ETE'SIAN, adjective ete'zhan. [Latin etesius; Gr. a year.] Stated; blowing at stated times of the year; periodical. etesian winds are yearly or anniversary winds, answering to the monsoons of the East Indies. The wind is applied, in Greek and Roman writers, to the periodical winds in the Mediterranean, from whatever quarter they blow.
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