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  † 1.  Of an ethnic nature or character; heathenish.

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1547.  Bp. Hooper, Declar. Christ, v. D iij. What … blasphemy of God, and Et[h]nycall Idolatrie is this.

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1577.  Northbrooke, Dicing (1843), 67. Ethnicall sportes and pastimes.

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1634.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 195. The Religion of the Peguans is Ethnicall, knowing many but false Gods.

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1702.  C. Mather, Magn. Chr., III. II. xx. (1852), 447. The custom of preaching at funerals may seem ethnical in its origin.

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  † b.  Pagan; = ETHNIC A. 1. Obs.

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a. 1638.  Mede, Wks., III. viii. 643. The Woman which escaped the fury of the Ethnical Dragon.

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1659.  W. Brough, Sacr. Princ., 548. Should not … Ethnical Rome be lesse Babylon then the Christian...?

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1762.  J. Brown, Poetry & Mus., xiii. (1763), 237. The Subjects of the narrative or Epic Ode may be drawn with Propriety either from ethnical or sacred Story.

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  2.  Of or pertaining to race or races, their origin, and characteristics. Cf. ETHNIC A. 2.

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1846.  Grote, Greece, II. i. II. 308. Purely upon geographical not upon ethnical considerations.

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1871.  Freeman, Hist. Ess., Ser. I. iii. 58. As far as ethnical connexion is concerned, this analogy will hold good.

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  3.  Pertaining to the science of races; = ETHNOLOGICAL 2.

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1862.  D. Wilson, Preh. Man, i. (1865), 4. Here then are materials full of promise for the ethnical student.

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1884.  Publisher & Bookbuyer’s Jrnl., 15 Nov., 11/2. The confused character of the prevailing ethnical literature dealing with the Sudan.

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