Abyssine

See also: abyssine

English

Adjective

Abyssine (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of Abyssin
   • 1781, C. Bathurst, The Modern Part of an Universal History From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, volume 12, page 264:

     This grand ceremony was immediately followed by a proclamation expreſsly forbidding the Abyſſine clergy, monks, and prieſts, to perform any prieſtly functions till they were previouſly examined and approved by the patriarch ; there being ſome reaſon to doubt whether they had been lawfully examined.

References

• “Abyssine, variant of Abyssin, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.