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Webster 1913 Edition

rop.

Adj.

[L.

Phrygius

, Gr.

Φρύγιος

, fr.

Φρυγία

Phrygia, a country of Asia Minor.]

Of or pertaining to Phrygia, or to its inhabitants.

Phrygian mode

(Mus.)

one of the ancient Greek modes, very bold and vehement in style; – so called because fabled to have been invented by the Phrygian

Marsyas

Moore (Encyc. of Music).

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Phrygian stone

a light, spongy stone, resembling a pumice, – used by the ancients in dyeing, and said to be drying and astringent.

rop.

Noun.

A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.

(Eccl. Hist.)

A Montanist.

Adj.

[from Phrygia, in Asia Minor.] Pertaining to Phrygia; an epithet applied to a sprightly animating kind of music.

Phrygian stone, a stone described by the ancients,used in dyeing; a light spungy stone resembling a pumice, said to be drying and stringent.