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Agrarian   Listen
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Agrarian  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. "His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment."
2.
(Bot.) Wild; said of plants growing in the fields.






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"Agrarian" Quotes from Famous Books



... Then Clayton gave some short account of the hero. He had first come across him in the neighbourhood of Foxford near Lough Conn, and had there run him very hard, as the Captain said, in reference to an agrarian murder. He knew, he said, that the man had received thirty shillings for killing an old man who had taken a farm from which a tenant had been evicted. But he had on that occasion been tried and acquitted. ...
— The Landleaguers • Anthony Trollope



Words linked to "Agrarian" :   farming



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