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  • adjective From, or pertaining to, the Greek island of Rhodes or its people.
  • noun Someone from the island of Rhodes

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Examples

  • Painting is called the Rhodian Art, but I know not if on account of its having been first invented there or for the eminence of the painters which Rhodes produced; which was so great that an illustrious enemy refrained from burning the city, which he had in his power, out of respect to the genius of Protogenes one of its most celebrated artists.

    Zophiel A Poem Maria Gowen Brooks

  • A peristyle that has one such higher colonnade is called a Rhodian peristyle.

    The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

  • Poseidonius of Apamea, commonly called the Rhodian, because he taught in Rhodes, was a Stoic philosopher, a contemporary and friend of Cicero's, and the author of numerous works on natural science, among them.

    The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485

  • Poseidonius of Apamea, commonly called the Rhodian, because he taught in Rhodes, was a Stoic philosopher, a contemporary and friend of Cicero's, and the author of numerous works on natural science, among them.

    The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485

  • On mediaeval and later sites, various glazed fabrics of pottery are found, and occasionally examples of the glazed and painted jugs, plates, and tiles known to collectors as 'Rhodian' or 'Damascus' ware.

    How to Observe in Archaeology Various

  • Britannic Majesty's brig "Rhodian," in Montego Bay, commanded by

    The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

  • In “The Augustine Notebooks,” Carver mentions that the legendary statue to Apollo never straddled the Rhodian harbor entrance, although “postcards for sale in the marketplace depicted a gigantic cartoon colossus with boats coming and going between its legs.”

    Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

  • Democritus; one jester to flout at another, one fool to fleer at another: a great stentorian Democritus, as big as that Rhodian

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • He was the Rhodian, who some while back had been banished from Athens and from his native city by the Athenians, when sentence of death was passed upon him and his family.

    Hellenica 2007

  • The exception was that of Melanippus the Rhodian, who had advised the other captains not to stop at this point, and had then manned his own vessel and sailed off.

    Hellenica 2007

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