a. and sb. Also 8–9 Laponian. [ad. med.L. Lap(p)ōn-em (see LAPP) + -IAN.] A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Lapps, or their language. B. sb. A Lapp.

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1607.  Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 459. There was a Lapponian which brought one of these into Germany.

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1768.  Beattie, Minstr., I. lix. The chill Lapponian’s dreary land.

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1854.  Macaulay, in Trevelyan, Life (1876), II. 377. I amused myself with making out a Laponian New Testament by the help of a Norwegian Dictionary.

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  So Lapponic a. [cf. F. laponique.] = prec. A.

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1890.  in Webster.

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