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<hw>Eth"narch*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/.]</ety> <def>The dominion of an ethnarch; principality and rule.</def>

<i>Wright.</i>

<h1>Ethnic, Ethnical</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw><hw>Eth"nic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Eth"nic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>ethnicus</ets>, Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ nation, <?/ <?/ the nations, heathens, gentiles: cf. F. <ets>ethnique</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; -- opposed to <i>Jewish</i> and <i>Christian</i>.</def>

<h1>Ethnic</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eth"nic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>n.</tt> <def>A heathen; a pagan.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>No better reported than impure <b>ethnic</b> and lay dogs. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Ethnically</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eth"nic*al*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an ethnical manner.</def>

<h1>Ethnicism</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eth"ni*cism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>n.</tt> <def>Heathenism; paganism; idolatry.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Taint of ethnicism</i>."

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Ethnographer</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eth*nog"ra*pher</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who investigates ethnography.</def>

<h1>Ethnographic, Ethnographical</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw><hw>Eth`no*graph"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Eth`no*graph"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw>. <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>ethnographique</ets>.]</ety> <def>pertaining to ethnography.</def>

<h1>Ethnographically</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eth`no*graph"ic*al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an ethnographical manner.</def>

<h1>Ethnography</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eth*nog"ra*phy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ nation + <ets>-graphy</ets>: cf. F. <ets>ethnographie</ets>.]</ety> <def>That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See <er>Ethnology</er>.</def>

<h1>Ethnologic, Ethnological</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw><hw>Eth`no*log"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Eth`no*log"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to ethnology.</def>

<h1>Ethnologically</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eth`no*log"ic*al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an ethnological manner; by ethnological classification; <as>as, one belonging <ex>ethnologically</ex> to an African race</as>.</def>

<h1>Ethnologist</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eth*nol"o*gist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One versed in ethnology; a student of ethnology.</def>

<h1>Ethnology</h1> <Xpage=513>

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