a. and sb. [f. med.L. Sorabi: see SORB2.] a. adj. Of or belonging to the Slavonic race formerly dominant in Saxony; Sorbian. b. sb. A Sorb; the Sorbian language.
1788. Gibbon, Decl. & F., lv. V. 544, note. Sclavonian captives, not of the Bohemian…, but of Sorabian race.
1851. J. Kennedy, Nat. Hist. Man, I. 39. The western stem of the Slavonians is composed of the Bohemians, the Poles, the Slovaks, and the Sorabians.
1862. Latham, Compar. Philol., 629. The Sorb, Serb, or Sorabian of Lusatia,… intermediate to the Bohemian and the Polish.
