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adjective

Ethnical, Ethnic adj.

1.

Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.

2.

Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; opposed to Jewish and Christian.

3.

Of or pertaining to a group having a distinct racial, cultural, religious or linguistic character; as, ethnic differences within a population can cause civil war.

4.

Being a member of a distinct racial or cultural minority within a larger population; as, ethnic Chinese own most of the businesses in Indonesia.

noun

Ethnic n.

1.

A heathen; a pagan. (Obs.) "No better reported than impure ethnic and lay dogs."

2.

A member of an ethnic group.

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Etymology of 'Ethnic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ethnic" Quotes from Famous Books

... proceeded from the same creative mind, according to one creative plan. Christianity should regard these humanely, as its fellow-creatures. The other animals prepared man's way on the earth, and since man's arrival we have seen no subsequent creation. So the ethnic religions prepared the way for Christianity, and since Christianity came no new religion has appeared; for Mohammedanism is only a melange drawn from the Old and New Testaments, and may therefore be considered ...

— Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors • James Freeman Clarke

... the supreme qualities that go to the making of a great world-poet. With all his cosmopolitanism he was a German of the Germans. For them his work has a meaning and an importance which it cannot have for others, because he is the organ-voice of their ethnic instincts and idealisms. Think of a sentiment that Germans love, and you shall find it, if you search, expressed in sonorous verse in some poem or play of Schiller. The schools and the theaters keep his name steadily before the great public, while the intellectual classes, as Gervinus ...

— The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller • Calvin Thomas

... deer is a moot question, but it is a habit of the brute. For so many hundreds of years have we been at it, that we can hardly be expected to reform immediately. Undoubtedly, it is a sign of undeveloped ethnic consciousness. We are depraved animals. I must admit that there are quite a number of things men do that mark them as far below the angels, but in a way I am glad of it. The thrill and glow of nature is strong within us. The great ...

— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope

... that made vast sections of her area lawless beyond precedent, so that it was possible for whole districts to be impassable, while civil war raged between street and street, and for Alsatias to exist in her midst in which the official police never set foot. She was an ethnic whirlpool. The flags of all nations flew in her harbour, and at the climax, the yearly coming and going overseas numbered together upwards of two million human beings. To Europe she was America, to America she was the gateway of the world. But ...

— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells

... and Sidon. This is not the proper place to discuss such a question, but, whatever view we may take of it, it seems that the researches of Assyriologists have led to the following conclusion: That primitive Chaldaea received and retained various ethnic elements upon its fertile soil; that those elements in time became fused together, and that, even in the beginning, the diversities that distinguished them one from another were less marked than a literal acceptance of the tenth chapter of Genesis ...

— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot

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