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Abyssinia

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Ab·ys·sin·i·a  (b-sn-)
See Ethiopia.
Abys·sini·an adj. & n.
Abyssinia [ˌæbɪˈsɪnɪə]
n
(Placename) a former name for Ethiopia
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Noun1.Abyssinia - Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red SeaAbyssinia - Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia
Ethiopia, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Yaltopya
Rastafarian - (Ethiopia) adherents of an African religion that regards Ras Tafari as divine
Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, New Flower - the capital of Ethiopia and the country's largest city; located in central Ethiopia
Horn of Africa, Somali peninsula - a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia
Africa - the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
Lake Tana, Lake Tsana - a lake in northern Ethiopia; the largest lake in Ethiopia and the source of the Blue Nile
Ethiopian - a native or inhabitant of Ethiopia
Translations
Abyssinia [ˌæbɪˈsɪnɪə] N → Abisinia f
Abyssinia
n → Abessinien nt
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In his account of the mission, where his veracity is most to be suspected, he neither exaggerates overmuch the merits of the Jesuits, if we consider the partial regard paid by the Portuguese to their countrymen, by the Jesuits to their society, and by the Papists to their church, nor aggravates the vices of the Abyssins; but if the reader will not be satisfied with a Popish account of a Popish mission, he may have recourse to the history of the church of Abyssinia, written by Dr.
A Voyage to Abyssinia by Lobo, Father View in context
He considered whites inferior beings, creatures of a lower order, and assuring me that even the few white freemen of Abyssinia were never accorded anything approximating a position of social equality with the blacks.
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Koner, triumphantly demonstrated the feasibility of the journey, its chances of success, the nature of the obstacles existing, the immense advantages of the aerial mode of locomotion, and found fault with nothing but the selected point of departure, which it contended should be Massowah, a small port in Abyssinia, whence James Bruce, in 1768, started upon his explorations in search of the sources of the Nile.
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