Arragonian
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]Arragonian (comparative more Arragonian, superlative most Arragonian)
- Archaic form of Aragonian.
- 1829 June 10 (date written), [Washington Irving], “[Legend of the Subjugation of Spain.]”, in Legends of the Conquest of Spain (The Crayon Miscellany; no. 3), Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, published 1835, →OCLC, page 219:
- The armies now took their several lines of march. That under Taric departed towards the northeast; beating up the country towards the source of the Tagus; traversing the chain of Iberian or Arragonian mountains, and pouring down into the plains and valleys watered by the Ebro.
Noun
[edit]Arragonian (plural Arragonians)
- Archaic form of Aragonian.
- a. 1798, Edmund Burke, “Thoughts on French Affairs”, in [Walker King and French Laurence], editors, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume VIII, London: […] [T. Gillet] for F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […]; sold also by J[ohn] Hatchard, […], published 1803, →OCLC, pages 39–40:
- The ſeveral kingdoms which compoſe Spain, have perhaps ſome features which run through the whole; but they are in many particulars as different as nations who go by different names; the Catalans, for inſtance, and the Arragonians too, in a great meaſure have the ſpirit of the Miquelets, and much more of republicaniſm than of an attachment to royalty.