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单词 milesian
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Milesiann.1adj.1

Brit. /mʌɪˈliːzɪən/, /mʌɪˈliːʒn/, /mᵻˈliːzɪən/, /mᵻˈliːʒn/, U.S. /məˈliʒ(ə)n/, /maɪˈliʒ(ə)n/, /məˈliʃ(ə)n/, /maɪˈliʃ(ə)n/
Forms: 1500s Milesyan, 1500s– Milesian, 1600s Mylesian.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: French Milesien ; Latin Mīlēsius , -an suffix.
Etymology: Partly < Middle French, French †Milesien, noun and adjective (French Milésien ; 1545 in the passage translated in quot. 1550 at sense A.), and partly < its etymon classical Latin Mīlēsius (noun) a native or inhabitant of Miletus, (adjective) of or relating to Miletus ( < ancient Greek Μιλήσιος, noun and adjective < Μίλητος (classical Latin Mīlētus) Miletus, the name of a city in Asia Minor + -ιος, suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix.The form Miletian occurs earlier in sense B. 2, but probably represents an independent formation < either English Miletus or classical Latin Mīlētus + -ian suffix rather than a variant of this word. Compare:1690 W. Temple Ess. upon Poetry (1909) 60 The next Succession of Poetry in Prose seems to have been in the Miletian Tales.
A. n.1
A native or inhabitant of ancient Miletus, a city in Asia Minor.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of ancient cities or states > [noun]
MedeeOE
PartheOE
PuniceOE
NineviteOE
Trojanc1330
sodomitea1382
Phoeniciana1387
Macedonianc1400
Parthianc1400
Macedonc1440
Phrygian?1473
Mycenaeanc1487
Tyrian1513
Sidonian?1520
Galatian1526
Canaanite1530
Cananaean1534
Milesian1550
Sogdian1553
Syrophœnician1560
Molossian1563
Hyrcanian1567
Palmyrene1567
Pergamenian1579
Smyrnian1579
Mysian1581
Carthaginian1592
Punican1595
Lycian1598
Smyrnaean1598
Phocaean1600
Gallo-greeks1601
Iberian1601
Minaean1601
Susian1601
Cappadocian1607
Carian1607
Paphlagonian1607
Hamathite1611
Pergamene1612
Byzantiana1620
Gallo-graecians1619
Chalcidian1654
Philadelphiana1680
Xanthian1685
Palmyrenian1697
Isaurian1776
Dardan1813
Byzantine1836
Bœotian1839
Ilian1847
Susianian1874
Libyo-Phœnician1876
Khaldian1882
Mitannian1907
Iconian1911
Petraean1923
Lycaonian1926
1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War iv. sig. Siiii verso They had in their compaignie the succours of Milesyans, of Andryens and of Caristians.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xliii. 1159 The Milesians for their part said, That hitherto they had done nothing.
1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty iv. iii. 35/1 The Milesians in the dayes of yore were valiant.
1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. ii. 1 Anaximander a Milesian.
a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 126 The Barbarian army..made an irruption into the Milesian territory, and seiz'd upon those women; whom the Milesians were forc'd to ransom.
1776 W. Ellis tr. Aristotle Treat. on Govt. i. xi. 36 As in the Contrivance of Thales the Milesian.
1869 A. W. Ward tr. E. Curtius Hist. Greece II. iii. iii. 472 The Milesians were unable to maintain themselves in Priene and turned to Athens.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 81/2 It probably was originally a Thracian town, but was afterwards colonized by Milesians.
1962 A. R. Burn Persia & Greeks 361 Hekataios failed to carry his motion, and his strategy was not tried; nor in any case would it have saved the Milesians, since the trial of strength at sea ended in defeat.
1981 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 42 378 The writings of the Milesians, if any existed at all, could only be described as memoranda, notes to themselves.
