Ascian — As cian, n. One of the Ascii. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
áscian — wv/t2 to ask, inquire, seek for, demand; call, summon; examine, observe; geáscian learn by inquiry, discover, hear of; 2 announce … Old to modern English dictionary
Ascian language — The The word Ascian >Ascian Language is a fictional language invented by Gene Wolfe for his fantasy series The Book of the New Sun .Gene Wolfe: The Book of the New Sun, Volume 4 (The Citadel of the Autarch), ISBN 1 85798 700 4] The language is… … Wikipedia
ascian — noun a) person or thing without a shadow b) person or thing found close to the Equator … Wiktionary
ascian — n. member of the Ascii (people who live in the tropics where for a few days out of the year the sun stands directly overhead at noon and therefore casts no shadows) … English contemporary dictionary
ascian — as·ci·an … English syllables
ascian — A person who has no shadow … Grandiloquent dictionary
ascian — n. inhabitant of torrid zone … Dictionary of difficult words
Sapir–Whorf hypothesis — In linguistics, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (SWH) (also known as the linguistic relativity hypothesis ) postulates a systematic relationship between the grammatical categories of the language a person speaks and how that person both understands… … Wikipedia
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