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Mede   Listen
proper noun
Mede  n.  A native or inhabitant of Media in Asia. "according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not"






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Mede" Quotes from Famous Books



... there were various reasons, not only of pride, but of policy (for in youth he had conspired against the majesty of Rome), which induced him to conceal his true name and rank. But neither by the name he had borrowed from the Mede, nor by that which in the colleges of Egypt would have attested his origin from kings, did the cultivators of magic acknowledge the potent master. He received from their homage a more mystic appellation, and was long remembered in Magna Graecia and the Eastern plain by ...
— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

... am a Mede and a Persian combined. Byo, why don't you give Mr. Rollo some cream with his peaches, and ...
— Wych Hazel • Susan and Anna Warner

... floures in the mede Than love I most these floures white and rede Soch that men callen Daisies in our town, To hem I have so great affection, As I sayd erst, when comen is the Maie. That in my bedde there daweth me no daie, That ...
— Language of Flowers • Kate Greenaway

... breadth its equal, till they reach at length The shore of ocean upon either hand. From all these regions tribes unnumbered flock To Juba's standard: Moors of swarthy hue As though from Ind; Numidian nomads there And Nasamon's needy hordes; and those whose darts Equal the flying arrows of the Mede: Dark Garamantians leave their fervid home; And those whose coursers unrestrained by bit Or saddle, yet obey the rider's hand Which wields the guiding switch: the hunter, too, Who wanders forth, his home a fragile hut, And blinds ...
— Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars • Lucan



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