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equestrian, a. and n.|ɪˈkwɛstrɪən|
[f. L. equestri-s belonging to a horseman (f. eques horseman, f. equ-us horse) + -an.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to horse-riding. Also of persons: Skilled in horse-riding.
1656–81Blount Glossogr., Equestrian, pertaining to a Horse-man, Knight, or Gentleman, or to an Horse. 1711Steele Spect. No. 104 ⁋1, I should be glad if a certain Equestrian Order of Ladies..would take this Subject into their serious Consideration. 1741Middleton Cicero (1742) I. iv. 273 The Equestrian races of the Circus. 1758Johnson Idler No. 6 ⁋4 Future candidates for equestrian glory. 1838Lytton Alice ii. vi. 81 Evelyn's inexperience in equestrian matters. 1866Edgar Runnymede (1870) 80 Their mettled palfreys, and their equestrian grace.
2. Mounted on a horse. Also of a portrait or statue: Representing a person on horseback.
1711Addison Spect. No. 59 ⁋4 The Antique Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius. 1711–14Spectator (J.), An equestrian lady appeared upon the plains. 1791Cowper Odyss. iii. 22 Advance at once to the equestrian chief. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge x, To sit for an equestrian portrait.
3. Rom. Ant. Of or pertaining to the order of Equites or Knights.
1696Kennett Rom. Antiq. ii. iii. i. 97 One that had Four hundred [sestertia] might be taken into the Equestrian Order. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. III. 241 Whatever might be the numbers, of equestrian, or plebeian rank, who perished in the massacre of Rome. 1879Froude Cæsar viii. 78 Cicero challenged his opponents..to find a single instance in which an Equestrian Court could be found to have given a corrupt verdict.
transf.1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. 1808 VI. 237 A middle sort of men; a sort of equestrian order.
b. Hist. Of or pertaining to the ‘knightly order’ in the states of the Holy Roman Empire.
1684Scanderbeg Rediv. iv. 64 Next day the Equestrian Order went to the House of Senators. 1711Lond. Gaz. No. 4930/1 The Deputies of the Equestrian Order, were to meet there. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. III. 617 The bishop, chapter and equestrian order, or nobles (Ritterschaft).
B. n.
a. One who rides on horseback.
b. One who publicly performs on horseback.
1791‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsem. v. (1809) 87 Many of his Majesty's faithful subjects, whose occupations oblige them daily to figure as equestrians. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xiii, He stopped..internally wishing no good to the panting equestrian. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg., Spectre Tappington (1882) 336 Mr. Peters..indifferent as an equestrian, had acquired some fame as a whip. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Fate Wks. (Bohn) II. 328 As the equestrians in the circus throw themselves nimbly from horse to horse. 1873H. Spencer Study Sociol. x. 243 The tracts for equestrians having been from time to time increased.
Hence † equestriˈana ? nonce-wd. [f. as if Lat.], a female equestrian. eˈquestriaˌnism, the art or practice of riding on horseback. eˈquestrianize v. intr., to act as an equestrian. eˈquestriaˌnizing vbl. n.
1825C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 197 See Mrs. M. a superb equestriana. 1872Globe 5 Aug., Dislike of equestrianism. 1881Morning Post 29 Sept. 5/4 Schule Reiterei..or riding school equestrianism. 1887Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 28 Nov. 2/1 Senator—and his daughters equestrianize about Washington daily. 1886Blackie in Cassell's Fam. Mag. Feb. 151 This habit of bracing equestrianising. |