Abyssine

See also: abyssine

English

Adjective

Abyssine (not comparable)

1. Rare form of Abyssinian. [since the mid 17th century]
   • 1781, C. Bathurst, The Modern Part of an Universal History From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, volume 12, page 264:

     This grand ceremony was immediately followed by a proclamation expreſsly forbidding the Abyſſine clergy, monks, and prieſts, to perform any prieſtly functions till they were previouſly examined and approved by the patriarch ; there being ſome reaſon to doubt whether they had been lawfully examined.

References

• The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford University Press, 2003