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Sabean   Listen
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Sabean  adj., n.  Same as Sabian.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sabean" Quotes from Famous Books



... Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell, ...
— Flowers and Flower-Gardens • David Lester Richardson

... the geographer, divided Arabia into three sections,—Arabia Petraea, after the city of Petra; Arabia Deserta, the interior; and Arabia Felix (Arabie Heureuse in French), which does not mean 'the happy land,' as generally translated. Milton says, 'Sabean odors from the spicy shores of Araby the blest.' The words meant the land lying to the right, or south of Mecca, the Oriental principal point of the compass being the east and not ...
— Asiatic Breezes - Students on The Wing • Oliver Optic



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