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English Dictionary: agrarian by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
agrarian
adj
  1. relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities"
    Synonym(s): agrarian, agricultural, farming(a)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Agrarian \A*gra"ri*an\, a. [L. agrarius, fr. ager field.]
      1. Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp.,
            relating to an 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. (Bot.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Agrarian \A*gra"ri*an\, n.
      1. One in favor of an equal division of landed property.
  
      2. An agrarian law. [R.]
  
                     An equal agrarian is perpetual law.   --Harrington.
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