Outlandish (Hastings' Dictionary)

Neh 13% ‘Even him did out- landish women cause to sin’ (π΄; OW37, LXX αἱ γυναῖκες al ἀλλότριαι). The Heb. word is usually tr ‘stranger’ (i.e. ‘foreigner’) in AV, and RV gives ‘strange women’ here. ‘Outlandish’ (from Anglo- Sax. utlendisc, an adj. fr. utland, foreign countries) is Coverdale’s word. Cf. Milton, Hist. Eng. v.

‘He had taken with him Alfrid his youngest son to be there inaugurated King, and brought home with him an out landish Wife; for which they endeavoured to deprive him of his Kingdom’; and Bunyan, PP p. 84 (Clar. Press ed.), ‘The Pilgrims were cloathed with such kind of raiment as was diverse from the raiment of any that traded in that fair. The * Acc. to a very plausible, textual emendation, Ps 45138 (Heb. 14b) ghould read: mgaad nisayn De (so Krochmal, Graetz, Cheyne, Wellh.)

‘of pearls (set) in gold filigree (Cheyne. ‘in ouches of gold’) is her raiment.’ t ‘A silver shield with boss of gold’ (Wordsworth). 1 The ἀσείδισχαι of 1 Mac 457 are best taken in the same technical sense, as ornamental ‘rosettes’ or ‘bosses,’ rather than literally as ‘small shields.’ OUTRAGE OWL 637 people therefore of the fair made a great gazing upon them. Some said they were Fools, some they were Bedlams, and some they are Outlandish-men.’ J. HASTINGS.