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Mæcenas|miːˈsiːnæs|
Pl. Mæcenases, † Mæcenates |-eɪtiːz|. Also 6–7 Mecenas, 6– erron. Mecænas.
The name of a Roman knight, the friend of Augustus and the patron of Horace and Virgil. Hence used for: A generous patron of literature or art; † occas. gen. a patron.
c1561Veron Free-will 7 This my rude labor, whiche..I offer unto youre honoure, as unto the Mecenas and patron of all godlye learninge. 1590Spenser F.Q. Verses addr. to Noblemen, This lowly Muse,..Flies for like aide unto your Patronage, That are the great Mecænas of this age. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. iii. 179 The composers of musick who otherwise would follow the depth of their skill,..are compelled for lacke of mæcenates to put on another humor. 1611Coryat Crudities Ep. Ded., My illustrious Mecænas Sir Edward Philips Master of the Rolles. c1620T. Robinson Mary Magdalene Ded. 105 Yet some Mœcenases this age hath left vs. 1663Gerbier Counsel b viij b, A Mecenas to all vertues. 1711Shaftesbury Charact. (1737) I. 216 The Muses.., with or without their Mæcenas's, will grow in credit and esteem. 1779Sheridan Critic i. i, Are you not called..a mock Mæcenas to second-hand Authors? 1812L. Hunt in Examiner 14 Dec. 787/2 This Mecænas of the Age. 1827Lytton Pelham xlvi, See what it is to furnish a house differently from other people; one becomes a bel esprit, and a Mæcænas, immediately. 1875Escott in Belgravia XXV. 80 The Mæcenas of the last century did influence literature and art; the Mæcenas of to-day cannot.
Hence Mæˈcenas v. trans., to act as a patron to. Mæˈcenasship, the position of a Mæcenas.
1832Carlyle Ess. (1872) IV. 101 Neither..was the new way of Bookseller Mecænasship worthless. 1837Marryat Olla Podr. xxx, Literary men are not Mæcenased by..the..aristocracy. |