Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland, or to its inhabitants; characteristic of Ireland or the Irish; Irish.
  • noun A native or an inhabitant of Ireland; a member of the Irish race.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland; Irish.

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Examples

  • There are lately hibernian, and german societies, who do all in their power, to mitigate the severity of these laws, and render their countrymen, during their servitude, as comfortable as possible.

    Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic. William Priest

  • An hibernian musician, who, like myself, was present for the first time at this _concert_ of _antimusic_, exclaimed, "By Jasus but they stop out of tune to a _nicety!"

    Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic. William Priest

  • But the old, simpler order of things had suffered more wrenches than one in this acrid congressional campaign, and the warring factions could unite only on the hibernian proposition that union was impossible.

    The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

  • Some drivers are willing to pay for the hibernian car insurance a range of prices, it is about as useful as a click of you mouse.

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2010

  • Not even the eager hibernian imagination was prepared to adopt so robustly simple an interpretation as that of the TD who felt able to assert "without fear of contradiction" that "The main cause of that emigration, of all the poverty, and of anything else that is wrong politically, nationally and economically with the country is due to the partition of Ireland".

    Irish Blogs 2009

  • An officer who discovers a driver knows these definitions they will probably be the hibernian motor insurance to fill out.

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2009

  • Not even the eager hibernian imagination was prepared to adopt so robustly simple an interpretation as that of the TD who felt able to assert "without fear of contradiction" that "The main cause of that emigration, of all the poverty, and of anything else that is wrong politically, nationally and economically with the country is due to the partition of Ireland".

    Irish Blogs David McWilliams 2009

  • An officer who discovers a driver knows these definitions they will probably be the hibernian motor insurance to fill out.

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2009

  • I know several other gamers that never have burn in issues. hibernian: I bought the game 4 / 26 and immediately had problems.

    Comments for XBox Solution 2009

  • I know several other gamers that never have burn in issues. hibernian: I bought the game 4 / 26 and immediately had problems.

    Comments for XBox Solution 2009

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