单词 | dalriadan |
释义 | Dalriadann.adj. Celtic History. A. n. A member of a Gaelic people inhabiting the ancient kingdom of Dalriada. Cf. Scot n.1 1.The Kingdom of Dalriada was originally located in the far north-east of Ireland and expanded into parts of what is now western Scotland (esp. Argyll) from at least the 5th cent. a.d. During the 9th cent., alliances between Dalriada and the Pictish kingdoms led to the formation of the kingdom of Alba, the forerunner of the medieval kingdom of Scotland. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Celtic people > [noun] > Gaels > person redshank1542 Britainer1570 Ulster Scot1654 Gael1684 Dalriadan1685 Dalriad1753 Goidel1869 1685 E. Stillingfleet Origines Britannicæ v. 281 The Ulster Dal-riadans. 1771 J. Macpherson Introd. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland 128 Should it be admitted that the Dalriadans were supported in their expedition into Caledonia by some other Irish tribes. 1794 Anthologia Hibernica May 325/2 The Picts and Caledonians who inhabited North Britain..were in a short time joined by the Dalnarians or Dalriadans from the north of Ireland, distinguished by foreign writers by the name of Scots. 1824 J. Macculloch Highlands & W. Isles I. 301 The Scots, the real Scots I mean, whether the Dalriadans or others. 1888 Amer. Naturalist Sept. 787 This Caledonia in the west—called Dalriada—came to be inhabited by the Irish Scot or Gael, while the east remained Pictish. These Dalriadans were the great Scots. 1920 L. Menzies St. Columba of Iona xvii. 209 Before King Aidan died in 606, he had been heavily defeated, and the fortunes of the Dalriadans seemed to be on the wane. 1968 B. Lehane Quest of Three Abbots (1994) vi. 131 The power of the Ulster Dalriadans over their Scottish colony. 2002 F. Welsh Four Nations (2003) ii. 40 Challenging Pictland in the west of Scotland were the Dalriadans, whose colony had formally divided from the Ulster mother community. B. adj. Of or relating to the Dalriadans or their kingdom. Cf. Dalriadic adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Celtic people > [adjective] > Gaels Erse1425 Scots?c1450 Gaedhelian1724 Gadhelica1773 Dalriadan1788 Dalriadic1789 Gaelic1807 Dalriad1811 Goidelic1874 1788 A. Coyle Collectanea Sacra I. i. 89 (note) The three Dalriadan brothers, Loarn, Fergus, and Engus, whom S. Patrick, the Irish Apostle, baptised and blessed. 1849 Hogg's Weekly Instructor 2 77/2 The descendants of these men returned with the Dalriadan prince Fergus to Caledonia in the beginning of the sixth century. 1887 Trans. Celtic Soc. Montreal 90 The Scoti landed in Kintyre and laid the foundation of what was known as the Dalriadan Kingdom. 1904 H. P. Brewster Saints & Festivals Christian Church 318 The land now called Scotland was then called Alban or Pictavia.., and the only Scots then known were the Dalriadan Scots of the north of Ireland who later colonized Argyle under Fergus mor mac Erc. 1984 A. P. Smyth Warlords & Holy Men ii. 66 The Dumbarton Britons, who in nearby Strathcarron in 642 had put an end to Dál Riatan hopes of moving into the vacuum created by the collapse of the kingdom of Gododdin. 2002 F. Welsh Four Nations (2003) ii. 41 Pictish forces..crushed the Dalriadan Scots in 741. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1685 |
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