Hanseatic, a.
(hænsiːˈætɪk)
Also 7 anse-, ansiatike, hansiatick, -tique.
[ad. med.L. hanseāticus, f. MHG. hanse: see Hanse.]
Of or pertaining to the German Hanse.
| 1614 Selden Titles Hon. Pref. C iij, The Hansiatique Societie, beginning about CIɔ.CC. of Christ some while before Frederique the second. 1662 J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 27 'Tis numbred among the Hanseatick Towns. 1665 Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 265 Deventer, formerly a free City of the Anseatike League. 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. II. 275 The Hanseatic association, commonly called the Hanse towns. 1861 M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 44 The free towns of Lübeck, Bremen, and Hamburg as heirs of the corporate estate of the Hanseatic League, became possessed of the Steelyard. |
b. as n. A member of the Hanse.
| 1787 A. Anderson Hist. Comm. I. 502 Any city of the Hanseatics. |