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cordelier|kɔːdəˈlɪə(r)|
Forms: 4–5 cordilere, 6 cordillere, -ylar, -elere, -eleir, 7 -ilier, 6– cordelier.
[a. F. cordelier, in OF. also cordeler, f. cordele (now cordelle), dim. of corde cord: see -ier. Cf. It. cordegliere, cordigliere, OF. cordelois, med.L. cordelita, cordiger.]
1. A Franciscan friar of the strict rule: so called from the knotted cord which they wear round the waist.
c1400Rom. Rose 7461 So been Augustins, and Cordileres, And Carmes, and eke sacked freres..Full holy men, as I hem deem. 1500–20Dunbar Tidings from Session 45 Baith Carmeleitis and Cordilleris Cumis thair to genner and get ma freiris. 1552Lyndesay Monarche 5685 With small nummer of Monkis and Freris, Off Carmeletis, and Cordeleris. 1663Butler Hud. i. i. 260 Of Rule as sullen and severe As that of rigid Cordeliere. c1720Prior Thief & Cordelier iv, A Norman, though late, was obliged to appear, And who to assist but a grave cordelier? 1827Macaulay Co. Clergyman's Trip to Camb. iv, An army of grim Cordeliers..Will follow, Lord Westmoreland fears.
2. pl. Name of one of the political clubs of the French Revolution (club des cordeliers), so called because it met in an old convent of the Cordeliers.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. i. iv, The whole Cordeliers District responds to it. Ibid. ii. i. v, One party, which thinks the Jacobins lukewarm, constitutes itself into Club of the Cordeliers; a hotter Club; it is Danton's element.
3. Name given to a machine for rope-making.
1878in Rossiter Illustr. Dict. Sc. Terms. |