Rhodiann.adj.

Brit.

/ˈrəʊdɪən/, U.S.

/ˈroʊdiən/

Forms: late Middle English–1500s Rodyan, late Middle English–1500s Rhodyan, 1500s Rodian, 1500s Rodyen, 1500s–1600s Rhodien, 1500s– Rhodian.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Rhodius , Rodius , -an suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin Rhodius (also Rodius) of or belonging to Rhodes, Rhodian, designating a rhetorical style, (noun) inhabitant of Rhodes ( < ancient Greek Ῥόδιος of or from Rhodes < Ῥόδος (classical Latin Rhodos, Rhodus (also Rodos, Rodus)) the name of Rhodes, an island in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Lycia (in Asia Minor) with a capital of the same name + -ιος, suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix. Compare classical Latin Rhodiēnsis (also Rodiēnsis) of Rhodes, Rhodian, (noun) inhabitant of Rhodes, Middle French, French rhodien, noun (1546) and adjective (1547).With Rhodian law at sense B. 2b compare classical Latin lēx Rhodia.

A. n.

1. A native or inhabitant of Rhodes, an island in the Aegean Sea off the south-west coast of Turkey.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Greece > Greek islands

Rhodianc1450

Naxianc1487

Candian1549

Melian1550

Parian1550

Sciote1553

Cretan1579

Samian1579

Leucadian1615

Sciana1641

Siphnian1709

Septinsular1807

Ionian1816

Corfiote1835

Naxiote1859

c1450 tr. G. Boccaccio De Claris Mulieribus (1924) l. 1743 Anon the Rodyans withouten taryynge, Supposynge, their navy had preuayled, Openyd the gatys.

1542 N. Vyllagon Lamentable & Piteous Treat. in Harleian Misc. (1808) I. 244 Whiche tempest vsed no lesse rygorousnes with the shippes of the Rhodyans.

1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 137^v Iogines Laerce writeth that there was a Rhodian iesting one day with the philosoper Eschines.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage V. xiii.438 The Oracle forbade the Rhodians to erect againe.

1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium II. iii. i. 42 Some of the Rhodians had mov'd that they might help Perseus the King of Macedonia, in case peace could not be obtained for him.

1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems ii. 73 When first the Rhodian's mimic art arrayed The queen of Beauty in her Cyprian shade.

1831 A. Sutherland Achievements of Knights of Malta II. 8 Anthony Meligalle, a Rhodian of noble birth, who had once worn the cross of the Order.

1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 239/2 The Rhodians rose upon and expelled the intruders.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 546/2 Memnon the Rhodian..saw the European coasts exposed and set out to raise Greece.

1998 J. L. Heilbron Geom. Civilized v. 223 It is one of those sand drawings that convinced the shipwrecked philosopher Aristippus that the Rhodians were civilized.

†2. A member of the order of the Knights Hospitallers, based on the island of Rhodes from 1310 until 1522. See Knights Hospitallers at hospitaller n. 3. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > member of order of knights, etc. > [noun]

Templarc1290

hospitallerc1386

Templaryc1460

Rhodian?1482

spittlerc1540

stelliferc1540

Johannite1570

Annunciade1593

Port-glaive1652

sword-bearer1656

turcopole1896

society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > religio-military religious > Knights Hospitaller > [noun] > member of

hospitallerc1386

Rhodian?1482

spittlerc1540

?1482 J. Kay tr. G. Caoursin Siege of Rhodes (1870) 147 And also were ordeyned men of werre in the netherest dyche: to helpe the Rhodyans yf nede were.

1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Ivij Armytes, Ancres, Rodianes, and other disguised harlottes.

1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xlvij^v Rhodyanes, Templers, Hospytelers.

1656 W. Davenant Siege of Rhodes iii. 15 These Rhodians, who of Honour boast, A loss excuse, when bravely lost: Now they may bravely lose their Rhodes, Which never play'd against such odds.

1792 W. Dalrymple Acts of Apostles 279 (note) Malta, famous for the residence of military knights, called also Rhodians.

1815 J. Nightingale London & Middlesex III. 587 They were first named Hospitallers... Afterwards Knights of Rhodes, or the Rhodian Knights, or the Rhodians of St. John.

