Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being a group of Franks who settled along the Rhine, near Cologne, in the fourth century AD.
- noun A Ripuarian Frank.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or dwelling near a shore.
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- proper noun A
West Germanic dialect group spoken in theRhineland (westernGermany ), easternBelgium and southernDutch Limburg , from northwest ofDüsseldorf andCologne toAachen in the west andWaldbröl in the east. - proper noun Historically, the plural (Ripuarians) denotes the Ripuarian tribal section of the
Frank people (comprising several tribes), who after some migration inhabited this region, as opposed notably to theSalian branch. - adjective Of or pertaining to the Ripuarian people or (one of) its members or descendants.
- adjective Of or pertaining to one, all, or any of the Ripuarian
dialects . - adjective Of or pertaining to a Ripuarian speaker or speakers.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sigebert, the Ripuarian, defeated an Alamannic invasion at Tolbiac (496) with Salian support.
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According to the Salic and Ripuarian law this would be one order of succession [332]:
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Franks were divided into the Ripuarian and Salian Franks; the former settled on both sides of the middle and lower Rhine, the latter advanced from the Scheldt to the Somme.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Their sovereigns, both Salian and Ripuarian, belonged to the Merovingian family and seem to have been descended from Clodion.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Gallo-Roman lived according to the code, the barbarian according to the Salian or Ripuarian law; in other words, the law was personal, not territorial.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Ripuarian Franks the original lands of the House of Lorraine, Alsace, and a part of Burgundy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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The Ripuarian law condemned the female delinquent to slavery; but the woman had the alternative of killing her base-born husband.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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The later law of the Ripuarian Franks treats it more distinctly from the former point of view.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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Ripuarian Franks, settled, the latter in the east of Belgica, on the banks of the Moselle and the Rhine; the former toward the west, between the Meuse, the ocean, and the Somme.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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He began with the most powerful of the tribes, the Ripuarian Franks.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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