phobian

plural phobians

1. One who is phobic or antagonistic towards something.

   The time has now come to sever this connection between Western mediaeval phobians and Islam completely.

   1997, The Concept - Volume 17, page 45

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   Some years ago when I concocted the word futurism (it was a Spring night in Paris), I should have balanced it with pasteurism, which process I now suggest as a sociological relief from mountebanks, utilitarians, egotistical snobs of progress, press phobians, news delirians and loquacious neurasthenics suffering from various forms of auto suggestion.

   1913, Metropolitan - Volume 38, page 34

   I am anguished to see the author, a votary of Hindutva restraining himself, advising Hindutva phobians to shed off their protest.

   2001, BJP Today - Volume 10, page 32

   The cynics and phobians are “a diverse collection of anti-federalist politicians and observers who believe that the 'Europe' project cannot help but be an anti-national, anti-democratic, conspiracy-without-a-centre of bureaucratic social democrats, whose goal, perhaps unwitting, is to turn Europe into a superstate controlled by a technocratic managerial elite."

   2008, Hans-Georg Ehrhart, Sabine Jaberg, Bernhard Rinke, Die Europäische Union im 21. Jahrhundert, →ISBN

1. Pertaining to Phobos.

   I understood (again from the brochures) that our little Phobian virus was extremely virulent.

   2006, Alex De Witt, The Phobian Project, →ISBN

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   If his stature in earthly measurement be taken as five feet ten inches, he would tower into the Phobian sky to a height over one and one-tenth miles.

   1892, Scientific American - Volume 67, page 112

   From the period of precession of the Phobian orbit the oblateness of Mars is computed to be about 1/192, which exceeds that of the Earth.

   1960, Krafft A. Ehricke, Space flight - Volume 1, page 216

   This produces the unusual (to Earthmen) situation that the Phobian "month" is shorter than the Martian "day."

   1972, Benjamin Franklin Howell, Earth and Universe, page 86

   Synonyms: Phobosian

plural Phobians

1. literatureAn inhabitant of Phobos.

   You know the answer already as to why the Phobians acquired the plague.

   2006, Alex De Witt, The Phobian Project, →ISBN

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   In walking he would raise the toes of his feet above the heads of the Phobians to a height of five hundred feet.

   1892, Scientific American - Volume 67, page 112

   After conferring amongst themselves, the majority of the representative suspected that the Phobians were about to announce plans for another annexation of some economically troubled world.

   2010, Lonnie Holman I, Ultimate Dichotomization, →ISBN, page 42

   Synonyms: Phobosian

plural Phobians

1. GhanaA member of Accra Hearts of Oak S.C., Ghana's premier football club.

   To mark the end of Relations Week a fun run over 8 km was held at the Phobians Athletics Club.

   1988, South African Panorama - Volume 33, page 50

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   The determination of the Porcupine Warriors to make amends is not far-fetched as they matched the Phobians squarely in two off-season matches.

   2001, Alex Akurgo, Camillus Abongo, May 9 at Accra Stadium: A Gripping Story of a Disaster that Turned Ordinary People Into Heroes

   The club's supporters (estimated to be in excess of 2 million) painted the whole of Ghana amber that night, their elation especially informed by the fact that apart from winning the first Champions League of the Millennium, the Phobians now stay firmly on the rail of bitter rivals Kotoko, who won the old-format Champions Cup twice and were losing finalists on five other occasions.

   2001, Africa Today - Volume 7, page 37