Palæstine

A form of Palestine — A Philistine.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. archaicArchaic spelling of Palestine.

    AFTER the capture of Jeruſalem and the deſtruction of the Temple, the Jews, though in exile, maintained many celebrated Academies both in Palæſtine and in Babylonia.

    May, 1802 C.E., “A General Account of the Nature of the Talmud”, in The Orthodox Churchman’s Magazine, Volume II, J. Spragg (publisher), page #250
    1 more example

    As we have seen that Hadrian was the mystic Nabuchodonosor, it seems to follow that the persecutions of Sennacherib were the ravages committed in Palæstine by Vespasian.

    1829, Algernon Herbert, Nimrod, page 24
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