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Definition of Micmac
1. Noun. A member of the Algonquian people inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
2. Noun. The Algonquian language of the Micmac.
Definition of Micmac
1. Noun. (alternative form of Mi'kmaq) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Micmac
Literary usage of Micmac
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Acadian Geology: The Geological Structure, Organic Remains, and Mineral by John William Dawson (1868)
"(A.)—Micmac LANGUAGE AND SUPERSTITIONS. I REFERRED in Chapter IV. to the fact
that, in the judgment of my friend Mr Hand, there are strong points of ..."
2. A History of Nova-Scotia, Or Acadie by Beamish Murdoch (1865)
"Register books of Port Royal—of baptisms, marriages and funerals. 1700-1718.
And many other ancient mss. Micmac NAMES OF PLACES, SUPPLIED BY DR. A. GESNER. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The Micmac number about four thousand ; they are much attached to their religion
and language, and show no signs of decay. But, as has been said, ..."
4. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1835)
"JL HE ensuing vocabulary I transcribed viva voce from Gabriel, a young Mountaineer
Indian (servant to Louis, a Micmac, in the Bay of St. George, ..."
5. Proceedings by International Congress of Americanists (1907)
"Although the Micmac grade of intelligence is apparently somewhat lower than that
of the other members of the same family, for example, ..."
6. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1885)
"THE Micmac DICTIONARY.—There is some prospect that the Micmac Dictionary, which
has been the result of forty years of labor by the Rev. ..."