单词 | sassanid |
释义 | Sassanidn.adj. A. n. A descendant of Sasan (see Sassanian n.), esp. a king of the Sassanian dynasty. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] > descendants of individuals Cainite1645 Japhetan1764 Sassanid1776 Sassanian1855 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. viii. 201 A new dynasty, which, under the name of Sassanides, governed Persia till the invasion of the Arabs.. 1871 P. Smith Anc. Hist. East xviii. §7. 379 The Sassanids..adopted a sacred standard of leather emblazoned with gems. 1929 E. C. Thomas Lay Folks' Hist. Liturgy i. v. 22 In a.d. 202 Abjar IX., Prince of Edessa, adopted Christianity, but this Church [in Persia] was barely tolerated by the Parthians and often persecuted by the Sassanids. 1931 A. W. Seaby Art in Life of Mankind 82 For sculpture the Sasanids used the cliff faces. 1977 Field 31 Mar. 525/1 For the early Persian dynasties such as the Archamedians and Sassanids, the rug may have been used as a gift from one ruler to another. B. adj. = Sassanian adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [adjective] > other specific Asian Achaemenian1661 Seleucian1715 Han1736 Sui1738 Song1759 Sassanian1788 Seleucidan1803 Tang1831 Qin1834 Safavi1835 Ming1836 Yin1846 Achaemenid1852 Seleucidic1853 Sassanid1867 Tokugawa1876 Safavid1887 Timurid1889 Seleucid1904 Sargonid1913 1867 C. M. Yonge Pupils of St. John xvii. 270 The Sassanid princes had taken up all the traditions of their supposed ancestry. 1895 S. D. F. Salmond Christian Doctr. Immortality i. vi. 101 [Zoroastrianism] held the Persian mind till the end of the Sassanid dynasty. 1904 F. C. Burkitt Early Eastern Christianity 25 The rise and decay of Christianity in the Sasanid Empire. 1910 R. Fry in Burlington Mag. Aug. 289/2 A late Sassanid aquamanile in the form of a bird. 1958 A. Toynbee East to West 165 The capital of the Sasanid Persian Empire's Arab wardens of the Arabian marches. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1776 |
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