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Elizabethan, a. and n.|ɪˌlɪzəˈbiːθən|
Also 9 Elizabethian.
[f. Elizabeth + -an.]
A. adj.
1. Belonging to the period of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603). Also, belonging to the period of Queen Elizabeth II (1952– ).
1807I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. (ed. 5) I. 388 The fashions of the Elizabethean age have been chronicled by honest John Stowe. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. II. xxii. 166 Daniel, one of the golden writers of our golden Elizabethian age. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 261 This glorious Elizabethan Era. 1887J. W. Hales 3 Elizab. Comedies in Macm. Mag. May 61/2 He is..never to flog him the [pupil] when he cannot say his lesson—a peculiar hardship to an Elizabethan teacher. 1957D. J. Enright Apothecary's Shop 235 The ‘New Elizabethan’ theme, cooking in the minds of statesmen, leads to nothing more glorious than the devastation of an Arab quarter.
2. Of dress, furniture, architecture: In the style in vogue during the period of Queen Elizabeth I. Also of language, literary form, etc.
1823Lamb Elia 190 What a collegiate aspect has that fine Elizabethan hall. 1840Hood Up Rhine 307 A large Elizabethan ruff. 1869Daily News 15 Mar., In the drama ‘Lady Grace,’ the contrast between modern manners and Elizabethan language is rather incongruous. 1874Parker Goth. Archit. i. ii. 20 The Elizabethan style..is a mixture of the old English and the ruder Italian of the Renaissance.
B. n. A person (esp. a poet or dramatist) of the period of Queen Elizabeth I. Chiefly pl. Also, a person of the period of Queen Elizabeth II.
1859D. Masson Life Milton I. 69 The..literature of England would be represented to Milton, in the year 1624, by that cluster of..men..who had been already named ‘the Elizabethans’. 1881Athenæum 12 Nov. 623/3 The murders and adulteries that..had pleased the Elizabethans. 1882Grosart Spenser's Wks. III. Introd. 62 Our Elizabethans, Lodge and Greene especially. 1884Athenæum 22 Mar. 386/2 The savage sublimity of the Elizabethans. 1953F. E. Halliday in R. Carew Surv. Cornwall 11 It still remains..one of the best accounts that we possess of life in Elizabethan England, a quality that should appeal to Elizabethans of the new age. |