Ephesian
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Ephesian (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to, Ephesus.
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of, from, or pertaining to Ephesus
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Ephesian (plural Ephesians)
- Someone from Ephesus.
- (obsolete) A jolly companion; a roisterer.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], line 16:
- It is thine host, thine / Ephesian, calls.