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English
Proper noun
Palæstine
- Archaic spelling of Palestine.
- May, 1802 C.E., “A General Account of the Nature of the Talmud”, in The Orthodox Churchman’s Magazine, Volume II, J. Spragg (publisher), page #250:
- AFTER the capture of Jeruſalem and the deſtruction of the Temple, the Jews, though in exile, maintained many celebrated Academies both in Palæſtine and in Babylonia.
1829, Algernon Herbert, Nimrod, page 24:As we have seen that Hadrian was the mystic Nabuchodonosor, it seems to follow that the persecutions of Sennacherib were the ravages committed in Palæstine by Vespasian.
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French
Proper noun
Palæstine f
- Obsolete form of Palestine.
- 1784, Jacques Amyot, Œuvres de Plutarque, page #169:
- Entre austres choses , on y porta devant des escripteaux , où estoyent contenus les noms des nations dont il triumphoit , qui estoyent celles qui s’ensuivent , le royaulme de Pont, l’armenie , la Cappadoice , la Paphlagone , la Medie , la Colchide , les Hiberiens , les Albaniens , la Syrie , la Cilcie , la Mesopotamie , la Phœnicie , la Palæstine , la Judée , l’Arabie , les Coursaires et Escumeurs de mer deffaicts par tous les quartiers du monde , tant par mer que par terre :