单词 | coterie |
释义 | coterien.ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > club society1603 club1670 collegea1703 coterie1764 hui1898 1764 Univ. Museum Jan. 6 A numerous and formidable society of persons of distinction, property, abilities, and influence in the nation, is now forming, and a large house of a deceased nobleman is hired for their assemblies, which society is to be called The cotery of revolutionists, or of anti-ministerialists, from the French word coterie, vulgarly called a club in English. 1766 D. Barrington Observ. Statutes 249 (note) The word cotterie, of which so much has been said of late. a1777 S. Foote Cozeners (1778) i. 3 My expences in..subscription-money to most of the clubs, and coteries. 2. A circle of persons associated together and distinguished from ‘outsiders’, a ‘set’: a. A select or exclusive circle in Society; the select ‘set’ who have the entrée to some house, as ‘the Holland House coterie’.‘A friendly or fashionable association. It has of late years been considered as meaning a select party, or club, and sometimes of ladies only’ (Todd 1818). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > [noun] > social group > exclusive sect1608 circle1646 coterie1738 circuit1752 set1780 in-group1906 1738 Common Sense I. 345 Beware of Select Cotteries, where, without an Engagement, a Lady passes but for an odd Body. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 164 I was lifted directly into Madame de V***'s Coterie. 1779 F. Burney Let. 12 Oct. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 371 You recollect what Mrs. Thrale said of Him, among the rest of the Tunbridge Coterie last season. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV cix. 125 Fame is but a lottery, Drawn by the blue-coat misses of a coterie. 1828 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers (1884) I. xiii. 400 Lady Holland was saying yesterday to her assembled coterie. 1880 ‘V. Lee’ Stud. 18th Cent. Italy iii. i. 68 A man..belonging to the most brilliant coteries of the day. b. A ‘set’ associated by certain exclusive interests, pursuits, or aims; a clique. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > a coterie or clique junto1659 cabal1660 Cabbala1671 club1682 clique1711 galère1756 click1813 coterie1827 cenacle1889 magic circle1924 1827 T. De Quincey On Murder in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 202/2 Catiline, Clodius, and some of that coterie. 1830 A. Cunningham Lives Brit. Painters (ed. 2) I. v. 207 A certain coterie, of men, skilful in the mystery of good painting. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. vii. 550 Written for an exclusive coterie, not for the world. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xlvi. 278 In vain had Tiberius chafed under the bitter jeers of this independent coterie. 1888 W. D. Hamilton Cal. State Papers, Domest. Ser. 1644 Pref. 10 This religious element..revived the bitter animosities of the old political parties, and caused the members [of Parliament] to group themselves into coteries. c. A meeting or gathering of such a circle. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > types of morn-speechOE court1154 morrow-speech1183 conventicle1382 congregation1389 plenary session1483 journeyc1500 night school1529 assession1560 general meeting1565 family meeting1638 panegyris1647 desk1691 collegea1703 annual general meeting1725 mass meeting1733 panegyre1757 plenum1772 family council1797 coterie1805 Round Table1830 GA1844 indignation meeting1848 protest meeting1852 hui1858 primary1859 Quaker meeting1861 mothers' meeting1865 sit-down1868 town hall1912 jamboree1919 protest rally1921 con1940 face-to-face1960 morning prayers1961 struggle meeting1966 be-in1967 love-in1967 plenary1969 catch-up1972 rencontre1975 schmoozefest1976 1805 T. Moore To Lady H. iv Each night they held a coterie. 1849 E. E. Napier Excursions Southern Afr. II. 347 We are so accustomed now to this style of fusillade, that all we do is to lie close, and continue our little coteries. d. transferred and figurative. Of animals, plants, etc. ΚΠ 1869 P. Gillmore tr. G. L. Figuier Reptiles & Birds 219 With the permission of the masters of the coterie they build their nests in the vacancies that occur in the squares. 1885 H. O. Forbes Naturalist's Wanderings Eastern Archipel. 85 The genus Pajus is an exceedingly handsome and attractive coterie of orchids. Compounds General attributive, as coterie-speech. Also quasi-adj. ΚΠ 1833 J. S. Mill Lett. (1910) I. 77 A paper which..keeps aloof from all coterie influence. 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 May 3/1 A coterie-speech—not to say a jargon—current only on the highest heights of culture. 1900 G. B. Shaw Let. 9 Feb. in E. Terry & G. B. Shaw Corr. (1931) 375 This Stage Society..is catching on in its little coterie-theatre way. 1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage xiii. 165 Circulars designed to appeal to those who incline to coterie art and limited editions. 1962 Listener 30 Aug. 327/2 The very exercise will remove accretions of coterie language and provincialism from serious writers who attempt it. Derivatives ˈcoterie v. to associate in a coterie.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London II. vi. 156 If..I can do otherwise than coterie with Neville and the Beauchamps. coteˈriean adj. and n. (a) adj. of or pertaining to a coterie; (b) n. a member of a coterie. ΚΠ 1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 Poetry 225 Ye Coterieans! who profess No business, but to dance and dress. 1778 G. L. Way Learning at Loss I. 67 Drest by Coteriean Laws. ˈcoterieish adj. savouring of a coterie. ΚΠ 1841 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 8 590 [She] received an immense quantity of praise from the English press, courteous, cordial, and coterieish. ˈcoterieism n. the spirit or practice of coteries. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > a coterie or clique > quality coterieism1825 particularisma1834 cliquism1852 cliquishness1853 sectionalism1858 cliquiness1927 1825 New Monthly Mag. 13 584 This spirit of coterieism is so prevalent. 1862 R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 517 The polished coterieism of Moore. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1738 |
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