macedonyanys..helden that the Holi Goost was not God.

1559 N. Heath Speech 30 Jan. in W. Cobbett Parl. Hist. (1806) I. 645 Damase, then bishop of Rome.., did give sentence against the heretics, Macedonians, Sabellians and Eunomians.

1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 18 Arians, Eunomians, Macedonians, and such other heretikes.

1645 T. Vane Lost Sheepe 33 Now how sutable this doctrine is to the peace and tranquility of Common-Wealths,..though it bee to Arrianisme, to the heresy of the Macedonians, [etc.].

1701 tr. J. Le Clerc Lives Primitive Fathers 252 He [sc. Gregory] disputes about the Consubstantiality of the Holy Spirit, against the Macedonians.

1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 1578 They are Macedonians, esteeming the Holy Spirit as no person, but only an influence or emanation.

1896 G. P. Fisher Hist. Christian Doctrine i. ii. iii. 145 When Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople, pronounced the Holy Ghost to be a creature subordinate to the Son, his opinion was generally considered heretical, and his followers, the Macedonians, were given the nickname of ‘Pneumatomachians’.

1915 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VIII. 225/2 The leading doctrine of the Macedonians is found in the thesis characterized by their opponents as ‘Pneumatomachian’.

1996 M. Wiles Archetypal Heresy ii. 43 Homoousians, Homoiousians, and Macedonians are all included in this blanket condemnation.

B. adj.²

Of or relating to Macedonians or their beliefs.

ΚΠ

1585 T. Rogers Eng. Creede: 1st Pt. (new ed.) 4 These were the Arian and Macedonian heretiques, who were called Pneumatomachoie, because they warred against the holie Ghost.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Semi-Arians A new branch of Macedonian Semi-arians, or Pneumatomachi.

1910 New Schaff-Herzog Encycl. Relig. Knowl. VII. 111/2 (heading) The development of the ‘Macedonian’ sect..began in Alexandria.

1963 P. W. Harkins Baptismal Instructions 210 For the Macedonian heresy, cf. G. Bardy, ‘Macédonius et les Macédoniens’.

1993 16th Cent. Jrnl. 24 797 (note) The Donatist, Eumonian and Macedonian heresies flourish during a schism.

Derivatives

ˈMaceˌdonianism n.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Macedonianism > [noun]

Macedonianism1642

1642 J. Hales Tract conc. Schisme 9 Manichanisme, Valentinianisme, Macedonianisme, Mahometisme, are truley and properly Heresies.

1646 J. Maxwell Burden of Issachar 21 The grossest Heresies, Arianisme, Arminianisme, Macedonianisme [etc.].

1855 M. J. Spalding Miscellanea i. 28 During this period the Church saw Arianism, Macedonianism, Nestorianism, Eutychianism, Pelagianism, and Monothelitism, rise in succession.

1993 16th Cent. Jrnl. 24 797 (note) Councils deal with Pelagianism..and Macedonianism.