B. adj.

1. Of or relating to the order of the Knights Hospitallers based on the island of Rhodes (see sense A. 2).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > order of knights > [adjective]

Rhodian1524

starred1537

Templarian1602

Templarlike1612

Hospitaller Knight1613

society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > religio-military religious > Knights Hospitaller > [adjective]

Rhodian1524

1524 Begynnynge Ordre Knyghtes Hospytallers sig. Aiv^v In what maner and in what tyme the sayd knyghthode, hospytalyte and holy obseruacyon came in to Rodes and the successyon of the gestes the Rodyen hystoryes more playnly sheweth and declareth.

?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. E3 This is Erastus the Rhodian worthie.

1663 W. Davenant Siege of Rhodes: 2nd Pt. v. 50 Few Rhodian Knights, making their several stands, Out-strike Assemblies of our many Hands.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall VI. ii. lxviii. 466 His arms were checked..by the Rhodian knights.

1843 R. Browning Return of Druses in Bells & Pomegranates No. IV i. 3/2 A Rhodian eight-point cross of white flame.

1898 Folk-lore 9 73 The ‘dragon’ slain by St. Bertrand..is a small crocodile; so too was the ‘dragon’ destroyed by the Rhodian knight Dieudonné.

1906 A. C. Coolidge & W. H. Claflin Turkey i. viii. 112 The Egyptian envoy complained loudly at the Papal court against the Rhodian Knights for this fraud.

1976 K. M. Setton Papacy & Levant xv. 385/2 Taking counsel with the Rhodian knights and with his Genoese officers, he decided to attack ‘un bel chastel et ville que on nomme Lescandelour’.

2003 Polis Jan. 269 Heraldry of the Rhodian knights formerly in Smyrna castle.

a. Of, relating to, or inhabiting the island of Rhodes.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective] > Greek islands

Ionic1483

Rhodiana1533

Candian1559

lesbian1559

Cretan1579

Ionian1579

Ortygian1582

Parianc1602

Lemnian1611

Carpathian1637

lesbic1659

Eubœan1660

Melian1684

Sciote1718

Minoan1830

Naxiote1859

Corfiote1877

Knossian1894

Siphnian1895

Cycladic1915

Leucadian1952

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [adjective] > Greek islands

Rhodiana1533

Samian1579

Naxian1601

Scian1804

Naxiote1859

Corfiote1877

Cycladic1915

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) i. f. 1 ^v I lette the to wyte, that the Rodian people are curteis, and ful of good graces.

1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes (1568) 2 Pretor of the Rhodian Armies, and also wardein in other frontiers.

1584 T. Hudson tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Hist. Judith i. 5 The Rhodian Collos, and the Caldean wall.

1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 5 The Rhodian Colossus.

1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 435/1 Variegated marbles... Rhodian, with golden or pyritic spots.

1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. i. xviii. 41 The legend of the Rhodian archæologists respecting their œkist Althæmenês.

1850 H. Melville White-jacket lxxii. 353 Compare the sea-laws of our Navy with the Roman and Rhodian ocean ordinances.

1880 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 1 308 Mediaeval Rhodian love-poems.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 374/1 A Rhodian sculptor, whose title to fame is that he is mentioned by Pliny.

1973 Sci. Amer. Oct. 37/1 The Cretan archers' range was not the equal of the Persian archers', but the Rhodian slingers, Xenophon noted, ‘carried farther with their missiles than the Persians’.

1991 Classical Rev. 41 434 The difference in the appearance of the stone of the Museum's Rhodian and true Cypriote pieces and again for Cypriote style heads from Syria is noted.

b. Rhodian law: a collection of Byzantine laws, probably compiled in the 7th or 8th centuries a.d., regulating life at sea. Also Rhodian sea law, Rhodian maritime law.The laws included regulations for life on board ship, profit-sharing by crew members, and shared liability for the value of goods jettisoned, lost to pirates, or destroyed in shipwrecks.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > maritime law

admiralty1419

Rhodian law1613

sea-law1613

admiralty law1676

maritime lawa1682

1613 W. Welwood Abridgem. Sea-lawes Proem 2 The very Emperors of Rome..did referre all seafaring debates & controuersies, to the iudgement of the Rhodian law.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 454 The Rhodian law was the directory of the Romans in maritime affairs.

1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 239/2 Rhodian Law is the earliest system of marine law known to history, said to be compiled by the Rhodians after they had by their commerce and naval victories obtained the sovereignty of the sea, about 900 years before the Christian era.

1909 W. Ashburner Rhodian Sea-law Introd. p. xiii The little treatise on maritime law which is here edited..is oftenést described as the Rhodian Sea-law.

