Definition of "Tartarian"

Tartarian¹

noun
plural Tartarians
1. (now rare) A Tartar.
2. (now rare) The language of the Tartars; Tatar.
  Quotations
  Two, or Three Honest Men […] should be Skilfull in Far-Forreyn-Languages: As, in the Sclauonian, or Moschouite, the Arabik Vulgar, the Turkish, the Tartarien, the Chiny Language, the Canadien, and the Islandish, &c.
  1577, John Dee, Perfect Arte of Navigation
3. (dated) Any of various varieties of cherry. The Black Tartarian is a sweet cherry from Russia; the White Tartarian is a French variety of the early 1800s.
adjective
comparative more Tartarian, superlative most Tartarian
1. Of or relating to Tartary or the Tartars; Tartaric.
  Quotations
  Then hauing paſt Armenian deſerts now,And pitcht our tents vnder the Georgean hills,Whoſe tops are couered with Tartarian theeues,That lie in ambuſh, waiting for a pray:What ſhould we doe but bid them battel ſtraight,And rid the world of thoſe deteſted troopes?
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act II, scene ii

Tartarian²

adjective
comparative more Tartarian, superlative most Tartarian
1. Pertaining to Tartarus; hellish, infernal.
  Quotations
  (Sulphur Bottom).—Another retiring gentleman, with a brimstone belly, doubtless got by scraping along the Tartarian tiles in some of his profounder divings.
  1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 32, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, page 153