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Batavian   Listen
adjective
Batavian  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe.
2.
Of or pertaining to Batavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion.
Batavian Republic, the name given to Holland by the French after its conquest in 1795.





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"Batavian" Quotes from Famous Books



... it was due to the obstinacy and pertinacity he had inherited from his forefathers. To which it may be added that not less equally have the nature of inheritance and the quality of atavism been exhibited in his extraordinary predilection for the miller's art. While those Batavian ancestors on the low shores of the Zuyder Zee devoted their energies to grinding grain, he has been not less assiduous than they in reducing the rocks of ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
... Australian of to-day who wishes to recall the feats of power with which his race should be credited in the shadowy dawn of its history, may go back to the half-mythical glories of Hengist and Horsa, perhaps to the deeds of Civilis the Batavian, or to those of the hero of the Teutoburger fight, but certainly to the wars neither of the Silurian chief Caractacus nor of his conqueror, the after-time ...
— The Winning of the West, Volume One - From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 • Theodore Roosevelt
... Batavian Republic during the last part of the year 1800. By R. Fell. 1801. 8vo.—This work gives an interesting picture of Holland and the Dutch at this period, besides historical and political details and observations on its ...
— Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson


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