1913 Univ. of Pennsylvania Law Rev. 61 432 There is reason to believe that the Rhodian law was not simply a body of customary law, but that it was reduced to writing.

2009 C. Lin Maritime Transport Services ii. 19 Digest of Justinian recorded the earliest maritime codification by the Romans. It incorporated concepts from Rhodian maritime law from around 800 bc.

3. historical. Designating rhetoric or a rhetorical style characteristic of the ancient Rhodian school of oratory, regarded as being the middle way between the elaborate rhetoric of the Asiatic school and the restraint of the Attic. Also: designating the school itself. Cf. Asiatic adj. 1b, Atticism n. 2.The idea that the Rhodian was a ‘middle style’ appears to originate with Quintilian ( Institutio Oratoria xii. x.16–19 at 18). Cicero (in Brutus 51) claims only that the Rhodian was closer to Attic than was the Asiatic style.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speech-making > rhetoric > [adjective] > rhetorical > of specific styles

Rhodian1610

Demosthenian1620

Demosthenical1652

Demosthenic1748

1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God ii. x. 69 This Rhodian Rhetorike [L. genus illud dicendi Rhodium]; was a certaine meane, betweene the Asian and the Athenian. Aeschines inuented and taught it in his schoole at Rhodes after his retirement thether.

1676 tr. B. Lamy Art of Speaking iv. i. vii. sig. Bb2^v Antient Rhetoricians distinguish into three Forms the different Styles... The Third is the Rhodian Stile..a medium betwixt the liberty of the Asiatick, and the reservednes..of the Attick.

1774 J. Patsall in tr. Quintilian Inst. Orator II. xii. x. 411 Soon after, they who took notice of this difference of style, added the Rhodian, a middle kind, and, as it were composed of the two others; neither so close as the Attic, nor so abundant as the Asiatic, and seeming to retain something of the country and something of the author.

1852 B. Disraeli Ld. G. Bentinck xii. 203 The debate was opened by a dashing speech from Mr. McCarthy, worthy of the historical society in the most fervent hour of its Rhodian eloquence.

1876 B. Disraeli in Hansard Commons 11 Aug. 1138 After the Rhodian eloquence to which we have just listened, it is rather difficult for the House to see clearly the point which is before it.

1954 H. Caplan Cicero's Ad Herennium 193 The Rhodian school opposed the overloud delivery of the Asiatic orators.

2004 C. Lipson & R. A. Binkley Rhetoric before & beyond Greeks 18 Study of Rhodian rhetoric requires investigation of primary sources, often nontraditional in nature.

4. Designating a type of late Iznik ware pottery characterized by brilliant (esp. red) pigments and an expanded colour range.Produced from the late 1550s until around 1600, this pottery was formerly thought to have originated on Rhodes. Iznik in north-western Turkey was formerly known as Nicaea (see Nicaean adj., Nicene adj.).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [adjective] > Persian or Asian

Martaban1598

Rhodian1858

Rhages1909

Isnik1932

1858 S. Birch Hist. Anc. Pottery 13 The subjects on the later vases of the fine style recall to mind the descriptions of the pictures of Polygnotus; whilst in those of the decadence the treatment resembles that adopted by Zeuxis, Apelles, and other artists of the Rhodian school.

1871 A. Nesbitt Catal. Slade Coll. Glass 77 Rhodian ware.

1899 R. Glazier Man. Hist. Ornament 80 In the Rhodian Ware..the purple is replaced by a fine opaque red of great body, called Rhodian red, produced from Armenian bole.

1957 A. Lane Later Islamic Pottery iii. 60 It will probably never be possible to stop dealers and collectors calling the later Isnik wares ‘Rhodian’, and the nickname is..a convenient label for the whole class in which the ‘sealing-wax red’ appears.

1971 L. A. Boger Dict. World Pottery & Porcelain 165/1 Until recently Ottoman–Turkish pottery was attributed to the island of Rhodes and Syria and was accordingly identified as Rhodian or Damascus ware. At the present time it is attributed entirely to Isnik (ancient Nicaea) in western Anatolia.

1977 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 125 482/2 A large Bichrome V ware crater, decorated on both sides between the handles with animals in what is certainly a perfect imitation of the Rhodian style of the seventh century bc.

