ETHNICS

Noun

ethnics

plural of ethnic

Anagrams

• Tinches, nichest, nitches, sthenic

Source: Wiktionary


ETHNIC

Eth"nic, Eth"nic*al, a. Etym: [L. ethnicus, Gr. ethnique.]

1. Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.

2. Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; -- opposed to Jewish and Christian.

Eth"nic n.

Definition: A heathen; a pagan. [Obs.] No better reported than impure ethnic and lay dogs. Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ACRIMONIOUS

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Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be ā€œsatanic.ā€ However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.

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