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Eastern   /ˈistərn/   Listen
Eastern

adjective
1.
Lying toward or situated in the east.
2.
Of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States.
3.
Lying in or toward the east.  Synonym: easterly.  "Eastern cities"
4.
Relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world.  "The Eastern religions"
5.
From the east; used especially of winds.  Synonym: easterly.  "The winds are easterly"



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"Eastern" Quotes from Famous Books



... for the benefit of his creditors, and was afterward sold to them. These purchasers and others who became associated with them, unwilling to maintain a political union with other parties, bargained with Carteret for a division of the province. This was done in July, 1676, Carteret retaining the eastern part of the province, and the new purchasers holding the western part. From that time, until they were united and became a royal province in 1702, these divisions were known as East and West ...
— The Witch of Salem - or Credulity Run Mad • John R. Musick

... Along the eastern terrace a youth and maiden were pacing slowly. They had stolen forth unperceived from the revel, and, passing through a door standing invitingly open, had entered the garden. Though overjoyed in each other's presence, the solemn beauty of the night, so powerful in its contrast to ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth

... and employed the utmost vigilance of the writer and able assistants. Every few hours orderlies and special couriers were despatched to the headquarters of the camp, with such reports as could be obtained. We have read Eastern tales of travelers, when accident had discovered them in closest proximity to the deadly cobra de capello, the breathless horror with which they contemplated its motions, and saw it slowly coiling itself upon their limbs, or upon a table at their bedsides, and knowing that a single motion ...
— The Great North-Western Conspiracy In All Its Startling Details • I. Windslow Ayer

... body of the people, which must almost always be the case, they are likely to be soon corrupted by those very doctrines. The revolutions which the turbulence of the Greek clergy was continually occasioning at Constantinople, as long as the eastern empire subsisted; the convulsions which, during the course of several centuries, the turbulence of the Roman clergy was continually occasioning in every part of Europe, sufficiently demonstrate how precarious and insecure ...
— An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations • Adam Smith

... PERI, in the Eastern mythology a fairy being of surpassing beauty, begotten of fallen spirits, and excluded from Paradise, but represented as leading a life of pleasure and endowed with immortality; there were male Peris as well as female, and they were ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood


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