ditionary

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

ditionary (plural ditionaries)

  1. (obsolete) A subject; a tributary.
    • 1511, Richard Eden, Decades of the New World:
      he with his famelie, famylyers, and ditionaries, of desperate mynde fledde to the mountaynes

Adjective[edit]

ditionary (comparative more ditionary, superlative most ditionary)

  1. (obsolete) Under rule; subject; tributary.
    • 1624, George Chapman, Juvenal's Fifth Satire:
      And now our markets their chief purveyance owe
      To some remote and ditionary coast

References[edit]

“ditionary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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