2004 J. Henderson in K. Pye & D. J. Croft Forensic Geoscience 154/2 (table) Rhodian ware. Bole red, blue and emerald green from Iznik.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rhodian
释义	Rhodiann.adj. Brit. /ˈrəʊdɪən/, U.S. /ˈroʊdiən/ Forms: late Middle English–1500s Rodyan, late Middle English–1500s Rhodyan, 1500s Rodian, 1500s Rodyen, 1500s–1600s Rhodien, 1500s– Rhodian. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Rhodius , Rodius , -an suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin Rhodius (also Rodius) of or belonging to Rhodes, Rhodian, designating a rhetorical style, (noun) inhabitant of Rhodes ( < ancient Greek Ῥόδιος of or from Rhodes < Ῥόδος (classical Latin Rhodos, Rhodus (also Rodos, Rodus)) the name of Rhodes, an island in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Lycia (in Asia Minor) with a capital of the same name + -ιος, suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix. Compare classical Latin Rhodiēnsis (also Rodiēnsis) of Rhodes, Rhodian, (noun) inhabitant of Rhodes, Middle French, French rhodien, noun (1546) and adjective (1547).With Rhodian law at sense B. 2b compare classical Latin lēx Rhodia. A. n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Rhodes, an island in the Aegean Sea off the south-west coast of Turkey. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Greece > Greek islands Rhodianc1450 Naxianc1487 Candian1549 Melian1550 Parian1550 Sciote1553 Cretan1579 Samian1579 Leucadian1615 Sciana1641 Siphnian1709 Septinsular1807 Ionian1816 Corfiote1835 Naxiote1859 c1450 tr. G. Boccaccio De Claris Mulieribus (1924) l. 1743 Anon the Rodyans withouten taryynge, Supposynge, their navy had preuayled, Openyd the gatys. 1542 N. Vyllagon Lamentable & Piteous Treat. in Harleian Misc. (1808) I. 244 Whiche tempest vsed no lesse rygorousnes with the shippes of the Rhodyans. 1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 137^v Iogines Laerce writeth that there was a Rhodian iesting one day with the philosoper Eschines. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage V. xiii.438 The Oracle forbade the Rhodians to erect againe. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium II. iii. i. 42 Some of the Rhodians had mov'd that they might help Perseus the King of Macedonia, in case peace could not be obtained for him. 1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems ii. 73 When first the Rhodian's mimic art arrayed The queen of Beauty in her Cyprian shade. 1831 A. Sutherland Achievements of Knights of Malta II. 8 Anthony Meligalle, a Rhodian of noble birth, who had once worn the cross of the Order. 1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 239/2 The Rhodians rose upon and expelled the intruders. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 546/2 Memnon the Rhodian..saw the European coasts exposed and set out to raise Greece. 1998 J. L. Heilbron Geom. Civilized v. 223 It is one of those sand drawings that convinced the shipwrecked philosopher Aristippus that the Rhodians were civilized. †2. A member of the order of the Knights Hospitallers, based on the island of Rhodes from 1310 until 1522. See Knights Hospitallers at hospitaller n. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > member of order of knights, etc. > [noun] Templarc1290 hospitallerc1386 Templaryc1460 Rhodian?1482 spittlerc1540 stelliferc1540 Johannite1570 Annunciade1593 Port-glaive1652 sword-bearer1656 turcopole1896 society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > religio-military religious > Knights Hospitaller > [noun] > member of hospitallerc1386 Rhodian?1482 spittlerc1540 ?1482 J. Kay tr. G. Caoursin Siege of Rhodes (1870) 147 And also were ordeyned men of werre in the netherest dyche: to helpe the Rhodyans yf nede were. 1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Ivij Armytes, Ancres, Rodianes, and other disguised harlottes. 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xlvij^v Rhodyanes, Templers, Hospytelers. 1656 W. Davenant Siege of Rhodes iii. 15 These Rhodians, who of Honour boast, A loss excuse, when bravely lost: Now they may bravely lose their Rhodes, Which never play'd against such odds. 1792 W. Dalrymple Acts of Apostles 279 (note) Malta, famous for the residence of military knights, called also Rhodians. 1815 J. Nightingale London & Middlesex III. 587 They were first named Hospitallers... Afterwards Knights of Rhodes, or the Rhodian Knights, or the Rhodians of St. John. B. adj. 1. Of or relating to the order of the Knights Hospitallers based on the island of Rhodes (see sense A. 2). