Meanings
- obsoleteObsolete form of Kyiv.
Before this time the Coſacks were only a wild and barbarous ſort of Rabble, who were gathered out of the Poliſh Ruſſia, and having ſettled themſelves in the Iſland of the River Boryſthenes beneath Kiow, lived upon Robbing and Plunder.
1706, Samuel Puffendorf, translated by [Jodocus Crull], An Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe, 6th edition, London: Tho. Newborough and Dan. Midwinter, page 359
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