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eupatrid|juːˈpætrɪd, ˈjuːpətrɪd|
Pl. eupatrids; also (sense 1 a) in Lat. form eupatridæ.
[ad. Gr. εὐπατρίδ-ης person of noble ancestry f. εὐ- (see eu-) + πατήρ father.]
1. a. One of the hereditary aristocracy of Athens; a member of the first of the three orders in the early Athenian constitution. b. Hence (rarely) gen. One who is of noble descent, a ‘patrician’.
1836Thirlwall Greece II. 41 It [the Four Hundred] was a popular body, as compared with an assembly of the eupatrids. 1838F. A. Paley tr. Schömann's Assembl. Ath. 342 Clisthenes.. abolished the ancient division of tribes, as the most effectual means of reducing the power of the Eupatridæ. 1862F. Hall in Jrnl. As. Soc. Bengal 205 Amushyáyana, ‘son of somebody’, an hidalgo, a eupatrid. 1863Blackw. Mag. Sept. 290 The Greek Eupatrid or the Roman Patrician. 1864R. F. Burton Dahome I. 251 The big eupatrid is of somewhat offensive presence.
2. attrib. (quasi-adj.)
1833J. Kenrick in Philolog. Museum ii. 368 A proof of Athenian blood and citizenship, not of Ionian and eupatrid extraction. 1847Grote Greece ii. x. III. 107 This eupatrid oligarchy and severe legislation. 1866Felton Anc. & Mod. Gr. I. xi. 206 He [æschylus] belonged to a distinguished eupatrid family probably descended from Codrus. |