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单词	macedonian
释义	Macedoniann.¹adj.¹ Brit. /ˌmasᵻˈdəʊnɪən/, U.S. /ˌmæsəˈdoʊniən/ Forms: Middle English Macedonyen, 1500s– Macedonian. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin, combined with English elements. Partly from a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Macedonius , Macedonia , -an suffix . Etymology: Originally < classical Latin Macedonius ( < Hellenistic Greek Μακεδόνιος < Μακεδον- , Μακεδών (see Macedon n.) + -ιος , suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix, but now usually understood as < (classical Latin) Macedonia ( < ancient Greek Μακεδονία ) + -an suffix. In quot. c1400 at sense A. 1a translating Old French Macedonien. With sense A. 1c compare Macedonian Makedonec (plural Makedonci ); with sense A. 2a compare makedonski jazik the Macedonian language. With the adjective compare earlier Macedonish adj.Macedonia occurs as a place name in English contexts from Old English onwards (in early use frequently with Latin case inflections); compare also the anglicized form Macedony, which is found from the 14th cent. (now archaic). A. n.¹ 1. a. A member of an ancient people inhabiting the kingdom of Macedonia (see Macedon n.). Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of ancient cities or states > [noun] MedeeOE PartheOE PuniceOE NineviteOE Trojanc1330 sodomitea1382 Phoeniciana1387 Macedonianc1400 Parthianc1400 Macedonc1440 Phrygian?1473 Mycenaeanc1487 Tyrian1513 Sidonian?1520 Galatian1526 Canaanite1530 Cananaean1534 Milesian1550 Sogdian1553 Syrophœnician1560 Molossian1563 Hyrcanian1567 Palmyrene1567 Pergamenian1579 Smyrnian1579 Mysian1581 Carthaginian1592 Punican1595 Lycian1598 Smyrnaean1598 Phocaean1600 Gallo-greeks1601 Iberian1601 Minaean1601 Susian1601 Cappadocian1607 Carian1607 Paphlagonian1607 Hamathite1611 Pergamene1612 Byzantiana1620 Gallo-graecians1619 Chalcidian1654 Philadelphiana1680 Xanthian1685 Palmyrenian1697 Isaurian1776 Dardan1813 Byzantine1836 Bœotian1839 Ilian1847 Susianian1874 Libyo-Phœnician1876 Khaldian1882 Mitannian1907 Iconian1911 Petraean1923 Lycaonian1926 c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 3362 (MED) Ne hadden ben oure Tiriens, Þou haddest gon wiþ Macedonyens. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 167 Philippus aunswered, yt the Macedonians [L. Macedones] wer feloes of no fyne witte in their termes but altogether grosse, clubbyshe, and rusticall. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xxviii. 77 The Macedonians..thought to have sipt up every mans State in less then a months time. 1742 G. Turnbull tr. Justinus Hist. xxviii. iii. 222 Antigonus..being besieged in his palace by a menaceful mob of the Macedonians. 1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. ii. i. 181 I will teach thee, young braggart, to play the Macedonian with me. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 299/2 In race, as in geographical position, the Thessalians held an intermediate place between the non-Hellenic Macedonians and the Greeks of pure blood. 1990 Chronicles July 46/2 What happens to a highly developed community like Sparta, after it has been conquered..first by the Macedonians and then the Romans? b. An inhabitant of the region of Macedonia. In later use: a person from any of the geographical entities called Macedonia, esp. the administration general of Macedonia in modern Greece or the Republic of Macedonia (a republic within Yugoslavia, 1944–91 and since 1991 an independent state, called, since 2019, the Republic of North Macedonia). Also with preceding adjective specifying ethnic origin or country of residence.After the fall of the Macedonian kingdom in 168 b.c., the state was formally divided by the Romans into four nominally autonomous republics, which were ultimately reunited as a Roman province in 146 b.c. Subsequently, this ethnically diverse area (the precise boundaries of which varied in different periods) came under the rule of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires and the Bulgarians. After the Balkan Wars of 1912–13 it was partitioned between several countries, and, by the late 20th cent., parts of its territory fell in Greece, the Republic of Macedonia (now the Republic of North Macedonia), Bulgaria, and Albania. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of other eastern provinces > [noun] Macedonian1582 Wallachian1603 Pomeranian1652 Moldo-Wallachian1852 Galician1903 1582 Bible (Rheims) 2 Cor. ix. 2 I know your prompt minde: for the which I glorie of you to the Macedonians. 1611 Bible (King James) Acts xxvii. 2 And entring into a ship of Adramyttium, wee lanched, meaning to saile by the coasts of Asia, one Aristarchus a Macedonian, of Thessalonica, beeing with vs. View more context for this quotation 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 197 The first who threw the yoake off, were the Macedonians. 