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Mercian
Mercian
English
Alternative forms
- Mertian (obsolete)
Noun
Mercian (plural Mercians)
- (historical) A native or inhabitant of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:
- And comming forth shall spred his banner brave / Over the troubled South, that it shall make / The warlike Mertians for feare to quake [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:
- The dialect of Old English spoken in Mercia.
Adjective
Mercian (not comparable)
- Of, from or relating to Mercia.
Translations
of, from or relating to Mercia
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