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Abyssinia

(ˌæbɪˈsɪnɪə)

(Placename) a former name for Ethiopia

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E•thi•o•pi•a

(ˌi θiˈoʊ pi ə)

n.

1. 1 Formerly, Abyssinia. a republic in E Africa: formerly a monarchy. 58,680,383; 424,724 sq. mi. (1,100,000 sq. km).Cap.: Addis Ababa.

2. Also called Abyssinia. an ancient kingdom in NE Africa, bordering on Egypt and the Red Sea.

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Abyssinia - Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia

Ethiopia, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Yaltopya

Rastafarian - (Ethiopia) adherents of an African religion that regards Ras Tafari as divine

Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, New Flower - the capital of Ethiopia and the country's largest city; located in central Ethiopia

Horn of Africa, Somali peninsula - a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia

Africa - the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean

Lake Tana, Lake Tsana - a lake in northern Ethiopia; the largest lake in Ethiopia and the source of the Blue Nile

Ethiopian - a native or inhabitant of Ethiopia

Translations

Abessinien

Abisinia

Abessinia

Абиссиния

Abyssinia

[ˌæbɪˈsɪnɪə] N → Abisinia f

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Abyssinia

n → Abessinien nt

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In his account of the mission, where his veracity is most to be suspected, he neither exaggerates overmuch the merits of the Jesuits, if we consider the partial regard paid by the Portuguese to their countrymen, by the Jesuits to their society, and by the Papists to their church, nor aggravates the vices of the Abyssins; but if the reader will not be satisfied with a Popish account of a Popish mission, he may have recourse to the history of the church of Abyssinia, written by Dr.

In the account of Abyssinia, and the continuation, the authors have been followed with more exactness, and as few passages appeared either insignificant or tedious, few have been either shortened or omitted.

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Koner, triumphantly demonstrated the feasibility of the journey, its chances of success, the nature of the obstacles existing, the immense advantages of the aerial mode of locomotion, and found fault with nothing but the selected point of departure, which it contended should be Massowah, a small port in Abyssinia, whence James Bruce, in 1768, started upon his explorations in search of the sources of the Nile.

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He was a colonel in the cavalry of Abyssinia, a country of which I do not remember ever hearing, but which Colonel Belik assured me is the oldest civilized country in the world.

He considered whites inferior beings, creatures of a lower order, and assuring me that even the few white freemen of Abyssinia were never accorded anything approximating a position of social equality with the blacks.

The Abyssinians themselves are a fine looking race of black men--tall, muscular, with fine teeth, and regular features, which incline distinctly toward Semitic mold--I refer to the full-blooded natives of Abyssinia. They are the patricians--the aristocracy.

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In a week he had finished Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.

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On the mountains of Abyssinia, several European forms and some few representatives of the peculiar flora of the Cape of Good Hope occur.

We see, however, a few southern vegetable forms on the mountains of Borneo and Abyssinia. I suspect that this preponderant migration from north to south is due to the greater extent of land in the north, and to the northern forms having existed in their own homes in greater numbers, and having consequently been advanced through natural selection and competition to a higher stage of perfection or dominating power, than the southern forms.

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Your lighter boxes of family papers went up-stairs into a Barmecide room, that always had a great dining-table in it and never had a dinner, and where, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty, the first letters written to you by your old love, or by your little children, were but newly released from the horror of being ogled through the windows, by the heads exposed on Temple Bar with an insensate brutality and ferocity worthy of Abyssinia or Ashantee.

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The Arts Centre at NYU Abu Dhabi will open its fifth season with a performance by Circus Abyssinia titled, Ethiopian Dreams in The Red Theatre on September 5 and September 6 at 8pm, and on September 7 at 2pm.