单词 | gentilitial |
释义 | gentilitialadj. 1. a. Of or relating to a particular lineage or gens (gens n. a); familial. Cf. gentile adj. 4. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > clan > [adjective] gentilitial1602 gentilitious1646 clannish1791 gentile1800 septal1842 1602 A. Copley Another Let. to Dis-iesuited Kinseman 32 The gentilitiall Puntoes he stands on being but a Coopers sonne. 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Oo4 The Casimires (for that is the gentilitiall name of the Count Palatines familie). 1786 J. C. Walker Hist. Mem. Irish Bards App. 10 The Irish preceded their neighbours in gentilitial armories. 1828 J. Hunter Hist. South Yorks. I. 32 Writers upon gentilitial insignia. 1949–51 Traditio 7 179 The Lapiritids claimed Chinese imperial descent and the gentilitial title of Čen-Bakur (later Jambakur). 2011 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 101 238 The purpose of gentilitial inheritance was to preserve family property. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > [adjective] > national ledelyc1275 ledishc1275 public1427 gentilea1522 national1591 gentilitious1632 gentilitian1645 gentilitial1650 gentilic1863 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 84 This figure of the Nose is now become gentilitial and native to the Persians. 1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. ii. v. ii. 370 The first [relation of God to the Hebrew nation] was that of a tutelary Deity, gentilitial and local. 1860 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 394 The law of Nations, like that of Nature, was long divine; a strife of gentilitial gods who absorbed each other gradually. c. Grammar. Of a noun, adjective, etc.: indicating the place, nation, tribe, etc., with which a person or thing is affiliated. Also of a suffix, etc.: forming words which indicate this. Cf. gentile adj. 3b. rare. ΚΠ 1877 G. Rawlinson Origin Nations ii. v. 218 Pathros, the local name, from which the gentilitial noun ‘Pathrusim’ is formed. 1971 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. No. 1. 2 In Semitic languages, except Akkadian, the gentilitial adjectives are formed by adding a suffix -i to the words from which they derive. 1998 Rassegna di Studi Etiopici 42 178 The Amharic nisbe or gentilitial suffix. 2. Of gentle birth; belonging to or characteristic of the gentry. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [adjective] > belonging to gentry genteel1628 gentilitial1798 country1827 gentish1994 1798 S. E. Brydges Arthur Fitz-Albini II. viii. 251 To the 'squires, and such as thought themselves of the gentilitial order, neither Fitz-Albini, nor Miss St. Leger, owed any attentions. a1875 R. Davies Walks through York (1880) 133 One of the most antient and distinguished of our Yorkshire gentilitial families. 1960 East & West 11 215/2 The influence of gentilitial charisma. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1602 |
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