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > order of knights > [adjective] Rhodian1524 starred1537 Templarian1602 Templarlike1612 Hospitaller Knight1613 society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > religio-military religious > Knights Hospitaller > [adjective] Rhodian1524 1524 Begynnynge Ordre Knyghtes Hospytallers sig. Aiv^v In what maner and in what tyme the sayd knyghthode, hospytalyte and holy obseruacyon came in to Rodes and the successyon of the gestes the Rodyen hystoryes more playnly sheweth and declareth. ?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. E3 This is Erastus the Rhodian worthie. 1663 W. Davenant Siege of Rhodes: 2nd Pt. v. 50 Few Rhodian Knights, making their several stands, Out-strike Assemblies of our many Hands. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall VI. ii. lxviii. 466 His arms were checked..by the Rhodian knights. 1843 R. Browning Return of Druses in Bells & Pomegranates No. IV i. 3/2 A Rhodian eight-point cross of white flame. 1898 Folk-lore 9 73 The ‘dragon’ slain by St. Bertrand..is a small crocodile; so too was the ‘dragon’ destroyed by the Rhodian knight Dieudonné. 1906 A. C. Coolidge & W. H. Claflin Turkey i. viii. 112 The Egyptian envoy complained loudly at the Papal court against the Rhodian Knights for this fraud. 1976 K. M. Setton Papacy & Levant xv. 385/2 Taking counsel with the Rhodian knights and with his Genoese officers, he decided to attack ‘un bel chastel et ville que on nomme Lescandelour’. 2003 Polis Jan. 269 Heraldry of the Rhodian knights formerly in Smyrna castle. 2. a. Of, relating to, or inhabiting the island of Rhodes. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective] > Greek islands Ionic1483 Rhodiana1533 Candian1559 lesbian1559 Cretan1579 Ionian1579 Ortygian1582 Parianc1602 Lemnian1611 Carpathian1637 lesbic1659 Eubœan1660 Melian1684 Sciote1718 Minoan1830 Naxiote1859 Corfiote1877 Knossian1894 Siphnian1895 Cycladic1915 Leucadian1952 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [adjective] > Greek islands Rhodiana1533 Samian1579 Naxian1601 Scian1804 Naxiote1859 Corfiote1877 Cycladic1915 a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) i. f. 1 ^v I lette the to wyte, that the Rodian people are curteis, and ful of good graces. 1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes (1568) 2 Pretor of the Rhodian Armies, and also wardein in other frontiers. 1584 T. Hudson tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Hist. Judith i. 5 The Rhodian Collos, and the Caldean wall. 1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 5 The Rhodian Colossus. 1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 435/1 Variegated marbles... Rhodian, with golden or pyritic spots. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. i. xviii. 41 The legend of the Rhodian archæologists respecting their œkist Althæmenês. 1850 H. Melville White-jacket lxxii. 353 Compare the sea-laws of our Navy with the Roman and Rhodian ocean ordinances. 1880 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 1 308 Mediaeval Rhodian love-poems. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 374/1 A Rhodian sculptor, whose title to fame is that he is mentioned by Pliny. 1973 Sci. Amer. Oct. 37/1 The Cretan archers' range was not the equal of the Persian archers', but the Rhodian slingers, Xenophon noted, ‘carried farther with their missiles than the Persians’. 1991 Classical Rev. 41 434 The difference in the appearance of the stone of the Museum's Rhodian and true Cypriote pieces and again for Cypriote style heads from Syria is noted. b. Rhodian law: a collection of Byzantine laws, probably compiled in the 7th or 8th centuries a.d., regulating life at sea. Also Rhodian sea law, Rhodian maritime law.The laws included regulations for life on board ship, profit-sharing by crew members, and shared liability for the value of goods jettisoned, lost to pirates, or destroyed in shipwrecks. ΘΚΠ society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > maritime law admiralty1419 Rhodian law1613 sea-law1613 admiralty law1676 maritime lawa1682 1613 W. Welwood Abridgem. Sea-lawes Proem 2 The very Emperors of Rome..did referre all seafaring debates & controuersies, to the iudgement of the Rhodian law. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 454 The Rhodian law was the directory of the Romans in maritime affairs. 1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 239/2 Rhodian Law is the earliest system of marine law known to history, said to be compiled by the Rhodians after they had by their commerce and naval victories obtained the sovereignty of the sea, about 900 years before the Christian era. 1909 W. Ashburner Rhodian Sea-law Introd. p. xiii The little treatise on maritime law which is here edited..is oftenést described as the Rhodian Sea-law. 1913 Univ. of Pennsylvania Law Rev. 61 432 There is reason to believe that the Rhodian law was not simply a body of customary law, but that it was reduced to writing. 