单词 | salian |
释义 | Salianadj.1n.1 A. adj.1 Of or pertaining to the Salii or priests of Mars in ancient Rome. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [adjective] > ancient Roman pontifical1579 Saliarian1598 pontificial1609 pontific1644 Salian1653 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 22 Numa Pompilius also instituted 12 Salian Priests in the honour of Mars. 1857 H. Spencer in Westm. Rev. Apr. 462 Among the Romans, too, there were sacred dances: the Salian and Lupercalian being named as of that kind. 1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. iii. 107 The catacomb triumphed over the Grecian temple; the cross of shame over the wine-cup and the Salian banquet. B. n.1 One of the Salii. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > ancient Roman father patrate1533 fetial1533 flamen1533 pontifex1579 pontiff1600 septemvir1600 pontifice1603 Arval Brethren1656 Salian1781 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) III. xxviii. 71 The confraternities of the Salians, the Lupercals, &c. practised such rites, as might extort a smile of contempt from every reasonable man. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Salianadj.2n.2 A. adj.2 Of or belonging to a tribe of Franks who inhabited a region near the Zuyder Zee, and to whom the ancestors of the Merovingian dynasty belonged. (Cf. Salic adj.1). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Germanic people > ancient Germanic peoples > [adjective] > tribes Belgic1577 Marcomannic1661 Suevic1663 Alemannic1669 Rugian1723 Saliana1727 Salic1781 Alemannian1786 Alemannish1813 Rus1877 a1727 I. Newton Observ. Prophecies Daniel (1733) i. v. 43 By the access of these Gauls, and of the foreign Franks also,..the Salian kingdom soon grew very great. 1837 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. I. 208 This regulation of the descent of the French crown was said, though improperly, to depend on a law of the Salian Franks, hence called the Salic law. 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 529/2 There is in the Salian law no trace of a primitive nobility. B. n.2 A Salian Frank. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Germanic people > ancient Germanic peoples > [noun] > tribes > member of Suevea1387 Suevian1549 Rugian1561 Marcomanni1598 Nervii1598 Salian1614 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor ii. i. 175 The old Franks which were Teutonique, and calld also Salians. 1830 T. C. Grattan Hist. Netherlands 11 The Salians, and the other petty tribes of Franks, their allies, were essentially warlike. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1n.11653adj.2n.21614 |
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