Results for Sabaean

Definitions of Sabaean:

part of speech: adjective

Pert. to the Sabians or their worship.

part of speech: noun

A worshipper of the host of heaven; one of a early sect of Christians, called also Christians of St John.

Usage examples for Sabaean:

• Herself she speeds through the sky to Paphos, and joyfully revisits her habitation, where the temple and its hundred altars steam with Sabaean incense, and are fresh with fragrance of chaplets in her worship. "The Aeneid of Virgil", Virgil

• Looking thereon, Actian Apollo above drew his bow; with the terror of it all Egypt and India, every Arab and Sabaean turned back in flight. "The Aeneid of Virgil", Virgil

• Even Irene and Dick, less wrapped up in the dream of finding the Sabaean hoard, awaited von Kerber's next utterance with bated breath. "The Wheel O' Fortune", Louis Tracy