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Dorian, a. (n.)|ˈdɔərɪən|
[f. L. Dōri-us (a. Gr. Δώριος of Doris) + -an.]
Of Doris or Doria, a division of ancient Greece. Dorian mode, in Music, one of the ancient Grecian modes, characterized by simplicity and solemnity; also, the first of the ‘authentic’ ecclesiastical modes.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1021 (R.) Plato..chose the Dorian, as that which is most beseeming valiant, sober, and temperate men. 1667Milton P.L. i. 550 They move In perfect Phalanx to the Dorian mood Of Flutes and soft Recorders. 1774Burney Hist. Mus. (1789) I. iii. 53. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 309 No Roman structures rose to contrast with the severe simplicity of the Dorian shrines. 1846Keble Lyra Innoc. x. ix. 338 Some heart-thrilling chime, Some Dorian movement. 1867Macfarren Harmony i. 11 The Dorian is the first mode of the Ambrosian category. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 74 His actions, in the true Dorian mode, correspond to his words.
B. n. A native or inhabitant of Doris; a member of one of the four great divisions of the ancient Hellenes or Greeks.
1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. iv. §14 The Dorians inhabiting probably where most of the Pelasgi had been. 1837Penny Cycl. IX. 89/2 The migration of the Dorians to the Peloponnese..is expressly stated to have occurred 80 years after the Trojan war, i.e. in 1104 b.c. |