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Batavian


BATA'VIAN, adjective [from Batavi, the people who inhabited the isle.]

Pertaining to the isle of Betaw in Holland, between the Rhine and the Waal. But more generally, the word denotes what appertains to Holland in general.

BATA'VIAN, noun A native of Betaw, or of the Low Countries.