1882 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 11 249 The Macedonians noticed a vast body of Hungarians coming towards them and threatening them. 1966 D. Dakin Greek Struggle in Macedonia xii. 307 There seems also to have been some conflict between the National Greeks and the Greek Macedonians over the question of leadership. 1968 P. P. Bourboulis tr. I. K. Basdrabelles (title) The Greek struggle for independence: the Macedonians in the revolution of 1821. 1993 H. Poulton Balkans (ed. 2) xiii. 175 The Greek authorities have, from the outset of the modern Greek state, consistently denied the existence of the Slav Macedonians as a separate people from the Greeks and instead officially referred to them as Slavophone Greeks while the Bulgarians claimed them to be Bulgarians. 1999 Evening Standard (Electronic ed.) 14 Apr. He had invented a rule that the Albanian Macedonians..must not talk to the Albanian Kosovans. c. A member of a people of Macedonia distinguished by their Slavonic language and culture. Also: a person identified with this ethnic group, whether or not a native or inhabitant of Macedonia. ΚΠ 1897 W. E. Gladstone Let. 19 Jan. in Macedonian Question (1902) 3 Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Servia for the Servians? 1902 N. Buxton in Macedonian Question (1902) 44 There is, moreover, a certain enmity in Bulgaria towards the Macedonians. 1935 S. Christowe Heroes & Assassins vii. 116 The Macedonians took as their motto ‘Liberty or Death’. 1950 E. Barker Macedonia ii. 23 After King Alexander instituted his dictatorship in January 1929..the Macedonians began to settle down and to accept Yugoslav rule passively. 1971 S. E. Palmer & R. R. King Yugoslav Communism & Macedonian Question iv. 64 Evidently there was no attempt by the Macedonians to proclaim an independent or autonomous state, as the Croatians did. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VI. 442/1 In the Greek province are Slavic speakers, Macedonians, and Pomaks, or Bulgarian-speaking Muslims. 1983 R. Pearson Nat. Minorities in E. Europe iv. 107 Minorities like the Ruthenes, Belorussians and Macedonians disappeared as corporate identities beneath the relentless Americanisation they encountered [in emigration]. 1994 Boston Globe 16 Oct. (News section) 6/5 Founded in the 19th century to liberate the area from Ottoman rule, VMRO has inflamed the fears of 400,000 Albanians with its ‘Macedonia for the Macedonians’ chant. 1996 Jrnl. Mod. Greek Stud. 14 274 Two points are especially controversial: first, that the word ‘Macedonian’ was employed as a national (and not simply regional) identification during the second half of the nineteenth century; secondly, that the majority of the Slav population in the region identified with the separatist movement. 2. a. The South Slavonic language of the Slav Macedonians, closely related to Bulgarian and written in the Cyrillic alphabet. Also in Macedonian-speaking adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Balto-Slavic > Slavonic > Macedonian and Bulgarian Bulgarian1869 Macedonian1883 1883 W. R. Morfill Slavonic Lit. i. 4 Classification of the Slavonic languages... Modern Bulgarian... (c) Macedonian. 1918 T. R. Georgevitch Macedonia xi. 194 The Old Slav sound group lъ has in Bulgarian been replaced by ъl, and in Serbian and Macedonian by u. 1946 R. Capell Simiomata ii. 85 A Macedonian nationalist, one Gotchi, has been leading a band of Macedonian-speaking Andartes. 1955 R. Jakobson Slavic Lang. (ed. 2) 15 Still preserved is the nasal component in..some border dialects of Slovenian and Macedonian. 1964 M. Partridge Serbo-Croatian 13 Together with Bulgarian, Macedonian and Slovene, Serbo-Croatian belongs linguistically to the southern branch of the Slavonic group. 1972 W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 162 The greatest concentration of Macedonian speakers was found in that part of the province which passed to Serbia. In 1945, this area became the Macedonian Constituent Republic of Yugoslavia with Macedonian as its official language. The number of speakers exceeds one million. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VI. 442/2 Macedonian became the official language of the People's Republic of Macedonia, an autonomous area in Yugoslavia, when it was established in the 1940s. 1992 Economist 30 May 80/2 Ring the operator in Sydney and you can use (for nothing) the services of interpreters who speak 22 languages, ranging from Lao to Macedonian. b. The language of ancient Macedonia, recorded in fragmentary remains, and usually regarded as a variety of Greek. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Greek > Greek dialects common dialect1604 Aeolic1606 Ionic1606 Ionic dialect1629 Athenian1638 Theban1820 Laconian1830 Doric1837 Rumelian1859 Pamphylian1880 Tsakonian1902 Pontic1910 Thessalian1910 koine1913 Messenian1928 Macedonian1933 Mycenaean1955 1933 C. D. Buck Compar. Gram. Greek & Latin 14 Languages for which Illyrian origin is claimed or disputed are Venetic and Messapian in ancient Italy, Macedonian, and Albanian. Macedonian, that is, the native speech of the Macedonians as distinguished from the Attic κοινή which they came to adopt as their official language, is known from proper names and rather numerous glosses. 