AGRARIAN

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to am equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment. Burke.

2.
a.

Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.

3.
n.

One in favor of an equal division of landed property.

4.
n.

An agrarian law. [R.] An equal agrarian is perpetual law. Harrington.


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