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Definition of Numidian
1. Noun. An inhabitant of ancient Numidia.
2. Adjective. Of or relating to ancient Numidia or its people or culture.
Definition of Numidian
1. a. Of or pertaining to ancient Numidia in Northern Africa.
Definition of Numidian
1. Adjective. of or pertaining to Numidia or its inhabitants ¹
2. Noun. an inhabitant of Numidia ¹
3. Proper noun. a variety of Berber spoken by the people of Numidia ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Numidian
1.
Of or pertaining to ancient Numidia in Northern Africa. Numidian crane.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Numidian
Literary usage of Numidian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes on Northern Africa, the Sahara and Soudan: In Relation to the by William Brown Hodgson (1844)
"It is a bi-partite inscription, in Phoenician and numidian characters. Thomas d'Arcos
first made a copy of it, in 1631. The Ethnological Society of New-York ..."
2. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"THE numidian CRANE [Grus Virgo, Cuv.]. This bird is larger in the body than our
common ... The trachea as it passes down the neck 1 [In two of the numidian ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"... numidian must alike seek redress, against a Roman plaintiff or defendant, at
the praetorian or proconsular tribunal. In all less important matters the ..."
4. The History of Rome by Thomas Arnold (1868)
"... OF SYRACUSE- ARCHIMEDES—SACK OF SYRACUSE, AND REDUCTION OF SICILY—MUTINES,
THE numidian, IN SICILY.—AUC 538 TO 543. When wars ought to be , , , -, 7 . ..."
5. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts, Novatianus, Allan Menzies (1868)
"EPISTLE LIX.1 TO THE numidian BISHOPS, ON THE REDEMPTION OF THEIR BRETHREN FROM
CAPTIVITY AMONG THE BARBARIANS. ARGUMENT.—Cyprian begins by deploring the ..."
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