ethnic, ethnical, ethnicke, ethnique

& s. [Lat, ethnic us, from Gr. ethnikos =national; ethnos a nation; Fr. ethnique.] IMG:content-1162.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Pertaining to races; ethnological. "Without doubt all ethnic questions form an integral part of anthropological study."-Prof. Turner, in Brit. A oc. Rep. (1871), pt. ii., p. 145. *B. As subst.: A heathen, a pagan; one who is neither Jew or Christian. *ěth'-ni-çişm, *eth-ni-cis me, s. [Eng. ethnic; -ism.] Heathenism, paganism, idolatry.