单词 | ethnarch |
释义 | ethnarchn. A ruler, a governor, a national leader; spec. (a) Ancient History a governor of a Jewish kingdom or province under the Roman Empire; (b) a head of an Eastern Orthodox church with political as well as spiritual leadership. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > [noun] grievec950 warden1297 presidenta1382 procuratora1382 governora1393 seneschalc1400 lieutenant1423 promissary?c1500 governator1522 provincial1590 ethnarch1602 state governor1608 proconsul1650 stadholder1704 superintendent1758 meridarch1866 prez.1919 1602 T. Lodge tr. Josephus Wks. 459 (note) Caesar maketh Archelaus an Ethnarque, & bestoweth the one halfe of the kingdome on Philip and Antipas. 1612 W. Strachey Lawes Ded. sig. A3v It hath appeared most necessary vnto our present Ethnarches Deputy Gouernor Sir Thomas Dale knight Marshall, not onely to [etc.]. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) ii. 95 They [sc. the Jews] had their Ethnarchs, Toparchs, high-Priests, Rulers, Princes, and sometime Kings of their owne. 1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. iv Cæsar..did not appoint a King over them [sc. the Jews], but a Governour, whom they called an Ethnarch. 1730 R. Millar Hist. Church under Old Test. iv. 501 Archelaus the son of Herod the Great was but only an Ethnarch. 1778 E. Apthorp Lett. Prevalence Christianity 210 Julius Cæsar..authorized Hyrcanus and his children to be ethnarchs of the Jews. 1838 W. Herbert Attila 284 (note) This chagawn had conquered the Ethnarch of the Abdeli, called Nephalites. 1878 tr. K. Paparrigopoulos Mod. Hellenism 16 The Patriarch, who was invested with judicial and administrative functions, and bore the title of Head of the Roman nation, or Ethnarch, was to the Christians of the East a political as well as spiritual chief. 1913 B. H. Alford Jewish Hist. & Lit. under Maccabees & Herod i. 11 While the lord of Antioch remained king par excellence, the lord of Jerusalem became as a king under the name of Ethnarch, reserved for lesser royalties. 1956 Life 26 Mar. 25/1 The rebel Cypriotes, leaderless following exile of their spiritual and political ethnarch, struck back with stonings, arson, and murder. 1999 Guardian 1 July i. 22/3 He was now virtually the ethnarch of all Armenians in the diaspora. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1602 |
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