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Englishman|ˈɪŋglɪʃmən|
[f. English + man.]
1. a. A man who is English by descent, birth, or naturalization. The historical senses of course follow those of English a.; in mod. use, unless otherwise determined by context (as in Englishman by descent, naturalized Englishman), the word means one born in England or of English parents.
c950Laws of æthelstan i. prm. (Thorpe), Ic wille ðæt ᵹe fedaþ ealle wæᵹa an earm Engliscmon. c1205Lay. 1973 Ah Engliscemen [c 1275 Englissemen] hit habbed awend. a1300Cursor M. 242 (Gött.) Of ingland þe nacione Er englijs men in comune. 1387Trevisa Higden 33 To calle the men of the londe englisshmen. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxli. 267 Thurugh helpe and comfort of our englysshmen. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cvii. 129 Ther was no Englysshman of armes, but that had ii. or iii. prisoners. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. iii. 309 Though banish'd, yet a true-borne Englishman. 1624Bedell Lett. iv. 80 Many Englishmen, conuertentur ad Dominum Deum. 1701De Foe True-born Eng. i. 310 Englishman's the common Name for all. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest ii, That Englishman that used to come with his master to our house. 1863Lond. Rev. 10 Jan. 35/2 A thoroughly vulgar Englishman is as offensive an animal as the human mind can well imagine.
b. Englishman's foot (American): see quot.
1687Clayton Virginia in Phil. Trans. XLI. 145 Our Plantain..they call the Englishman's-foot. 1861Mrs. Lankester Wild Flowers 109 Plantain..has been named, by the natives in some of our settlements, ‘the Englishman's Foot’.
2. An English ship.
1823J. F. Cooper Pilot xxxiii, Griffith saw his own ship borne away from the Englishman. 1885W. C. Russell Strange Voyage I. iv. 36 She was not an Englishman, though I really forget the nationality of the colour she flew at the peak. |