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Assyrian

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Assyrian
1. an inhabitant of ancient Assyria
2. a modern-day descendant of the ancient Assyrians
3. 
a. the language of the ancient Assyrians, belonging to the E Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family and regarded as a dialect of Akkadian
b. a dialect of Aramaic, spoken by modern Assyrians


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``Is he not Isaac of York, rich enough to redeem the captivity of the ten tribes of Israel, who were led into Assyrian bondage?
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
It may well be conceived, what an unsavory odor such a mass must exhale; worse than an Assyrian city in the plague, when the living are incompetent to bury the departed.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
"The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck" followed; also "The Assyrian Came Down," and other declama- tory gems.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
 
 
 
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