Lusitan

plural Lusitans

1. A native or inhabitant of Lusitania; a Portuguese.

   But after the main foreign interpolers were expulsed, the Lusitans were more active in establishing forts, missions, and trading posts in the Amazon and its main affluents.

   1985, Brazilian Amazon Development, page 162

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   The king alſo our grandfather (when he had by his letters complained of that iniurie to the king of Portingale, and had not much profited) gaue foorth letters of marque, that is, he gaue authoritie to Iohn & Robert Barton, brothers & heires to that Iohn, which was maiſter of that ſhip ſo caried away, to recouer ſo much of the Luſitans.

   1586, The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles, page 293

   The next that ſits to her, is Lady Iane Princeſſe of Portugall and of Caſtille The Infant, and from whom fortune had tane The crowne and ſcepter by her turning wheele; And vnto whom death was ſo inhumane, That in her ſelfe great wonder ſhe doth feele, To ſee how ſoone ſhe did ſtretch forth her hands On her, that was the light of Luſitans.

   1598, Diana of George of Montemayor, page 95

   The Pernambucans and Lusitans brought a Lusitan here together with 17 heathen men and women; however, in the year 1612, they were taken by the French to the Maranhão Island after having been baptised.

   1998, Brasil Holandês, page 150

   Synonyms: Lusitanian

comparative more Lusitan · superlative most Lusitan

1. Of, from or relating to Lusitania; Portuguese.

   [...] a “Lusitan Commonwealth”-type of solution, that may grant far-reaching autonomy to its “member-states” but no full independence.

   1999, Portugal 1974: A Non-Violent Revolution, page 224

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   [...] all which was done in the ſight of the reſt of the Luſitan ſhips, which at the ſame time did also looſe out of that hauen to paſſe into Portingale.

   1586, The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles, page 293

   [...] a Lusitan re-elaboration perhaps, of ancient Byzantine influence dating certainly from the centuries-long Arab occupation of the Spanish peninsula.

   1985, Domus, page 192

   [...] a Lusitan empire, glorious and magnificent in the times bygone, but was now in decadence shaken by the autonomy of the local Kingdoms and ruined by the invasion of European powers”.

   1997, A Missiological Conflict Between Padroado and Propaganda in the East, page 39

   The subject is inspired by the legend of Osmia, a Lusitan woman who was raped by a soldier during the Roman invasion of the Iberian Peninsula.

   2018, A New History of Iberian Feminisms, page 77

   Synonyms: Lusitanic, Lusitanian