单词 | vexillary |
释义 | vexillaryn.adj. A. n. Roman History. 1. A veteran of the oldest category in the Roman army, serving under a special standard. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > Roman or Greek soldier of specific type of unit > [noun] legionary1536 legioner1552 vexillary1591 vexillary soldier1591 phalangite1758 hypaspista1827 manipular1858 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 63 Three Prætorian cohortes, and a thousand Vexillaries [L. vexillarios]. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xi. 209/2 The Vexillaries of three British Legions followed Vitellius in his Expedition against the Illyrian Armie. 1735 Bayle's Gen. Dict. Hist. & Crit. (new ed.) II. 8/2 Vespasian..chose out a body of Vexillaries from the Legions. 1793 A. Murphy tr. Tacitus Hist. iii. xxiv, in tr. Tacitus Wks. III. 126 In the left wing were placed the vexillaries of the thirteenth legion. 1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 74 In letters like to those the vexillary Hath left crag-carven o'er the streaming Gelt. 1978 Spectator 27 May 22/3 The Roman-British vexillary. 2. A Roman standard-bearer. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > standard-bearer gonfaneura1250 banneour1297 bannerer1387 standarda1425 banner-bearerc1440 standard-bearerc1453 stander bearerc1475 bannerman?a1500 gonfanonera1500 bannereta1513 pendant bearer1552 ancient-bearer1579 ensign1579 ensign-bearer1579 alferez1581 gonfalonier1586 guidon1591 abanderado1598 ancient1600 porte-guidon1656 vexillary1656 pennona1661 colour sergeant1813 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Vexillary, a Standard-bearer. 1885 M. M. Ripley & W. J. Clark tr. V. Duruy Hist. Rome IV. ii. lxxvi. 592 The vexillary was the standard-bearer. 2000 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 25 Mar. 2 f Vexillary is a standard-bearer in the Roman army. B. adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > Roman or Greek soldier of specific type of unit > [noun] legionary1536 legioner1552 vexillary1591 vexillary soldier1591 phalangite1758 hypaspista1827 manipular1858 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 67 The first Legion marched, accompanied with two Vexillary cohorts. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. iii. 142 These things moued Vespasian to assigne vnto those parts some Vexillary soldiers [L. vexillarios] out of the Legions. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales i. ix. 16 Certaine vexiliarie soldiers [L. vexillarii] which continued vnder ensignes, and were placed for a guarde to the countrey. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. IV. xvi. 212 This one he envelops, with vexillary soldiers. 2. Botany. Of aestivation: having the petals arranged so that the large, posterior vexillum encloses the other, smaller petals of the corolla. Also more generally: relating to or relating to a vexillum; having a vexillum. See vexillum n. 2. Cf. papilionaceous adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [adjective] > of flower-bud or aestivation quincuncial1672 valvate1829 induplicate1830 supervolute1832 vexillary1832 quincunxial1835 reduplicate1838 supervolutive1841 reduplicative1856 induplicative1864 indeterminate1880 1821 S. F. Gray Nat. Arrangem. Brit. Plants I. 103 Covering, vexillaris. When one of the pieces, folded inwardly on the middle rib, encloses all the others which are places opposite to each other.] 1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 411 Vexillary, when one piece is much larger than the others, and is folded over them, they being arranged face to face. 1862 W. H. Harvey & O. W. Sonder Flora Capensis II. 262 No vexillary stamen. 1882 H. Edmonds Elem. Bot. x. 114 We apply the term vexillary to the æstivation as seen in a papilionaceous plant. 1917 Standard Cycl. Hort. (ed. 2) I. 170/2 Vexillary, pertaining to the vexillum, standard or banner of a papilionaceous flower. 1997 Kew Bull. 52 690 The vexillary filament has a short, straight-toothed base. 2008 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 95 1349/2 In Duparquetia flowers the vexillary petal is exterior in bud. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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