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adjective

Ethnical, Ethnic adj.

Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.

Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; opposed to Jewish and Christian.

Of or pertaining to a group having a distinct racial, cultural, religious or linguistic character; as, ethnic differences within a population can cause civil war.

Being a member of a distinct racial or cultural minority within a larger population; as, ethnic Chinese own most of the businesses in Indonesia.

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Etymology of 'Ethnical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ethnical" Quotes from Famous Books

... at this remote period, to estimate the influence which geographical conditions and ethnical relations exerted in determining the course of philosophic thought in these schools. Unquestionably those conditions contributed somewhat towards fixing their individuality. At the same time, it must be granted that the distinction in these two ...

— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker

... them, yet they are entitled to their due recognition, and are not to be thrown aside as absolutely meaningless. By Homer, himself, they could not have been understood, being traces of a migration and ethnical kinship which had been in his time long forgotten, and which modern scholarship has resurrected through the comparative study ...

— Homer's Odyssey - A Commentary • Denton J. Snider

... one of growth and transformation, both from within and by the accretion of outside elements. In France and Spain the inheritance of Latin blood is small; but the Roman culture which was forced on those countries has been tenaciously retained by them, throughout all their subsequent ethnical and political changes, as the basis on which their civilizations have been built. Moreover, the permanent spreading of Roman influence was not limited to Europe. It has extended to and over half of that New World which was not even dreamed ...

— African and European Addresses • Theodore Roosevelt

... observe that the frontiers of European dominion in Asia are the battleground upon which the forces of archaic and modern societies meet in arms for decisive conflict. In the ancient world the contest was only ethnical and political; the rude tribes were coerced into amalgamation with an expanding State, far superior in power and usually more humane. 'The nations of the empire[40] insensibly melted away into the Roman name and people.' But the ...

— Studies in Literature and History • Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall

... difficult, at this remote period, to estimate the influence which geographical conditions and ethnical relations exerted in determining the course of philosophic thought in these schools. Unquestionably those conditions contributed somewhat towards fixing their individuality. At the same time, it must be granted that the distinction in these two schools ...

— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker

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