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Japonian
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English
Etymology
From en Japon ian.adj. and n. 1 5776703771
Adjective
en obsolete en Japanese#Adjective of or relating to Japan.
Of the Islands of Iapon, and Their Religions 443 This appeared at Frenoiama, a famous Vniuerſitie of thoſe Bonzij, nine miles from Meaco, wherein eight hundred yeares paſt, a Iaponian King had erected three thouſand and eight hundred Temples, with houſes adioined for the Bonzij:
64 Induſtrious of the needle and the chart / They run full ſail to their Japponian Mart:
1738 Curious Relations: or, The Entertaining CorrespondentDigested into Familiar Letters; […] II London Printed [F]or G. Smith,in Prince’s-Street, Spittlefields; and sold by Thomas Cooper,at the Globe, in Pater-Noster-Row. 278 V † Japo·nian a. and sb. 1 553 2 After his death the Japonian Army withdrew from Coria.
Noun
en obsolete en Japanese#Noun a native or inhabitant of Japan.
2nd III 2 The Second Testimonie Containing the Huge Leuies and Preparations of Quabacondono,as Also His Warres and Conquests, and the Successe Thereof in the Kingdome of Coray. […] 857 [T]he ſayd gunnes beeing able to hurt but a ſmall diſtance off, and the Iaponians being furniſhed with bꝛazen oꝛdinance vnknowen vnto the Corayans, they pꝛeſently dꝛaue them from their walles,
en 1638 Francis Bacon William Rawley Length and Shortnesse of Life in Man. The Historie. History Naturall and Experimentall, of Life and Death. Or Of the Prolongation of Life.Written in Latine by the Right Honorable Francis Lo. Verulam, Vis-Count Sᵗ. Alban. London Printed by Iohn Haviland for William Lee, and Humphrey Mosley paragraph 25 141 https://books.google.com/books?id=f81lAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA141 32819960 And the Iaponians, are longer liv’d, than the Chineſes;
en 1679 [Charles Cotton] The Confinement. A Poem,with Annotations. Licensed. Roger L’Estrange. London Printed [F]or C. C. […] Printed by J. C. 32 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-confinement-_cotton-charles_1679/page/32/mode/1up 228726640 His Neighbours ſlight him, and there’s not a Man, / But looks as ſtrange, as a Japonian.
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