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单词 roman emperor
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Roman Emperorn.

Brit. /ˌrəʊmən ˈɛmp(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˌroʊmən ˈɛmp(ə)rər/
Forms: see Roman n.1 and adj.1 and emperor n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Roman adj.1, emperor n.
Etymology: < Roman adj.1 + emperor n. With sense 2 compare Dutch (now hist.) Roomse keizer (Middle Dutch roomsche keiser ), Middle Low German römischer kayser , German (now hist.) römischer Kaiser (Middle High German rœmischer keiser ), and earlier King (also Emperor) of the Romans at Roman n.1 1c and later Holy Roman Emperor n.
1. historical. The sovereign of the undivided Roman Empire (Roman Empire n. 1), or of one of the Western or Eastern empires; = emperor n. 1a.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > emperor > [noun] > of eastern or western Roman Empire
emperor?c1225
Roman Emperorc1405
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Ellesmere) (1871) l. 954 Now lat vs stynte of Custance..And speke we of the Romayn Emperour.
a1623 Sir G. Buck Hist. Richard III (1979) ii. 80 Roman emperors in their greatest height were called princeps.
1646 S. Danforth Almanack 12 Julius Caesar the Roman Emperor.
1689 R. Atkyns Power, Jurisdict. & Priviledge of Parl. 16 Tacitus, in his Annals, gives this excellent Commendation of two of the best of the Roman Emperors, Nerva and Trajan.
a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. iii. 538 Till about the end of the third Century..I do not remember to have seen the head of a Roman Emperor drawn with a full face.
1796 R. Macfarlan Hist. Reign George Third IV. 590 Did the sanguinary laws forced upon the senate make the lives of the Roman emperors more secure?
1829 J. Malcolm Hist. Persia (new ed.) I. v. 106 Kobad carried on a successful war against the Roman Emperor Anastasius.
1875 C. A. Jones Our Eng. Church iii. 11 (heading) The persecution of the Christians in Britain under the Roman Emperor Diocletian.
1903 G. F. Wright Asiatic Russia I. xiii. 267 Ambassadors were sent..by Justin II., the Roman emperor at Byzantium.
1951 P. G. Wodehouse Old Reliable i. 9 A large, stout, elderly gentleman..who looked like a Roman Emperor.
2002 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 10 July 6 Hadrian, the Roman Emperor who planned the great wall across northern Britain.
2. = Holy Roman Emperor n.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > emperor > [noun] > of western or Holy Roman Empire
emperorc1325
Kaisera1425
King (also Emperor) of the Romansc1450
Roman Emperor1567
Caesar1673
Holy Roman Emperor1784
Western emperor1790
1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. vi. 627 In the name of ye most godly, and most mighty Prince my Lord Charles, the Romaine Emperour.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. iv. 52 Vpon the wals of the said Castle, and vpon the windowes of the Church, these words were written in latine. To Charles the fifth, &c. To the most inuincible Caesar Charles the fifth Roman Emperour, the victorious desender of the Catholike Religion, and Augustus. The Prouisors of this House haue placed this, in the yeere 1547.
1680 R. Baxter Church-hist. Govt. Bishops ix. 261 It's before said, that after the Bishop's deposing him, Lotharius was restored, the three Brothers agreeing, that Ludovicus should have Germany, and part of France, and Charles have France, and Lotharius Narbon and Italy as Roman Emperor.
1740 J. Campbell Mem. Duke de Ripperda 75 It is agreed, that his Imperial and Catholick Majesty Charles VI. Roman Emperor, and his Catholick Majesty Philip V. King of Spain, and the Indies, shall use during their Lives the Titles they at present bear.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. xlix. 167 In obedience to a secret treaty, the Roman emperor immediately withdrew.
1849 Mass. Q. Rev. Mar. 140 However, until Maximilian I., the title of Roman Emperor was given only to those German kings who were crowned by the pope, otherwise they had only the title of Roman King.
1889 T. H. Huxley in 19th Cent. Mar. 438 Charles, or, more properly, Karl, King of the Franks, consecrated Roman Emperor in St. Peter's, on Christmas Day, a.d. 800, and known to posterity as the Great..was a man great in all ways, physically and mentally.
1932 C. H. Dawson Making of Europe iii. xii. 221 This anomalous state of things was ended by the Pope's recognition of Charles as Roman Emperor and his coronation at Rome on Christmas Day in the year 800.
1977 H. E. Smither Hist. Oratorio i. ii. 30 The pope came to terms with Charles, and in 1530 at Bologna, he crowned him Roman emperor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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