单词 | cacique |
释义 | caciquen. 1. In Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean: an indigenous chief or prince. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > native American cacique1555 werowance1588 sagamore1605 sachem1622 sachamaker1682 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. ii. f. 9 Makynge..a brotherly league with the Caccicus, (that is to saye a kynge). 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 208v These Indians gyue great honour and reuerence to theyr Cacique, (that is) theyr kynges and rulers. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 33 A cruel and cursed Cacike, that is to say a Lord, in whose power we fell. a1618 W. Raleigh Apol. Voy. Guiana 46 in Judicious & Sel. Ess. (1650) The Mynes which the Cassique Carapana offered them. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 124 They had a Casica too..but he could neither write nor speak Spanish. 1748 tr. P. Lozano True Relation Earthquake Lima iii. 226 The Kasik of Pisco coming to Lima to demand some goods. 1778 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (ed. 2) I. ii. 97 Here Columbus was visited by a prince or Cazique of the country. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 757 The several nations are governed by their chiefs or cachiques. 1799 R. B. Sheridan Pizarro i. i On yonder hill, among the palm-trees, we have surprised an old cacique. 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. ii. i. 226 The cacique who ruled over this province. 2. In Spain or Latin America: a man who owes his ascendancy to his power or influence; a political ‘boss’. Also attributive designating a political system in which the power is in the hands of such a man or men. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [adjective] > controlling party machine > controlled wire-pulled1841 cacique1872 society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > party machine > types of control of > one who jefe politico1820 caucuser1823 wire-puller1824 machine-man1834 wire-worker1835 cacique1872 boss1882 caucuseer1884 caucusian1886 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 71 The West India term Cacique..is often most absurdly applied..to mayors of New Mexican towns, and any somewhat pompous and self-sufficient man is apt to be nicknamed the Cacique of his town. 1923 Contemp. Rev. Nov. 613 The cacique whether an employer of labour or a moneylender has the majority of the constituency under his thumb. 1923 Glasgow Herald 13 Dec. 12 The whole cacique system is..an immense satire on local authority in Spain. 1964 Economist 4 July 37/2 The provincial caciques and city bosses. Derivatives caˈciqueship n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > party machine > types of control of > one who > position of spec. caciqueship1849 1849 Fraser's Mag. 40 411 The attainment of the caciqueship of that pseudo El Dorado by Gregor McGregor. ΚΠ 1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. v. v. 266 The caciquesses, or Indian women, who are married to the alcades..and others. caˈciquism n. (also ca'ciqueism) the cacique system. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > party machine > types of control of caucusing1788 wire-pulling1835 wire-working1835 bossism1881 boss-ship1882 bossdom1888 caciquism1903 stratarchy1950 1903 Times 3 June 3/5 Caciquism, the Spanish equivalent for the methods of Tammany. 1923 Glasgow Herald 23 Oct. 7 This decree,..of great importance for the destruction of ‘caciquism’, will be applied to about 500 towns. Draft additions June 2012 Any of various American blackbirds or orioles of (or formerly of) the genus Cacicus (family Icteridae), which are typically predominantly black, often with bright red or yellow patches, and gregarious and noisy, and are found from Mexico to South America. Formerly more fully cacique oriole. Cf. cassique n. 2. ΚΠ 1809 G. Shaw Zool. VIII. ii. 417 Like the Cacique Oriole, this species [sc. the Red-rumped Oriole] prefers building on such trees as overhang a river or lake. 1895 Argosy Nov. 182/1 In the collection are several nests of the caciques, or yellow tails. 1964 A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 563/2 In some of the larger forms, notably oropendolas and caciques, the culmen is expanded or swollen basally to form a conspicuous frontal shield or casque. 2009 J. A. Mobley Birds of World I. 13/2 Yellow-rumped caciques (Cacicus cela) in South America cluster their pendulous nests in huge colonies in large, isolated trees. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1555 |
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