Central Asiatic

English Adjective Central Asiatic en Central Asian. en The Races of Men: A Fragment w:Robert Knox 1850 Philadelphia Lea & Blanchard Appendix “Section I.—Origin, Civilization, Extinction of the Dark Races of Men” 302 The Central Asiatic race, the Mongol, the Tartar, when pure, revelled in tents and arms; plunder and the pomp of war was their whole aim. en Travels in Central Asia; Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand. Performed in the Year 1863. Arminius Vámbéry 1865 New York Harper & Brothers Chapter XXII. 472 The principal sets of Central Asiatic manufactures are Bokhara, Karshi, Yenghi Ürgendj, Khokand, and Namengan. en Quṣayr ʿAmra: Art and the Unmayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria w:Garth Fowden 2004 w:University of California Press 0520236653 109, 300 Ṭāq-i Bustān lies just east of Kirmānshāh, a town in western Irān on the so-called High Road that led from Mesopotamia through the central Zagros Mountains to Khurāsān, the crucially important Central Asiatic frontier of Arab conquest. Noun Central Asiatic en Central Asian. en The Gentleman’s Magazine Sylvanus Urban XIV 1840 August London William Pickering; John Bowyer Nichols and Son Slade’s Travels in Germany and Russia w:Adolphus Slade 130–131 Will the Central Asiatics avail themselves of the communications opened for them in Europe? Will they accept, through the agency of Russia, the products of civilization, which we have neglected to convey to them, by the Indus and their own streams? en Travels in Central Asia; Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand. Performed in the Year 1863. Arminius Vámbéry 1865 New York Harper & Brothers Chapter X. 210 My friend was obliged positively to force me to enter a booth, and, after the precious shivin (a kind of tea) was poured out, wishing to profit by the ecstatic feeling in which he found me, he asked me, chucklingly, “Now, then, what do you say to Bokhara Sherif (the noble)?” “It pleases me much,” I replied; and the Central Asiatic, although from Khokand, and an alien enemy, as his nation was at that moment at war with Bokhara, was nevertheless delighted to find that the capital of Turkestan had made such a conquest of me, and gave me his word that he would show me its finest features in the course of the following days. en Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.; w:Patrick Cheney; Andrew Hadfield 2006 w:Oxford University Press 0195153863 42 By describing him as a “Scythian shepherd,” Marlowe seizes the idea of the near contemporary Mongolians in the relatively unracialized image of the classical Scythians (who were neither Central Asiatics nor “shepherds,” though they were nomads). en Demonyms