a. and sb. [f. L. Lūsitānia (see below) + -AN.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to Lusitania; hence (chiefly poet.), of or pertaining to Portugal.
1720. Swift, Progr. Beauty, 48. Venus … Gave Women all their hearts could wish When first she taught them where to find White Lead and Lusitanian Dish.
1842. Tennyson, Will Waterproof, i. Go fetch a pint of port:… such whose father-grape grew fat On Lusitanian summers.
1902. Edin. Rev., July, 88. Later geographers … confounded Odusseia in the Sierra Nevada with the Lusitanian Olysippo.
B. sb. An inhabitant of Lusitania, an ancient province of Hispania, almost identical with modern Portugal; hence, a Portuguese.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 97. A certain Lusitanian, whom he took in an Island of Portugal.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 46. Some English Merchants ships (then too much abused, by the bragging Lusitanian…) helped them.
1709. J. Clarke, trans. Grotius’ Chr. Relig., II. xviii. (1711), 128, note. See … Freita concerning the Empire of the Lusitanians in Asia.
1886. Sheldon, trans. Flaubert’s Salammbô, 7. A Lusitanian, of gigantic height.