B. adj.1
1. Of or relating to Miletus or to its inhabitants.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Asia Minor and Middle East > other ancient cities
BabylonisheOE
Tyrian1513
Milesian1579
Smyrnian1579
Babylonical1597
Tiberian1601
Phocaean1614
Teian1647
Xanthian1685
Smyrnaean1807
Petraean1852
Smyrniote1867
Chalcidic1876
Chalcidian1880
Tarsian1895
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of ancient cities or states > [adjective]
NinevitishOE
Trojanc1374
Sardian1551
Susian?1552
Illyrian1556
Phoenician?1556
Hyrcan1567
Sidonian1578
Phrygian1579
Smyrnian1579
Lycaonian1582
Paphlagonian1596
Lycian1598
Galatian1603
Cappadocian1607
Canaanite1613
Mysian1613
Phocaean1614
Phrygic1614
Dardana1616
Babylonized1701
Pergamene1703
Milesiana1722
Canaanitic1753
Palmyrenian1776
Smyrnaean1807
Troic1838
Minaean1844
Ninevite1848
Smyrniote1867
Isaurian1880
Mitannian1897
Iconian1899
Mitannite1911
Thraco-Phrygian1924
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 621 Many of their kinges..were borne of the Ionian and Milesian curtisans.
1602 I. B. in F. Beaumont tr. Ovid Salmacis & Hermaphroditus Pref. Verses Or wanton Nymphs in watry bowres haue woue, With fine Mylesian threds, the verse he sings.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 599 The Calabrian, Milesian, and Arentinean sheepe.
1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Georgics (1684) iii. 102 In rich Milesian Fleeces cloth'd.
1684 Mr. Amhurst tr. Marcus Crassus in J. Dryden tr. Plutarch Lives III. 563 The People of Seleucia, had reason to commend the Wisdom of Esop's fable of the Sack, seeing their General Syrena carrying a bag full of loose Milesian Sonnets before him.
a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 126 The Barbarian army..made an irruption into the Milesian territory, and seiz'd upon those women; whom the Milesians were forc'd to ransom.
1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VIII. ii. lxv. 297 Lysander sent off the Milesian privateer Theopompus to proclaim it [sc. the victory] at Sparta.
1883 Harper's Mag. July 212/1 In the midst..Lay proud Scopas, lord of Cranon, On Milesian purples couched at ease.
1939 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. V. 124 The Milesian deportees were settled at the mouth of the River Tigris.
1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. vii. 191 Since it would be erroneous to call this Hippodamian planning, I shall follow Roland Martin and call it Milesian, after Miletus, the chief point of origin.
1999 Isis 90 575 The first three sections of the book, which start with the Milesian school of thought, progress to Leucippus, Democritus, and Empedocles.
2. Milesian tale n. (also Milesian story) [after Hellenistic Greek τὰ Μιλησιακά (classical Latin Milesiae, short for Milesiae fabulae), the title of a collection of stories by Aristides (2nd cent. b.c.); probably so called because Miletus was the traditional setting for the genre] an erotic short story of a type produced by ancient Greek and Roman novelists.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > romance > [noun] > a romance > specific
atalantis1709
Milesian tale?1799
family romance1814
?1799 S. T. Coleridge Catullian Hendecasyllables in Poems 1787–1833 Hear, my belovéd, an old Milesian story!
1859 A. H. Clough tr. Plutarch Lives III. 373 Certain wanton books, of the writings of Aristides, his Milesiaca..had been found among the baggage of Rustius... Rustius..is not to be excused, but the Parthians had forgot, when they mocked at the Milesian stories, that many of the royal line of their Arsacidæ had been born of Milesian and Ionian mistresses.
1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 319/1 The Milesian tale..grew in the hands of Petronius and Apuleius into the satirical romance.
1946 G. Stimpson Thousand Things 193 A class of short, salacious stories that were current two thousand years ago are known as Milesian tales.
