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Cambrian   /kˈæmbriən/   Listen
Cambrian

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language.  Synonym: Welsh.  "Welsh syntax"
noun
1.
From 544 million to about 500 million years ago; marine invertebrates.  Synonym: Cambrian period.
2.
A native or resident of Wales.  Synonyms: Cymry, Welsh, Welshman.



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... masters, by the accidents of war. When time and religion had mitigated the fierce spirit of the Anglo-Saxons, the laws encouraged the frequent practice of manumission; and their subjects, of Welsh or Cambrian extraction, assumed the respectable station of inferior freemen, possessed of lands, and entitled to the rights of civil society. [154] Such gentle treatment might secure the allegiance of a fierce people, ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 3 • Edward Gibbon

... hand around shall fling, Scenes that thy Muse hath never dar'd to sing. When sickness weigh'd thee down, and strength declin'd; When dread eternity absorb'd thy mind, Flow'd the predicting verse, by gloom o'erspread, That 'Cambrian mountains' thou should'st never tread, That 'time-worn cliff, and classic stream to see,' Was wealth's prerogative, despair for thee. Come to the proof; with us the breeze inhale, Renounce despair, and come to Severn's ...
— The Banks of Wye • Robert Bloomfield

... should have been due to secondary causes like those determining the birth and death of the individual. "When I view," he said, "all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled." And again: "As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV • John Lord

... darkening heath between, And villages embosomed soft in trees, And spiry town, by surging columns marked Of household smoke, your eye extensive roams. . . To where the broken landscape, by degrees Ascending, roughens into rigid hills, O'er which the Cambrian mountains, like far clouds, That skirt the ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers

... mixed mesozoic and palaeozoic types, in rocks of an epoch once supposed to be eminently poor in life; witness, lastly, the incessant disputes as to whether a given stratum shall be reckoned devonian or carboniferous, silurian or devonian, cambrian or silurian. ...
— The Origin of Species - From 'The Westminster Review', April 1860 • Thomas H. Huxley


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