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Definition of Isthmian
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or forming an isthmus.
Definition of Isthmian
1. a. Of or pertaining to an isthmus, especially to the Isthmus of Corinth, in Greece.
Definition of Isthmian
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to an isthmus, especially to the Isthmus of Corinth, in Greece. ¹
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Definition of Isthmian
1. a native of an isthmus [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Isthmian
Literary usage of Isthmian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1890)
"The scholiast acknowledges 8 isthmian Odes, and expressly remarks at the beginning
of the Fourth (iii. ..."
2. The Tribune Almanac and Political Register for by Horace Greeley (1910)
"1003. an isthmian Canal treaty with Colombia, drawn lo vest ... Under the terms
of this act the isthmian Canal commission was created and a temporary ..."
3. Archaeologia Graeca: Or, The Antiquities of Greece by John Potter, George Dunbar (1818)
"Of the isthmian Games. THE isthmian games were so called from the place where
they were celebrated, viz. the Corinthian isthmus, a neck of land by which ..."
4. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by United States Congress, Marion Mills Miller, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"... to protect by treaty private companies undertaking to construct an isthmian
canal, the treaty stipulations to secure also free and equal navigation ..."
5. A Congressional History of Railways in the United States to 1850 by Lewis Henry Haney (1908)
"In the first place, any isthmian railway was generally regarded even by adherents
as a ... In the second place, the close connection between these isthmian ..."
6. The Panama Canal by Frederic Jennings Haskin (1913)
"CHAPTER XVI PAST isthmian PROJECTS THE digging of an isthmian Canal was a dream
in the minds of many men in Europe and America from the day that Columbus ..."
7. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"THE SECOND isthmian ODE. This ode was written upon occasion of a victory ...
in the isthmian games; it is however addressed not to Xenocrates himself, ..."
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