单词 | eupatrid |
释义 | eupatridn. 1. a. One of the hereditary aristocracy of Athens; a member of the first of the three orders in the early Athenian constitution. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of > patrician patrice?1530 patrician1533 eupatrid1836 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of > patrician > at Athens eupatrid1836 1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece II. 41 It [the Four Hundred] was a popular body, as compared with an assembly of the eupatrids. 1838 F. A. Paley tr. G. F. Schömann Com. Atheniensibus 342 Clisthenes.. abolished the ancient division of tribes, as the most effectual means of reducing the power of the Eupatridæ. 1863 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 290 The Greek Eupatrid or the Roman Patrician. b. Hence (rarely) gen. One who is of noble descent, a ‘patrician’. ΚΠ 1862 F. Hall in Jrnl. As. Soc. Bengal 205 Amushyáyana, ‘son of somebody’, an hidalgo, a eupatrid. 1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele I. 251 The big eupatrid is of somewhat offensive presence. 2. attributive (quasi-adj. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [adjective] aristocratic1596 select1602 qualified1604 patrician?1614 classical1629 aristocratical1742 ruffle-shirted1805 connected1817 thoroughbred1821 upper1825 eupatrid1833 optimate1846 classy1870 silver-tailed1890 upper-bracket1945 upscale1966 1833 J. Kenrick in Philolog. Museum ii. 368 A proof of Athenian blood and citizenship, not of Ionian and eupatrid extraction. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. x. 107 This eupatrid oligarchy and severe legislation. 1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 206 He [Æschylus] belonged to a distinguished eupatrid family probably descended from Codrus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1833 |
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