ditionary
English edit
Noun edit
ditionary (plural ditionaries)
- (obsolete) A subject; a tributary.
- 1511, Richard Eden, Decades of the New World:
- he with his famelie, famylyers, and ditionaries, of desperate mynde fledde to the mountaynes
Adjective edit
ditionary (comparative more ditionary, superlative most ditionary)
- (obsolete) Under rule; subject; tributary.
- 1624, George Chapman, Juvenal's Fifth Satire:
- And now our markets their chief purveyance owe
To some remote and ditionary coast
References edit
“ditionary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.