Central Asiatic

comparative more Central Asiatic · superlative most Central Asiatic

1. Synonym of Central Asian.

   The principal sets of Central Asiatic manufactures are Bokhara, Karshi, Yenghi Ürgendj, Khokand, and Namengan.

   1865, Arminius Vámbéry, “Chapter XXII.”, in Travels in Central Asia; Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand. Performed in the Year 1863., New York: Harper & Brothers, page 472

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   The Central Asiatic race, the Mongol, the Tartar, when pure, revelled in tents and arms; plunder and the pomp of war was their whole aim.

   1850, Robert Knox, “Appendix”, in The Races of Men: A Fragment, Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, “Section I.—Origin, Civilization, Extinction of the Dark Races of Men”, page 302

   Ṭāq-i Bustān lies just east of Kirmānshāh, a town in western Irān on the so-called High Road that led from Mesopotamia through the central Zagros Mountains to Khurāsān, the crucially important Central Asiatic frontier of Arab conquest.

   2004, Garth Fowden, Quṣayr ʿAmra: Art and the Unmayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria, University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 109, 300

   Synonyms: Central Asian

plural Central Asiatics

1. Synonym of Central Asian.

   Will the Central Asiatics avail themselves of the communications opened for them in Europe? Will they accept, through the agency of Russia, the products of civilization, which we have neglected to convey to them, by the Indus and their own streams?

   1840 August, Adolphus Slade, “Slade’s Travels in Germany and Russia”, in Sylvanus Urban, editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume XIV, London: William Pickering; John Bowyer Nichols and Son, pages 130–131

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   My friend was obliged positively to force me to enter a booth, and, after the precious shivin (a kind of tea) was poured out, wishing to profit by the ecstatic feeling in which he found me, he asked me, chucklingly, “Now, then, what do you say to Bokhara Sherif (the noble)?” “It pleases me much,” I replied; and the Central Asiatic, although from Khokand, and an alien enemy, as his nation was at that moment at war with Bokhara, was nevertheless delighted to find that the capital of Turkestan had made such a conquest of me, and gave me his word that he would show me its finest features in the course of the following days.

   1865, Arminius Vámbéry, “Chapter X.”, in Travels in Central Asia; Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand. Performed in the Year 1863., New York: Harper & Brothers, page 210

   By describing him as a “Scythian shepherd,” Marlowe seizes the idea of the near contemporary Mongolians in the relatively unracialized image of the classical Scythians (who were neither Central Asiatics nor “shepherds,” though they were nomads).

   2006, Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, editors, Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 42

   Synonyms: Central Asian