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gentilitial, a.|dʒɛntɪˈlɪʃəl|
Also 7 gentilitiall, (-icial).
[f. L. gentīlīti-us, incorrectly gentīlīcius (f. gentīlis gentile) + -al1.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or peculiar to, a nation; national.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 84 This figure of the Nose is now become gentilitial and native to the Persians. 1741Warburton Div. Legat. (1845) II. 433 The first [relation of God to the Hebrew nation] was that of a tutelary Deity, gentilitial and local. 1877Rawlinson Orig. Nat. ii. v. 218 Pathros, the local name, from which the gentilitial noun ‘Pathrusim’ is formed.
2. Of or pertaining to a gens or family; family. (Cf. family 9 c.)
1611Coryat Crudities 493 The Casimires, for that is the gentilitiall name of the Count Palatines family. 1660Waterhouse Arms & Arm. 49 Though I say there be no distinct proof for Ensigns personal and gentilicial among them. 1828J. Hunter Hist. S. Yorksh. I. 32 Writers upon gentilitial insignia. 1838Blackw. Mag. XLIV. 403 Their Gentilitial names, such as the Gens Horatia, Julia [etc.].
3. Of or pertaining to gentle birth; belonging to the gentry. [Perh. strictly another word, f. med.L. gentilitia = ]
1816Sir E. Brydges Life J. Hall in Hall's Poems, John Hall was born of gentilitial parents in Durham. 1837Sir F. Palgrave Merch. & Friar iv. (1844) 153 The inherent, indelible dignity of a gentilitial aristocracy. 1866E. Peacock Eng. Ch. Furniture App. xi. 240 He was sprung from an old gentilitial stock. a1875R. Davies Walks through York (1880) 133 One of the most antient and distinguished of our Yorkshire gentilitial families. |