champian
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Variant form of champaign.
Noun
[edit]champian (plural champians)
- Synonym of champaign
Adjective
[edit]champian (not comparable)
- Synonym of champaign
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
- An hundred horeſmen of my companie
Scowting abroad vpon theſe champion plaines,
Haue view’d the army of the Scythians,
Which make report it far exceeds the Kings.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Him selfe out of the forest he did wynd, / And by good fortune the plaine champion wonne […].
- 1652, George Sandys, Sandys Travailes: containing a history of the Originall an ...[1], page 21:
- The countrey above, is champian and not barren,- but rarely inhabited.
- 1703, Daniel Whitby, A paraphrase and commentary on the New Testament[2]:
- The lower, which contained the Tribes of Zcbulon and Iffachar, because it was Champian, was called the Great Field
- 1715, Guy Miege, Present State of His Majesty's Dominions in Germany[3], page 558:
- The Couutry in general is Champian, and low, but sometimes rises into pleasant Hills
References
[edit]- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “champian”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.