Sinaean

comparative more Sinaean · superlative most Sinaean

1. archaicSynonym of Chinese.First known use 1639

   An undersettled Soviet Union welcomes the rise of a 600-million Sinaean power increasing some two per cent per year.

   1958 November, Joseph J. Spengler, “Malthus Again”, in Challenge, volume 7, number 2, page 12

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   ...so that I cannot but wonder that Matthaeus Riccius a Iesuite, in his Sinaean expedition should take so much paines to prove, that the Kingdome of Cathaia, and of the Sinaeans is all one.

   1639, John Chilmead, translating Robert Hues as A Learned Treatise of Globes..., p. 139

   Synonyms: Chinese

2. archaicSynonym of East Asian or Chinese-like.First known use 1763

   The nations belonging to the Sinæan branch... have not the features of the Yellow Race so well defined as those belonging to the Mongolian branch.

   1893, Guillaume Louis Figuier, translated by Robert Wilson, The Human Race, page 292

   Synonyms: East Asian or Chinese-like

plural Sinaeans

1. archaicrareSynonym of Chinese.

   ...so that I cannot but wonder that Matthaeus Riccius a Iesuite, in his Sinaean expedition should take so much paines to prove, that the Kingdome of Cathaia, and of the Sinaeans is all one.

   1639, John Chilmead, translating Robert Hues as A Learned Treatise of Globes..., p. 139

   Synonyms: Chinese

plural Sinaeans

1. archaicrareSynonym of Chinese.

   ...so that I cannot but wonder that Matthaeus Riccius a Iesuite, in his Sinaean expedition should take so much paines to prove, that the Kingdome of Cathaia, and of the Sinaeans is all one.

   1639, John Chilmead, translating Robert Hues as A Learned Treatise of Globes..., p. 139

   Synonyms: Chinese