sb. and a. Also Tshekh. [Boh. Čech, Pol. Czech.] The native name of the Bohemian people; Bohemian. Hence Czechian, Czechic, Czechish adjs.
1841. Prichard, Phys. Hist. Mankind (ed. 3), III. 416. The Moravians are nearly akin to the Tschechi or Bohemians.
1850. R. G. Latham, Varieties of Man, ">Varieties of Man, 539. Native name.—Tshekh (Czech). Ibid. (1852), Ethnol. Europe, 241. Both populations are Tshekh, speaking the Tshekh language.
1866. Engel, Nat. Mus., vii. 265. The national dances of the Czechs.
1883. Nation, XXXVI. 546/1. To reunite all the fragments of ‘the crown of St. Wenceslas’—Bohemia, Moravia, and Austrian Silesia—into one Czechic realm.
1884. Brit. & For. Evang. Rev., Oct., 618. Church historians both German and Czechish.
