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Stanhope|ˈstænhəʊp, ˈstænəp|
[f. the proper name Stanhope (see below).]
1. a. A light open one-seated vehicle, formerly made with two wheels, but subsequently commonly with four. First made for the Hon. and Rev. Fitzroy Stanhope (1787–1864). Often written with small initial.
1825C. M. Westmacott Engl. Spy I. 86 Or in a stanhope come it strong. 1837W. B. Adams Carriages 128 The two⁓wheeled carriage called a Stanhope is suspended on four of these springs. 1837Dickens Pickw. xl, The vehicle was not exactly a gig, neither was it a stanhope. 1891‘J. S. Winter’ Lumley 13 They found the Stanhope drawn by a big grey awaiting them.
b. Comb.: stanhope horse, one suitable for a stanhope; stanhope phaeton, a variety of the stanhope.
1836Sir G. Stephen Search of Horse ix. (1841) 137, I would suggest that the form of a stanhope horse be carefully considered. 1901Skrine Life Sir W. Hunter xiii. 245 He had purchased a Stanhope phaeton.
2. Stanhope lens, a lens of small diameter with two convex faces of different radii, inclosed in a metallic tube (Knight). Invented by Charles 3rd Earl Stanhope (1753–1816).
1850W. King Permian Fossils 143 In others..they [the punctures] cannot be detected so readily without a Stanhope lens. 1862J. Wylde's Circ. Sci. I. 65/1 A Stanhope lens of the ordinary form.
3. Stanhope press, a hand printing-press invented by the 3rd Earl Stanhope (1753–1816).
c1805Earl Stanhope in Collect. Ser. iii. (O.H.S.) 400 The high price of the Stanhope press (compared with that of the common wooden ones) has, by many, been considered as likely to check the sale of them. 1841Penny Cycl. XIX. 18/1 The accompanying diagram of the Stanhope press.
4. The name of the historian Philip Henry Stanhope (1805–75), 5th Earl Stanhope, used attrib. and absol. to designate the historical essay prize founded by him at Oxford University in 1855, or essays associated with this prize.
[1856Oxford Univ. Calendar 273 Earl Stanhope's Prize. In a Convocation holden on Friday, December 14, 1855, the following Regulations for a Prize founded by the Right Hon. Earl Stanhope, with a view to the full development and the continued growth and welfare of the School of Law and Modern History, and accepted by Convocation on the 20th day of June, 1855, were agreed upon.] 1861J. A. Symonds Let. 17 Apr. (1967) I. 285 Conington..declares the Stanhope to be about as much too long. Ibid. 1 June 296, I confess to being a little anxious myself about the Stanhope, though one ought never to be disturbed on account of Prizes. 1863Oxford Univ. Calendar 105 (heading) Stanhope historical essay. 1896J. Buchan in W. Buchan John Buchan (1982) iv. 81 Get the Newdigate. Get the Stanhope. 1915A. Huxley Let. 8 June (1969) 71, I may come up here in September to do some reading in Bodley for the Stanhope Prize. 1916Ibid. 18 June 101, I trust I don't have to read the Stanhope at the Encaenia. 1934Oxford Univ. Gaz. 21 Nov. 140/2 Stanhope Essay Prize, 1935. The subject for 1935 is ‘Edward, the Black Prince.’ 1976M. Green Children of Sun ii. 51 John Buchan..went to Oxford, where he won the Stanhope Essay Prize, the Newdigate Poetry Prize..and a first⁓class degree.
So Stanˈhopian a.
1808C. Stower Printer's Gram. 54 Judging from former times, when ligatures..were used, and abolished because they encumbered the compositor,..we much fear the Stanhopian introduction of an, in, of, &c. will not be found to meet with a much more favourable reception. Ibid. 302, 506. |