Lexicographical Neighbors of Ascians
Literary usage of Ascians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wisconsin Journal of Education by Wisconsin Teachers' Association, Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction (1883)
""ascians: Persons living in the torrid zone who at some season of the year east
no shadow at noon. ..."
2. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"... (in the singular also caryatid); the geographical terms ascii (also ascians
with the singular ..."
3. A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome: With Notices of the So Called "Amazons by Richard Francis Burton (1864)
"The next day was a half Har- mattan, which made the natives don warm wrappers,
lose appetite, and shun the bath. "We, un-ascians, delighted in the cold ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by John Oswald, Joseph Thomas, James Lynd, John Miller Keagy (1868)
"Ascii, ascians, those persons, who, at certain times of the year, have no shadows
at noon. Such are the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, at times, ..."
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