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adjective

Cambrian adj.

(Geog.) Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales.

(Geol.) Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology.

noun

Cambrian n.

A native of Cambria or Wales.

(Geol.) The Cambrian formation.

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... circle itself forming the fourth; this being evidently the place where the Druids who presided had their station; or where the more sacred and important part of the rites and ceremonies (whatever they may have been) were performed. All this is as perfect at this day as when the Cambrian bards, according to the custom of their ancient order, described by my old acquaintances, the living members of the Chair of Glamorgan, met ...

— Colloquies on Society • Robert Southey

... have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual. When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness ...

— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various

... long article on St. David in the "Cambrian Plutarch." The author goes into the question of the family relations between King Arthur and St. David with great thoroughness, but what conclusion he comes to is not quite evident. He thinks that the people are wrong who say that St. David was a nephew, because ...

— Humanly Speaking • Samuel McChord Crothers

... and hunted by their conquerors among the Cambrian hills, but clinging to their independent faith, or even when paralyzed into spiritual apathy under tribute to a foreign church, the heavenly song still murmured in a few true hearts amidst the vain and vicious lays of carnal mirth. It survived ...

— The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth

... Teuton-Scandinavian race swept over their ancient land, the Anglo-Saxon, the Danish, and the Norman: against them all the British Celts fought on. They fell back toward their country's western coasts, like the Irish of a later day; and within their Cambrian mountains they maintained their independence for ...

— Legends of the Saxon Saints • Aubrey de Vere

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