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Philistine

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast region of southern Palestine.

2. A bailiff. [Cant, Eng.] [Obs.] Swift.

3. A person deficient in liberal culture and refinement; one without appreciation of the nobler aspirations and sentiments of humanity; one whose scope is limited to selfish and material interests. [Recent] M. Arnold.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Of or pertaining to the Philistines.

2. Uncultured; commonplace.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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