Meaning of adive | Babel Free

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The golden jackal; a smaller sort of jackal, sometimes domesticated.

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“We are uncertain whether these two names denote animals of different species. We only know⟳, that the jackal is larger, fiercer, and more difficult to tame than the adive;† but that, in every other article, the resemblance is perfect. Hence the adive may be only the jackal rendered smaller, feebler, and more gentle than the wild race⟳, by being tamed and kept in a domestic state; for the adive is to the jackal nearly what the lap-dog, or small-water-dog, is to the shepherd's dog.”

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