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Prester John

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Pres·ter John  (prstr)
n.
A legendary medieval Christian priest and king thought to have reigned over a Christian kingdom in the Far East or Ethiopia.
[Middle English prestre, priest, from Old French, from Late Latin presbyter; see presbyter.]
Prester John [ˈprɛstə]
n
(Myth & Legend / European Myth & Legend) a legendary Christian priest and king, believed in the Middle Ages to have ruled in the Far East, but identified in the 14th century with the king of Ethiopia
[C14 Prestre Johan, from Medieval Latin presbyter Iohannes Priest John]
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What mind, that is not wholly barbarous and uncultured, can find pleasure in reading of how a great tower full of knights sails away across the sea like a ship with a fair wind, and will be to-night in Lombardy and to-morrow morning in the land of Prester John of the Indies, or some other that Ptolemy never described nor Marco Polo saw?
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
Its tales of the Ethiopian Prester John, of diamonds that by proper care can be made to grow, of trees whose fruit is an odd sort of lambs, and a hundred other equally remarkable phenomena, are narrated with skilful verisimilitude and still strongly hold the reader's interest, even if they no longer command belief.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
I have it from my husband, who is a cinquantenier**, at the Parloir-aux Bourgeois, and who was this morning comparing the Flemish ambassadors with those of Prester John and the Emperor of Trebizond, who came from Mesopotamia to Paris, under the last king, and who wore rings in their ears.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
 
 
 
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