Sabellian

American  

[suh-bel-ee-uhn] / səˈbɛl i ən /

noun

1. a member of a group of early Italian peoples including the Samnites and Sabines.

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Sabellian British  

/ səˈbɛlɪən /

noun

1. an extinct language or group of languages of ancient Italy, surviving only in a few inscriptions belonging to the Osco-Umbrian group

2. a member of any of the ancient peoples speaking this language, including the Sabines

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adjective

1. of or relating to this language or its speakers

Etymology

Origin of Sabellian

1595–1605; < Latin Sabell ( us ) a member of any of the Oscan-speaking Italic ethnic groups + -ian

Example Sentences

Old Sabellian" of Picenum, "believed to be the oldest inscriptions on Italian soil.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

His Essay on the Trinity, first printed in 1903, was long supposed to have been withheld from publication because of its containing Arian or Sabellian tendencies.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various

At one time it possessed the district afterwards known as Etruria, as well as the Sabellian and Umbrian territories.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas

The word had a Sabellian history, and was used by Marcellus in a Sabellian sense, so that it was justly discredited as Sabellian.

From The Arian Controversy by Gwatkin, Henry Melvill

Marsi, a part of the Sabellian race, noted for Magic, and said to have been descended from Circê.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham