Dated Of or pertaining to Ethiopia or its inhabitants; Ethiopian.
Our men are frightened of these Abyssinian women.2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 335:
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Of or pertaining to the Abyssinian Church.
This king [Fasilides] immediately restored the Abyssinian doctrines, and hunted out the Jesuit missionaries.1922, H[erbert] Weld Blundell, “Appendix G. Christianity in Abyssinia.”, in The Royal Chronicle of Abyssinia, 1769–1840, with Translation and Notes, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: At the University Press, →OCLC, page 519:
The Abyssinian rite has fourteen different eucharistic prayers for use on different liturgical days; […]1945 August, Gregory Dix, “Variable Prayers in the Eastern Rites”, in The Shape of the Liturgy, 2nd edition, Westminster: Dacre Press, →OCLC, chapter XIV (Variable Prayers at the Eucharist), page 530:
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Among the documents, according to the chronicler [João de] Barros, was information brought to Lisbon by an Abyssinian priest, one Lucas Marcos, in 1490.1952, Henry H[ersch] Hart, “The Ships’ Companies”, in Sea Road to the Indies: An Account of the Voyages and Exploits of the Portuguese Navigators, Together with the Life and Times of Dom Vasco da Gama, Capitão-Mór, Viceroy of India and Count of Vidigueira, London; Edinburgh; Glasgow: William Hodge and Company, Limited, →OCLC, page 111:
A group of Abyssinians are astride horses in brightly colored saddles at the top of the hill across the valley.2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 308: