| 单词 | merchant prince |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmerchant prince merchant prince n. [after Isaiah 23:8] a merchant or trader of great wealth, esp. one whose wealth is sufficient to confer political influence. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > merchant > [noun] > wealthy merchant prince1760 baron1818 lord1821 magnate1850 1760 Mod. Part Universal Hist. XVI. xvii. vii. 466 The king has the first choice of goods, whether in the payment of duties, or in exchange for slaves; the hereditary prince the second, the merchant prince the third, [etc.]. 1830 S. L. Fairfield Abaddon & Other Poems 37 Glittering marts of merchant princes meet To purchase monarchies. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. x. 252 Magdalen Hall..is now (through the munificence of a merchant-Prince) Hertford College. 1990 Christianity Today 14 May 66/2 And yet the church..has been astonishingly ineffective in catechizing its merchant-princes in the Way. < as lemmas |
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