1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 330 The relation of Macedonian to Greek is uncertain. 1966 E. G. Polomé in H. Birnbaum & J. Puhvel Anc. Indo-European Dial. 70 σιβύνη and σιγύνη are both occasionally ascribed to Macedonian by scholiasts and lexicographers. 1972 W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 6 Since Macedonian was in contact with Illyrian and Thracian, borrowings from these languages could account for the exotic strain... It is to be assumed that the Macedonian dialect (or language) succumbed to Attic Greek..during the Hellenistic Age. B. adj.¹ Of or relating to (ancient or present-day) Macedonia or Macedonians. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective] > regions of Greece Macedonc1450 Olympian1523 Ionian?1556 Macedonian1556 Achaean1567 Peloponnesian1569 Molossian1587 Thessalian1594 Thracian1594 Olympic1597 Argive1598 Attic1599 isthmian1603 Pharsalian1605 Aonian1607 Attical1610 Phocian1614 Messenianc1615 Marathonian1623 Bœotic1851 Athoan1869 Thraco-Illyrian1931 Athonite1963 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Balto-Slavic > Slavic > Macedonian MacedonishOE Macedonian1556 1556 A. Vele in R. Robinson tr. T. More Utopia (ed. 2) Printer to Rdr. sig. Sviii It is a tongue to vs muche straunger then the Indian,..the Macedonian, [etc.]. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 196 At one time is giuen them nine Macedonian Bushels, but..of drinke eyther wine or water thirty Macedonian pintes at a time. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. ii. 29 Alexander erected the Macedonian trophies on the banks of the Hyphasis. 1844 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. lxvi. 419 It had received a Macedonian admiral in its port. 1906 H. N. Brailsford Macedonia 101 The Macedonian dialect is neither one nor the other, but in certain structural features it agrees rather with Bulgarian than Servian. 1958 Listener 4 Dec. 912/2 The first Macedonian dictionary is being prepared, there are newspapers in the Macedonian language, and Skopje has acquired a brand-new Macedonian university. 1991 Economist 14 Sept. 64/3 The main brake on Macedonian independence is not its neighbours but its moribund economy. 1994 West Australian (Perth) 29 Mar. The Labor Party's State executive called on the Federal Government to change the official name of the Macedonian community in Australia to Slav Macedonians. Compounds Macedonian parsley n. [compare Middle French, French persil macedoine (1563; early 14th cent. in Old French as perresil macidoine, perrecil macidone), post-classical Latin petroselinum macedonicum (4th cent.), petrosilium macedonicum (c1230–50 in a British source)] now rare (in early use) any of several plants of the family Apiaceae ( Umbelliferae) esp. alexanders, Smyrnium olusatrum; (later) spec. Athamanta macedonica, which has somewhat parsley-like leaves; cf. earlier parsley of Macedonia n. at parsley n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > seseli parsley of Macedonia1526 mountain siler?1550 water withy1559 seseli1578 Macedonian parsley1649 Marseilles hartwort1727 1649 N. Culpeper Physicall Directory 151 Take of Calaminth of the mountains, Penyroyal, Origanum, The seeds of Macedonian Parsly, common Smallage, Seseli, of each two drachms. 1699 G. Harvey Vanities Philos. & Physick xi. 120 All Carminative Seeds, viz. Parsley, Fennil, Cummin, Anis, Dill, Carui, Daucus, Cardamom, Marsh-Parsley,..Macedonian Parsley, [etc.]. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 257 To make Celery, and Macedonian Parsly grow very fast. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Apium The Macedonian Parsley is a Stranger in our Country, and not to be found except in curious Botanick Gardens. 1747 Philos. Trans. 1746 (Royal Soc.) 44 230 Two Persons, who had eaten these roots, mistaking them for Macedonian Parsley. 1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. II Petroselinum Macedonicum, Apium petræum or Petrapium, Macedonian parsley. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 102/2 Macedonian Parsley, Athamanta macedonica. 2000 R. F. Langley Coll. Poems 59 It's Macedonian parsley and also, he says, the surface of fresh snow is more like fur. Macedonian phalanx n. [compare classical Latin Macedonum phalanx , lit. ‘phalanx of Macedonians’, ancient Greek ἡ Μακεδονικὴ ϕάλαγξ ; in quot. 1585 translating Middle French phalange Macedonique] Ancient History the characteristic formation of the Macedonian army, consisting of infantry armed with long two-handed pikes and marshalled sixteen-deep in close formation (introduced by Philip II, king of Macedonia 395–36 b.c., as an improvement on the earlier Greek hoplite infantry). