单词 | dalriad |
释义 | Dalriadn.adj. Celtic History. A. n. = Dalriadan n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Celtic people > [noun] > Gaels > person redshank1542 Britainer1570 Ulster Scot1654 Gael1684 Dalriadan1685 Dalriad1753 Goidel1869 1753 C. O'Conor Diss. Hist. Ireland xi. 201 The Dalriads of Ireland and North-Britain. 1789 J. Pinkerton Enq. Hist. Scotl. II. iv. i. 52 The old Scots in Britain, otherwise called Dalriads. 1834 Belfast News Let. 7 Feb. The Irish Scots or Dalriads obtained possession of Cantire. 1895 R. C. Graham Carved Stones of Islay ii. 8 At the beginning of the sixth century occurred the great invasion of the Dalriads or Scots from Ireland. 1924 Times 16 July 8/4 The stone [of Scone] was brought over to Scotland by Fergus the son of Eric, who came over from Ireland with the Dalriads and founded the kingdom of Albania. 2005 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 24 Mar. (Features section) 15 The Picts and the Dalriads were later being hammered into one people under the assault of the Vikings. B. adj. = Dalriadan adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Celtic people > [adjective] > Gaels Erse1425 Scots?c1450 Gaedhelian1724 Gadhelica1773 Dalriadan1788 Dalriadic1789 Gaelic1807 Dalriad1811 Goidelic1874 1811 J. Jamieson Hist. Acc. Anc. Culdees of Iona ii. 21 The island of Iona was given to Columba by Conal, or Conval, son of Comgal, king of the Dalriad Scots. 1888 J. Rankin Handbk. Church Scotl. (ed. 4) i. 11 Kintyre and Knapdale were also occasional residences of the Dalriad kings. 1902 H. J. Mackinder Brit. & Brit. Seas xii. 187 It was the Dalriad Scots who crossed to Argyll, and passing thence,..gradually conquered and Celticised the Picts of the eastern Highlands. 1986 D. Porter Frommer's Scotl. & Wales on $35 Day (new ed.) 13 By the year a.d.500 these short, dark Picts had been again attacked, this time by a different breed of Celt, the Dalriad Irish, called Scots. 2007 T. Jaques Dict. Battles & Seiges II. 595/2 On the death of the Pictish King Uven, King Kenneth I MacAlpin of the Dalriad Scots marched east to claim the throne. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1753 |
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