单词 | kingite |
释义 | Kingiten.adj. Now historical. A. n. A supporter of a king. In later use spec. (New Zealand) a follower or supporter of the Maori King during the New Zealand Wars of 1845–72; a member or supporter of the King Movement (see King Movement n. at king n. Compounds 4a). Cf. Queenite n. ΚΠ 1778 Public Advertiser 20 Mar. They consist of the Buteites, the Kingites, the Bedfordites, and the Northites. 1817 Parl. Hist. Eng. XXX. anno 1792 131 One side was called Pittites, and the other Foxites: but..they had all coalesced, and called themselves Kingites. 1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 502/2 The match was cleverly played between the Kingites and the Queenites. 1857 B. Y. Ashwell Let. in Lett. & Jrnls. (typescript, Alexander Turnbull Library, N.Z.) II. 290 The other party, the Kingites, anxious for the entire independence of their country. 1910 J. Cowan Maoris of N.Z. xxvii. 289 All might have gone well had the Kingites been able to restrain their more turbulent spirits. 1959 K. Sinclair in J. E. Gorst Maori King p. xiv He was driven out by the Kingites on 18 April, 1863. 2001 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 6 Feb. 7 The Crown,..despite having agreed in the treaty to respect the right of Maori to retain their lands, saw the Kingites as a challenge to the authority of the Queen. B. adj. New Zealand. Of, relating to, or designating a supporter of the Maori King during the New Zealand Wars of 1845–72; of or relating to the King Movement. ΚΠ 1860 in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 600 One of the Kingite chiefs here..returned not long ago from Waikato. 1884 J. H. Kerry-Nicholls King Country 6 In 1857 Kingite meetings were held in Paetai. 1910 J. Cowan Maoris of N.Z. xxvii. 286 This Kingite war-song..is still on the lips of the Waikato people. 1959 K. Sinclair in J. E. Gorst Maori King 263 There were no large Kingite meetings, at which he could have been formally ‘installed’. 2015 L. Burgess Hist. Churches 95 Finally, in 1863, Morgan was expelled from Waikato by Kingite Maori. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1778 |
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