See Also: adamite(medicine)
Adamite(dictionary)
pre-adamite(dictionary)

gonfalonier (iou) and pre-adamite (iou)


gonfalonier (iou)



gonfalonier noun. L16.
[French (Old French gonfanonier): see GONFALON, -IER.]
A standard-bearer; spec. (a) the Pope's standard-bearer; (b) Hist. any of various officials or magistrates in the Italian city-states.
gonfaloniership noun the office of a gonfalonier E18.

pre-adamite (iou)



pre-adamite noun & adjective. M17.
[from PRE- 2 + ADAM noun + -ITE1.]
A. noun.
A person of a race formerly believed to have existed before the time of Adam. M17.
A believer in the existence of men before Adam. obsolete exc. Hist. E18.
b. adjective. Belonging to a race or to the time previous to Adam; prehuman. L17.
pre-ada'mitic adjective = PRE-ADAMITE adjective E18.
pre-adamitism noun the doctrine of the existence of pre-adamite man L18.