Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to ethnology.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to ethnology.
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- adjective
Ethnological .
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- adjective of or relating to ethnology
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Examples
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He would have been also brought to face the ethnologic problem of a continent inhabited by a single race, not Anglo-Saxon, nor Teutonic, nor yet Latin, but a composite race in which all these will be merged and blended; a new American race which, springing from a broader surface, shall rise to higher summits of intellectual power and, with a greater variety of natural qualities, achieve excellence in more numerous ways.
Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII John Austin Stevens
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This sum does not include the amount appropriated for ethnologic researches -- $40,000.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 Various
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The knife and fork are used, the latter to go into the mouth, the former not, and here you see a singular ethnologic feature.
As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous
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What conclusions of ethnologic import may be drawn from this cannot here be more than suggested, but the latter fact seems to bear upon the association of the
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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Two partly excavated rooms were seen at this ruin, the work of some earlier visitors who hoped to discover ethnologic or other treasure.
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I recalled the fact to his mind that the northwestern Eskimos and the Indians were essentially Asiatic in type; and it is true that he had never heard of the ethnologic map at his National Museum, which shows the location of Chinese junks blown to American shores within a period of three hundred years.
As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous
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That they have played an important ethnologic rôle can not be doubted; and although to-day they are so scattered and so modified by surrounding people as largely to have disappeared as a pure type, yet they have everywhere left their imprint on the peoples who have absorbed them.
Negritos of Zambales William Allan Reed
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It might be well to insert, at this point, a condensation of the Welsh legend, though affecting, especially, the Zuni, a pueblo-dwelling tribe, living to the eastward of the Hopi and with little ethnologic connection.
Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert James H. McClintock
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The weaving of ethnologic Britain would take more skill to unravel than the most learned can now attain to; it is a weft of many strands, strangely inter-knitted, and its result is infinite variety of personality.
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Walpi had partly cleared out one of these chambers and used it as a depository for ceremonial plume-sticks, etc., but the Navajo came and carried off their sacred deposits, tempted probably by their market value as ethnologic specimens.
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