Paduann.adj.

1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. G.i In times past T. Liuius was not neglected, althoughe some one sayde he founde in him mere Padowan: Nor Virgil, for that he was reprehended that he spake not Romane.

a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. E4^v I haue giuen non-plus to the Paduans.

1595 V. Saviolo Practise i. i. sig. **2 The Padouan replyed, that he meant to have cut of the Spaniards heade firste.

1611 H. Holland in T. Coryate Crvdities sig. d 7^v Now go we to the towne of learned Liuy [sic] Where being before Licentiat he proceeded To beg like a poore Paduan, when he needed.

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 205 Valerius Flaccus the Poet, a Paduan.

1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. xv. 416 A Veronese..heard of the Paduan's exquisiteness of feeling on this occasion [i.e. reading a story].

1820 Ld. Byron Let. 10 Jan. (1977) VII. 25 I have always understood her to be a very respectable woman—that is for Italy—She is a Padouan.

1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 867/1 The talents which these Paduans possessed to engrave dies.

1897 Mod. Lang. Notes 12 2/2 Petrarch..describes the effect of reading the story upon a sentimental friend, a Paduan, and upon a sceptical friend, a Veronese.

1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. ii. 25 The Paduans wanted a building to rival St. Mark's at Venice.

2002 Racing Post (Nexis) 28 May 68 The Paduan turned a few heads when he beat Ivan Ljubicic 4–6 6–1 7–6 [at tennis].

1770 Ann. Reg. 1769 196/2 In a separate case are contained the Paduans and other counterfeit medals. [Note A Paduan..is a modern medal struck with all the marks and characters of antiquity.]

1860 Harper's Mag. Feb. 340/2 In Padua, about 1540, two engravers, Jean Cavino and Alexander Bassiano, were manufacturers of copies of coins and medals. They pursued this honest line of business until they became so skillful that their copies could not be detected from originals, and then they began to sell them as genuine coins and medals. Hence came the name Paduan, applied by collectors to any ancient coin of modern make.

1994 Coin News May 38/3 Many Paduans are straight copies—and very good ones—of Roman originals; others are fantasy coins in Roman style.

c1726 R. North Musicall Gramarian in G. Strahle Early Music Dict. (1995) 263/2 [During the reign of Charles I] they often used, a very Grave kind of Ayre, wch they called a padoanna, or pavan; this had had [sic] 3. straines, Each being twice played went of heavyly, Especially when a Rich veine failed the Master.]

1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 627/2 Padua gave its name to the ancient dance Paduan, or Pavan.

1884 H. R. Haweis My Musical Mem. iii. 94 Paduans are strong [violin-strings], but frequently false.

1633 J. Shirley Wittie Faire One iii. i Doctor? art a Parisian, a Paduan, or a Leaden Doctor?

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 220 The Paduan herbarists.

1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 124 Here also we saw the Steel Dyes of the Paduan Brothers by which they stampt and falsified the best ancient medals.

1748 A. M. Don Ricardo Honeywater Vindicated 45 The Paduan Doctor..challenges the whole College of Madrid to find Fault with his Practice.

1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 42 For, besides my observation in the Paduan, Veronese, and Vicentine territories, I have seen lava, in the public museum at Padua, from the Brescian hills.

1801 D. Stewart Life & Writings W. Robertson 152 An admixture of Paduan idioms.

1846 N. Hawthorne Mosses from Old Manse I. 85 Giovanni..took lodgings in a high and gloomy chamber of an old edifice, which looked not unworthy to have been the palace of a Paduan noble.

1897 Polit. Sci. Q. 12 531 The books of the brilliant and eloquent Paduan professor follow each other with a rapidity that is astonishing to a foreigner.

1941 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 2 490 As an organized and cumulative body of ideas, the thought of the Paduan Aristotelians displays the elaboration and development of a set of problems handed on from generation to generation.

1988 Renaissance Stud. 2 161 He found time, during his service at the Paduan courts, to compose a number of writings.

1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course ii. f. 24^v Pollio obiected Paduanisme [Fr. Padoüennerie] vnto Liuie.

1903 H. N. Fowler Hist. Rom. Lit. xii. 160 His [sc. Livy's] Latin is pure, and it is difficult to see what Asinius Pollio meant by accusing him of ‘Patavinitas’ or Paduanism.