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• sas'a-nid, n. one of the Sassanidæ, the dynasty which ruled Persia from 218 A.D. to 639.--adj. SASS[=A]'NIAN.

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

• See sassanian

1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
By Sir Augustus Henry