Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
Vandals (a Germanic tribe) - proper noun An
extinct East Germaniclanguage , probably closely related to theGothic language.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Pro-Germanic bias led Schönfeld to maintain, in disregard of all chronology, that the Moors took over Vandalic names.
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The same may be said of certain characteristics of the still more Vandalic war dance.
Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians Elias Johnson
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Vandalic had powerfully allured him, and so had Old Burgundian: he had had designs also upon Visigothic, and had finally chosen Lombard rather than the others because the material was not merely defective but also delightfully vague, affording a wide opportunity for genuine philological insight.
The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather
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Anthemius, as Emperor of the West, a man of the senate of great wealth and high birth, in order that he might assist him in the Vandalic war.
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War Procopius
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He has ceased to be an Extraordinarius, but his promotion was based on his ingenious researches in Vandalic.
The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather
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For he had the fortune to be advanced to the office of consul, and therefore was borne aloft by the captives, and as he was thus carried in his curule chair, he threw to the populace those very spoils of the Vandalic war.
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War Procopius
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If it would, improvement in English literature would soon be at an end, and we should be tamely conducted back to the Vandalic age.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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Emperor Justinian against the Vandals at the beginning of the Vandalic
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War Procopius
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In teaching grammar, as well as in other things, we ought to avoid extremes: -- we ought neither to pass superficially over an ellipsis necessary to the sense of a phrase, nor to put modern English to the blush, by adopting a mode of resolving sentences that would entirely change the character of our language, and carry the learner back to the Vandalic age.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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Persian War, two with the Vandalic, three with the Gothic; Book VIII concludes with a general survey of events down to A.D.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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