[Ads-l] Antedating of "Racial"

[Shapiro, Fred]

racial (OED 1854)

1853 The Empire (Sydney, Australia) 6 Aug. 2602/5 (Newspapers.com)

I was willing to suppose that Nature might append some such idiosyncratic evidence to high habitudes of refinement.  At all events I knew that, as a racial attribute, it indicated the contrary of mechanical employments.

Fred Shapiro

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