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单词 gownsman
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gownsmann.

Brit. /ˈɡaʊnzmən/, U.S. /ˈɡaʊnzmən/
Forms: Also 1500s–1700s gownman.
Etymology: < gown n. + man n.1; compare craft(s)man, draught(s)man, sword(s)man, etc.
1. (Used to translate Latin togātus.) An adult Roman; a Roman as distinguished from one of another nation. Obsolete.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > ancient Romans > [noun] > native or inhabitant of ancient Rome
RomaneOE
RomewareeOE
Romanera1450
gownsman1579
Romulist1594
Romanist1927
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 573 He called Lucullus, Xerxes the gownman, as if he would haue sayd, Xerxes the Romane.
1579–80 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 959 Four years after that, he became a Gownman, though he were but young.
2. One wearing the gown, or ‘dress of peace’ (cf. gown n. 3 and Latin togātus); a civilian, in contradistinction to a soldier.
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society > armed hostility > peace > civilian life > [noun] > a civilian
gownsman1612
citizena1616
mohair1785
civilian1794
pékin1827
cit1833
mufti1833
non-militant1840
civvy1915
shore-loafer1916
1612 J. Boys Autumne Part 168 Then we shall be no longer souldiers in armour, but gowne men in long white robes, hauing palmes in our hands.
1643 G. Wither Campo-Musæ 15 The Gownman, must a Swordman, learne to be.
1699 T. Cockman tr. Cicero Offices i. xxiii. 77 The Publick receives as much Benefit from Gownsmen..as it doth from Soldiers.
1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 253 Let the politick Gown-man, Tread the Mazes of the State.
1759 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) IV. lx. 516 The soldiery..were more desirous of serving under a young prince of spirit and vivacity than under a committee of talking gown-men.
a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 648 It was rather a military spirit, than that of the gownman.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. ix. 485 Military men are seldom disposed to take counsel with gownsmen on military matters.
3. One who wears a gown as an indication of his office, profession, or standing.
a. A member of the legal profession; a lawyer, barrister, or judge.
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun]
lawyer1377
man of lawc1405
practiserc1450
jurist1481
lawman1535
practitioner1576
man of the long coat1579
(a gentleman) toward the law1592
gownsman1627
law-driver1640
long-robe man1654
green bag1699
flycatcher1708
homme d'affaires1717
jet1728
law-solicitor1738
shark1806
blue bag1817
law-person1819
law-gentleman1837
maître1883
lip1929
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) iii. 155 To play the Gowneman now He had forgot.
1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen 174 Instead of Gown-men pleading at the Bar, they found Sword-men fighting at the Barriers.
a1735 Ld. Lansdowne Beauty & Law in Poems 35 Was't a vain promise and a gownman's lie?
1858 A. Polson Law & Lawyers 60 He was a legal monk, a cloistered gownsman.
b. A member of the clerical profession; a clergyman. Now rare.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun]
God's maneOE
priestOE
clerkc1050
secularc1290
vicary1303
minister1340
divinec1380
man of Godc1384
kirkmana1400
man of the churchc1400
cockc1405
Ecclesiastc1405
spiritual1441
ministrator1450
abbé1530
reverend1547
churchman1549
tippet-captain?1550
tippet knight1551
tippet man1551
public minister1564
reading minister1572
clergyman1577
clerk1577
padre1584
minstrel1586
spiritual1600
cleric1623
cassock1628
Levite1640
gownsman1641
teaching elder1642
ecclesiastic1651
religionist1651
crape1682
crape-gown-man1682
man in black1692
soul driver1699
secularist1716
autem jet1737
liturge1737
officiant1740
snub-devil1785
soul doctor1785
officiator1801
umfundisi1825
crape-man1826
clerical1837
God-man1842
Pfarrer1844
liturgist1848
white-choker1851
rook1859
shovel hat1859
sky pilot1865
ecclesiastical1883
joss-pidgin-man1886
josser1887
sin-shiftera1912
sin-buster1931
parch1944
1641 J. Shirley Cardinal (1652) ii. iii. 20 But let the purple Gownman place his engins I' th' dark that wounds me.
a1693 M. Bruce Good News in Evil Times (1708) 24 You will not haunt the companie of Betrayers of Him, call them Gown-men, or call them Kirk-men as they will.
1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse v. 95 Lory Take care of this Reverend Gown-man in the next Room a little.
1794 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. I 12 Levite gownsmen hugg'd their ignorance.
1821 J. Baillie Columbus in Metrical Legends xl A mission'd gownsman o'er the sea Was sent.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 627 A gownsman who pushed himself into a battle..strongly excited William's spleen.
c. A member of a university; often opposed to townsman. gownsman of the foundation = foundationer n.
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society > education > member of university > [noun]
suppost1522
supposit1532
man1573
academic1581
catercap1588
black gown1616
square cap1642
academical1656
academician1665
gownsman1665
sleeve1752
Academe1861
1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 249 The idle sort of Gownmen, lazing in their Studies over the Pagan Books of Institutions.
c1670 T. Hobbes Dial. Com. Laws (1840) 144 Books which are commonly read by gownmen.
1688 T. Smith in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 243 Gownsmen of the Foundation.
1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius 18 Jan. The traiterous Gown-men proceeded gradually from one Corruption to another.
1750 W. Dodd Poems (1767) 38 The bevy bright of gownsmen blythe.
1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship vii. 33 My dear Miss S—— will perhaps ride away with some other Gownsman.
1823 C. Lamb in London Mag. May 535/2 The distance between the gownsmen and the townsmen..is carried to an excess.
1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars vi. 277 The townsmen soon discovered that the gownsmen were gainers by the new plan.
d. A member of a municipal corporation. Obsolete.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > local government body > [noun] > member of local government council > town-councillor
portman1346–7
commoner1384
burgessc1390
common-councilmana1637
councilman1659
corporator1670
gownsman1675
counsel-house-man1697
town councillor1731
1675 T. Otway Alcibiades i. ii. 7 Heavy Gown-men clad in formal Furrs.
1681 London Gaz. No. 1656/2 The Mayor and Aldermen..together with the Common Councel, and all the Gown men of that Corporation, to the number of about fourscore.
4. Scottish. = beadsman n. 2b(b). rare.
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1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xv. 138 Our lowland beggars—even the gownsmen themselves, who beg by patent—had a louting, flattering way with them.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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