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grandee|grænˈdiː|
Forms: 6–7 grande, 7 grandie, -dy, 7– grandee.
[a. Sp., Pg. grande great (person): see grand a.]
A Spanish or Portuguese nobleman of the highest rank.
1598Parsons Ward-Word to Hasting's Watch-Word viii. 116 One of his Grandes in Spayne. 1610B. Jonson Alch. iii. iii, Dol. What is he, Generall? Fac. An Adalantado, A Grande, girle. 1631Dekker Match me in Lond. i. Wks. 1873 IV. 143 The Dons and Grandi'es. 1638Ford Lady's Trial i. ii. (1639) C 2 b, Under a pretence of being Grandee of Spain, and cousin to twelve Princes. 1705Lond. Gaz. No. 4161/3 To exasperate the Spanish Grandees. 1814Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1838) XII. 34 They raised me to the dignity of a Grandee of Spain of the first class. 1833Longfellow Outre-Mer Prose Wks. 1886 I. 141 A muleteer bestrides his beast of burden with the air of a grandee.
b. transf. and gen. A person of high rank or position, or of eminence in any line.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xvi. §3. 59 The cutting off and keeping low of the Nobilitie and Grandes. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. to Rdr. (1651) 35 In a great person..a right honorable Grandy, tis not a venial sin. 1648–9C. Walker Relat. & Observ. 1 The said Leading men or Grandees (for that is now Parliament language) First divided themselves into two factions. a1661B. Holyday Persius (1673) 339 Tertullian..a Grande in learning. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 435 The Pope and Cardinals and other Grandees of that Church. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 582 He was offer'd by one of the Grandees of the H. of Commons to keep all that he had. 1726Amherst Terræ Fil. xiii. 62 Their footmen, who are the next grandees of the university. 1776Adam Smith W.N. i. xi. (1869) I. 216 The retinue of a grandee in China or Hindostan. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Goethe Wks. (Bohn) I. 393 These grandees of European scientific history. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 134 This commercial grandee, who in wealth, and in the influence which attends wealth vied with the greatest nobles of his time. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola ii. vi, Quite a typical Florentine grandee.
appositive.1652Benlowes Theoph. x. iii. 179 No grandee patron court I.
†c. fig. applied to things.
1621Laud Serm. 24 Mar. (1622) 37 Three Grandies are met together; Blessing, Ioy, and Hope. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. iv. 194 The Planet Mars..hath been reckoned one of the Grandees in Aetherial Regions. 1827H. Heugh Jrnl. in Macgill Life (1852) x. 292 Ben Nevis..the monarch among the mountain grandees of Scotland.
Hence granˈdeeism nonce-wd.
1850S. G. Osborne Gleanings 238 Landed grandeeism is all very well in its way. 1885Spectator 13 June 775 Mr. Bartley's justification of himself is from end to end an attack on ‘grandeeism’. |