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Catiline, a.
[ad. L. Catilīna.]
The name of a Roman who conspired against his country b.c. 63: sometimes taken as the type of a profligate conspirator. Hence Catiliˈnarian, † Catiˈlinary n. and a., † ˈCatilinism.
1592G. Harvey in Nashe Strange News Wks. 1883 II. 263. 1594 Bp. King Jonas (1618) 190 The..vncompassionate style of these Catilinary dispositions. 1611Cotgr., Catilinisme, Catilinisme, conspiracie. 1774Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. (1775) 71/1 Catalines at home who ought to be dragged forth to public disgrace and punishment. 1798G. Ellis in Anti-Jacobin 12 Feb. 65 The Catiline of modern times [Fox]. 1824J. H. Newman Cicero in Hist. Sketches (1872) II. 291 The eloquence of his Catilinarians and Philippics. Ibid. 292 The Catilinarian conspirators. 1875Symonds Renaiss. in Italy I. vi. 319 The Catilinarian riots of Tiburzio. 1889Skrine Mem. Thring 155 The senate which quelled the Catilinarians met in the Temple of Concord. 1925Glasgow Herald 16 Apr. 9 He is still a sort of Catilinarian doomed to reckless experiments. |