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > compact formation > specific Macedonian phalanx1585 box formation1932 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. iii. f. 73 The Macedonian Phalangue with the which Alexander the great extended his domination and monarchy almoste vpon all the regions of the earth. 1745 J. Swift To Dr. Sheridan 31 Thy words together ty'd in small hanks, Close as the Macedonian phalanx. 1989 R. L. O'Connell Of Arms & Men iv. 61 Designed around a basic building block, or syntagma, of 256 men, lined 16 across and 16 deep, the Macedonian phalanx was not only uniformly thicker but projected a good deal farther ahead than its Greek counterparts. Macedonian question n. ancient or modern Macedonia as a political issue. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction of or areas under specific authorities > [noun] Macedonian question1872 1872 A. W. Ward tr. E. Curtius Hist. Greece V. vii. iii. 272 He [sc. Demosthenes] took the Macedonian question itself in hand, and made his first Philippic oration proper. 1886 Littell's Living Age 6 Nov. 348/2 It is this Macedonian question on which hinge Russia's promises not to interfere in Bulgaria so long as internal order is maintained. 1971 S. E. Palmer & R. R. King (title) Yugoslav communism and the Macedonian question. 1996 Jrnl. Mod. Greek Stud. 14 253 I should point out that most of the scholarship surrounding the Macedonian Question is strongly partisan, with opposing sides attempting to prove the righteousness of their own beliefs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Macedoniann.²adj.² Brit. /ˌmasᵻˈdəʊnɪən/, U.S. /ˌmæsəˈdoʊniən/ Forms: late Middle English Macedonyan, late Middle English Macedonyen, 1500s– Macedonian. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Macedonianus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin Macedonianus < Byzantine Greek Μακεδονιανός < Μακεδόνιος Macedonius + -ανος -an suffix. Compare Middle French, French macédonien (1541). Church History. A. n.² A follower of the Pneumatomachian doctrine attributed to Macedonius, a bishop of Constantinople in the 4th cent. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Macedonianism > [noun] > person Macedonianc1449 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 499 (MED) The sect of Macedonyanys..helden that the Holi Goost was not God. 1559 N. Heath Speech 30 Jan. in W. Cobbett Parl. Hist. (1806) I. 645 Damase, then bishop of Rome.., did give sentence against the heretics, Macedonians, Sabellians and Eunomians. 1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 18 Arians, Eunomians, Macedonians, and such other heretikes. 1645 T. Vane Lost Sheepe 33 Now how sutable this doctrine is to the peace and tranquility of Common-Wealths,..though it bee to Arrianisme, to the heresy of the Macedonians, [etc.]. 1701 tr. J. Le Clerc Lives Primitive Fathers 252 He [sc. Gregory] disputes about the Consubstantiality of the Holy Spirit, against the Macedonians. 1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 1578 They are Macedonians, esteeming the Holy Spirit as no person, but only an influence or emanation. 1896 G. P. Fisher Hist. Christian Doctrine i. ii. iii. 145 When Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople, pronounced the Holy Ghost to be a creature subordinate to the Son, his opinion was generally considered heretical, and his followers, the Macedonians, were given the nickname of ‘Pneumatomachians’. 1915 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VIII. 225/2 The leading doctrine of the Macedonians is found in the thesis characterized by their opponents as ‘Pneumatomachian’. 1996 M. Wiles Archetypal Heresy ii. 43 Homoousians, Homoiousians, and Macedonians are all included in this blanket condemnation. B. adj.² Of or relating to Macedonians or their beliefs. ΚΠ 1585 T. Rogers Eng. Creede: 1st Pt. (new ed.) 4 These were the Arian and Macedonian heretiques, who were called Pneumatomachoie, because they warred against the holie Ghost. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Semi-Arians A new branch of Macedonian Semi-arians, or Pneumatomachi. 1910 New Schaff-Herzog Encycl. Relig. Knowl. VII. 111/2 (heading) The development of the ‘Macedonian’ sect..began in Alexandria. 1963 P. W. Harkins Baptismal Instructions 210 For the Macedonian heresy, cf. G. Bardy, ‘Macédonius et les Macédoniens’. 1993 16th Cent. Jrnl. 24 797 (note) The Donatist, Eumonian and Macedonian heresies flourish during a schism. Derivatives ˈMaceˌdonianism n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Macedonianism > [noun] Macedonianism1642 1642 J. Hales Tract conc. Schisme 9 Manichanisme, Valentinianisme, Macedonianisme, Mahometisme, are truley and properly Heresies. 1646 J. Maxwell Burden of Issachar 21 The grossest Heresies, Arianisme, Arminianisme, Macedonianisme [etc.]. 1855 M. J. Spalding Miscellanea i. 28 During this period the Church saw Arianism, Macedonianism, Nestorianism, Eutychianism, Pelagianism, and Monothelitism, rise in succession. 1993 16th Cent. Jrnl. 24 797 (note) Councils deal with Pelagianism..and Macedonianism. 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