Median en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈmiːdɪən/
Etymology
Etymology tree English Media Middle English -n English -n English Median From Media + -n.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Relating to Media or Medes.
Lucullus seeing certaine Median men at armes, which were in the front of Tigranes Army, heavily and unweildily armed, as in an iron prison, apprehended thereby an opinion, that he might easily defeat them[…].
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
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(not-comparable, obsolete) Of laws, rules etc.: unchanging, invariable.
And if you venture to object to these Median laws, – as I am now doing, – you elicit a chorus of disapproval, and acquire some evil name.
1856, Richard F. Burton, First Footsteps in East Africa, Könemann, published 2000, page 50:‘This proceeding,’ interposed the president, ‘is by no means in accordance with the terms of the mulct or sentence, which is in its nature Median, and not to be altered or recalled.’
1835, Edgar Allan Poe, King Pest:
Forms
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Translations (11)
hy մեդական (relating to Media or Medes) · fi meedialainen (relating to Media or Medes) · hy մարական (relating to Media or Medes) · ru мидийский (relating to Media or Medes) · pl medyjski (relating to Media or Medes) · de medisch (relating to Media or Medes) · cy Medaidd (relating to Media or Medes) · ga Méideach (relating to Media or Medes) · da medisk (relating to Media or Medes) · ca mèdic (relating to Media or Medes) · ca mede (relating to Media or Medes)