单词 | patriciate |
释义 | patriciaten. 1. a. The position, dignity, or rank of patrician; nobility of rank. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of > patrician > position of patrician patriciate1656 patricianate1856 patricianship1867 patricianhood1885 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Patriciate, the dignity and estate of them that descend of Senators. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Patrician This new Patriciate..was erected by Constantine; who attributed the Quality to his councellors. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. viii. ii. 292 The Patriciate and Defensorship of the city of Rome. 1944 L. Mumford Condition of Man iii. 83 Paulinus of Nola, a Roman born to the patriciate. 1994 I. Wood Merovingian Kingdoms (BNC) 18 Nepos at first delighted Sidonius by conferring on Ecdicius the patriciate which Anthemius had promised. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > governors by country > [noun] > in later Roman or Holy Roman Empire > position of patriciate1875 1875 E. A. Freeman Spalato in Sketch Subj. Lands Venice (1881) 145 The villa near Salona where the deposed Emperor Nepos was slain, during the patriciate of Odoacer. 2. A patrician class or order; an aristocracy. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] optimacy1579 aristocracy1651 great world1699 peerage1725 well-connected1788 governing class1795 patriciate1795 well-connected1831 caste1842 (the) salt of the earth1842 the leisured class(es1848 japonicadom1851 countyocracy1859 masterclass1861 proprietariat1872 four hundred1888 the Establishment1923 gratin1934 power élite1942 U1954 upper1955 topside1958 1795 tr. L. S. Mercier Fragm. Politics & Hist. I. 331 The patriciate was the gangrene of the republic, and had attacked the Senate itself. 1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire I. xi. 538 No aristocracy was ever more shortsighted at the crisis of its fate than the once glorious patriciate of Rome. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 338 The English inhabitants formed a dominant class or patriciate. 1923 G. M. Trevelyan Manin & Venetian Revol. i. 6 This traditional power was now passing out of the hands of the Maggior Consiglio of the whole patriciate to the Council of Ten. 1990 Raritan Winter 123 This was Thorstein Veblen's 1899 The Theory of the Leisure Class, a study..of..America's leisured elite, its would-be patriciate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1656 |
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