1976 Renaissance Q. 29 191 I would like to suggest tentatively that the group of stories commonly known as Milesian tales may be an example of this kind of transmission.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Milesianadj.2n.2

Brit. /mʌɪˈliːzɪən/, /mʌɪˈliːʒn/, /mᵻˈliːzɪən/, /mᵻˈliːʒn/, U.S. /məˈliʒ(ə)n/, /maɪˈliʒ(ə)n/, /məˈliʃ(ə)n/, /maɪˈliʃ(ə)n/
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Milesius , -an suffix.
Etymology: < Milesius, Latinized form of Irish Míl Espáine, the name of a legendary Spanish king whose sons (as reported in Lebor Gabála) are reputed to have conquered and reorganized the ancient kingdom of Ireland about 1300 b.c. + -an suffix.
A. adj.2
Of or relating to Milesius or his people; Irish.See also Scot n.1 1, 2.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [adjective]
IrishOE
Ersea1464
Milesiana1599
Irishy1845
Oirish1886
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 31 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) All which are in truth fables, and very Milesian lyes, as the later proverbe is: for never was there such a King of Spaine, called Milesius.
1705 M. Kennedy (title) A Chronological Genealogical and Historical Dissertation of the Royal Family of the Stuarts, beginning with Milesius the stock of those they call the Milesian Irish, and of the old Scotish Race.
1763 J. Macpherson Temora Diss. p. xxv As a Scotsman, and, of course, descended of the Milesian race, I might have committed some of those oversights..said to be peculiar to them.
1771 J. Macpherson Introd. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland 102 Some Irish annalists affirm, that the Picts..were tributary to the Milesian Scots of Ireland.
1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iv. 28 The wild Milesian features..salute you on all highways and byways.
1884 Spectator 4 Oct. 1298/2 If..only the pure Milesian race should own the soil..the country would be under-populated.
1890 D. Hyde in tr. Beside Fire Pref. p. xix Some of the Scotch stories may have been bequeathed to the Gaelic language by those races who were displaced by the Milesian Conquest in the fifth century.
1929 P. Guedalla Missing Muse 223 The tourist notes..an almost total absence of Milesian eloquence.
2004 P. B. Ellis Celts iii. 29 The symbolism goes even further back, to the tradition of the Milesian invasion.
B. n.2
A member of the people descended from the companions of Milesius; (sometimes humorous) an Irish person.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Ireland
IrishmanOE
Ireis1297
hooded mana1464
Mac1518
Irish1553
Teague?1661
bog-trotter1682
Milesian1682
dear joy1688
Teaguelander1689
paddy1714
bog-lander1736
bog-stalkera1758
brogueneer1758
paddywhack1773
Pat1796
West Briton1805
Irisher1807
Patlander1820
Greek1823
Mick1850
redneck1852
Grecian1853
mickeyc1854
Mike1859
harp1904
1682 P. Walsh Prospect State Irel. To Rdr. sig. b2 So little he has of the very Milesians, or their Antiquities or Actions.
1767 J. Parsons Remains of Japhet 274 So, when the Milesians invaded Ireland, they spoke the same language with the inhabitants, who had been there very early after the deluge.
1771 E. Griffith Hist. Lady Barton I. 54 The old Irish families stile themselves Milesians, from Milesius, a Spaniard, who brought over a colony of his countrymen to people the island.
1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iv. 28 The English coachman..lashes the Milesian with his whip.
1847 A. Trollope Macdermots I. ii. 12 A something Macdermot, true Milesian, pious Catholic, and descendant of king somebody, died somewhere.
1921 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 167 And lastly the Milesians. The Milesian being a literary and honorific cognomen of the Firbolgs' conquerors, the Gaels.
1971 It 2 June 24/1 There is to be noticed a marked difference between the [legendary] tribes and races mentioned above and the first groups of wholly human invaders to reach these shores, who were called the Milesians or ‘Sons of Miledh’.
1994 M. Heaney Over Nine Waves p. x After their final defeat by the Milesians, the Tuatha De Dannan went underground to live in the sidhes, those earthworks and raths that are scattered all over Ireland.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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