2009 C. Lin Maritime Transport Services ii. 19 Digest of Justinian recorded the earliest maritime codification by the Romans. It incorporated concepts from Rhodian maritime law from around 800 bc. 3. historical. Designating rhetoric or a rhetorical style characteristic of the ancient Rhodian school of oratory, regarded as being the middle way between the elaborate rhetoric of the Asiatic school and the restraint of the Attic. Also: designating the school itself. Cf. Asiatic adj. 1b, Atticism n. 2.The idea that the Rhodian was a ‘middle style’ appears to originate with Quintilian ( Institutio Oratoria xii. x.16–19 at 18). Cicero (in Brutus 51) claims only that the Rhodian was closer to Attic than was the Asiatic style. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > rhetoric > [adjective] > rhetorical > of specific styles Rhodian1610 Demosthenian1620 Demosthenical1652 Demosthenic1748 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God ii. x. 69 This Rhodian Rhetorike [L. genus illud dicendi Rhodium]; was a certaine meane, betweene the Asian and the Athenian. Aeschines inuented and taught it in his schoole at Rhodes after his retirement thether. 1676 tr. B. Lamy Art of Speaking iv. i. vii. sig. Bb2^v Antient Rhetoricians distinguish into three Forms the different Styles... The Third is the Rhodian Stile..a medium betwixt the liberty of the Asiatick, and the reservednes..of the Attick. 1774 J. Patsall in tr. Quintilian Inst. Orator II. xii. x. 411 Soon after, they who took notice of this difference of style, added the Rhodian, a middle kind, and, as it were composed of the two others; neither so close as the Attic, nor so abundant as the Asiatic, and seeming to retain something of the country and something of the author. 1852 B. Disraeli Ld. G. Bentinck xii. 203 The debate was opened by a dashing speech from Mr. McCarthy, worthy of the historical society in the most fervent hour of its Rhodian eloquence. 1876 B. Disraeli in Hansard Commons 11 Aug. 1138 After the Rhodian eloquence to which we have just listened, it is rather difficult for the House to see clearly the point which is before it. 1954 H. Caplan Cicero's Ad Herennium 193 The Rhodian school opposed the overloud delivery of the Asiatic orators. 2004 C. Lipson & R. A. Binkley Rhetoric before & beyond Greeks 18 Study of Rhodian rhetoric requires investigation of primary sources, often nontraditional in nature. 4. Designating a type of late Iznik ware pottery characterized by brilliant (esp. red) pigments and an expanded colour range.Produced from the late 1550s until around 1600, this pottery was formerly thought to have originated on Rhodes. Iznik in north-western Turkey was formerly known as Nicaea (see Nicaean adj., Nicene adj.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [adjective] > Persian or Asian Martaban1598 Rhodian1858 Rhages1909 Isnik1932 1858 S. Birch Hist. Anc. Pottery 13 The subjects on the later vases of the fine style recall to mind the descriptions of the pictures of Polygnotus; whilst in those of the decadence the treatment resembles that adopted by Zeuxis, Apelles, and other artists of the Rhodian school. 1871 A. Nesbitt Catal. Slade Coll. Glass 77 Rhodian ware. 1899 R. Glazier Man. Hist. Ornament 80 In the Rhodian Ware..the purple is replaced by a fine opaque red of great body, called Rhodian red, produced from Armenian bole. 1957 A. Lane Later Islamic Pottery iii. 60 It will probably never be possible to stop dealers and collectors calling the later Isnik wares ‘Rhodian’, and the nickname is..a convenient label for the whole class in which the ‘sealing-wax red’ appears. 1971 L. A. Boger Dict. World Pottery & Porcelain 165/1 Until recently Ottoman–Turkish pottery was attributed to the island of Rhodes and Syria and was accordingly identified as Rhodian or Damascus ware. At the present time it is attributed entirely to Isnik (ancient Nicaea) in western Anatolia. 1977 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 125 482/2 A large Bichrome V ware crater, decorated on both sides between the handles with animals in what is certainly a perfect imitation of the Rhodian style of the seventh century bc. 2004 J. Henderson in K. Pye & D. J. Croft Forensic Geoscience 154/2 (table) Rhodian ware. Bole red, blue and emerald green from Iznik. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1450
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