Mede definition

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A person born or living in Media.
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Any of a Western Iranian people who inhabited the ancient region of Media.
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A member of an Iranian people, closely related to the Persians, inhabiting ancient Media.
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Noun

Singular:
mede
Plural:
medes

Origin of mede

  • Ultimately from Greek Mēdos from Old Persian Māda

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin Medus, from Ancient Greek Μῆδος (Mēdos).

    From Wiktionary

Mede Sentence Examples

  • Thus the pseudo-Democritus, who was reputed the author of the Physica et Mystica, which itself concludes each of its receipts with a magical formula, was believed to have travelled in Chaldaea, and to have had as his master Ostanes l the Mede, a name mentioned several times in the Leiden papyrus, and often by early Christian writers such as Tertullian, St Cyprian and St Augustine.

  • Under this method might be classed the expositions of Luther, Osiander, Striegel, Flacius, Gerhard and Calovius; and English writers such as Napier, Mede and Newton.

  • In the latter Nineveh is destroyed by the Mede Arbaces and the Babylonian Belesys about 880 B.C., a period when thi Assyrians were just beginning to lay the foundations of their power.

  • There is not only no room in history for this Median king of the Book of Daniel, but it is also highly likely that the interpolation of "Darius the Mede" was caused by a confusion of history, due both to the destruction of the Assyrian capital Nineveh by the Medes, sixty-eight years before the capture of Babylon by Cyrus, and also to the fame of the later king, Darius Hystaspis, a view which was advanced as early in the history of biblical criticism as the days of the Benedictine monk, Marianus Scotus.

  • It is important to note in this connexion that Darius the Mede is represented as the son of Xerxes (Ahasuerus) and it is stated that he established 120 satrapies.

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