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单词 patriciate
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patriciaten.

Brit. /pəˈtrɪʃɪət/, U.S. /pəˈtrɪʃ(i)ᵻt/
Forms: 1600s– patriciate, 1800s patriciat (in sense 2, rare).
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin patriciātus.
Etymology: < classical Latin patriciātus the rank of patrician, in post-classical Latin with reference to an honorary title conferred on high-ranking officials (4th cent.), and with reference to provincial governors (6th cent.) < patrīcius (see patrician n.1 and adj.1) + -ātus -ate suffix1. Compare French patriciat (1565 in Middle French as patritiat), Italian patriziato (1554), Spanish patriciado (1596 or earlier).In sense 2 probably after French patriciat (1793 in this sense).
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.
b. Roman History. The period of tenure of the position or dignity of patrician (patrician n.1 1a). Obsolete. rare.
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).
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