grandadj.n.adv.
/ɡrand/, U.S. /ɡrænd/ A. adj.† 4. With reference to physical size: large, big. Obsolete. rare.
1. Of an event, action, plan, achievement, etc.
a. Chiefly with the or a demonstrative: great or important above all others of the kind; chief, main, major.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > most important > events
grandc1390
of one's life1862
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > most important > of things > other
sovereignc1340
chief1377
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staple1615
c1390 (c1350) in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 194 And þenne boþe bodi and soule i-fere Schal wende to the graunt Mangere [a1450 Cambr. gret mangere].
1565 B. Garter Tragicall Hist. Two Eng. Louers f. 39 And of their graund comyssion gins this their tale to tell.
1598 T. Ingmethorpe Serm. 2 John Ep. Ded. You have enameld as it were..that graundbenefite with infinite other kindnesses.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xxviii. 55 That gran Universall-fire, which shall happen at the day of judgment.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vii. §11 The time was not yet come wherein the grand mystery of mans salvation by the death of the Son of God was to be revealed.
c1680 W. Beveridge Serm. (1729) I. 374 This first and grand promise was absolutely made to all mankind.
1728 J. Swift Intelligencer (1729) ix. 82 The Noblest Blood of England having been shed in the grand Rebellion.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Elixir An Universal Medicine, which shall cure all Diseases, called by Way of Excellence the Grand Elixir.
1739 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 179 The grand article of my expense is food.
1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 184 Evincing, as she [Nature] makes The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God.
1849 E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 10 The grand want is that of dams across the principal streams.
1889 J. Bennett Billiards (ed. 5) v. 41 But if so played, and this is the grand point, position is lost.
1916 G. Saintsbury Peace of Augustans i Defoe had done a great deal; but nothing in the direction of his two grand achievements—the periodical and the novel.
1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 6/2 They urge more schooling as the grand cure for corrupt politics, although it is obvious that mere schooling may only enlarge the means of roguery.
1994 R. Samuel Theatres of Memory (2012) i. 130 The ruling fear was overcrowding and tuberculosis, and the grand solution was fresh air.
b. Preceded by the indefinite article, or with plural noun: of first-rate magnitude, value, or importance.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective] > very excellent or first-rate
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prime1402
rare1483
grand1542
holy1599
pre-excelling1600
paregal1602
classic1604
of (the) first rate1650
solary1651
first rate1674
superb1720
tip-top1722
tip-top-gallant1730
swell1819
topping1822
of the first (also finest, best, etc.) water1826
No. 11829
brag1836
A11837
A No. 11838
number one1839
awful1843
bully1851
first class1852
class1867
champion1880
too1881
tipping1887
alpha plus1898
bonzer1898
grade A1911
gold star1917
world-ranking1921
five-star1936
too much1937
first line1938
vintage1939
supercolossal1947
top1953
alpha1958
fantabulous1959
beauty1963
supercool1965
world-class1967
primo1973
1542 T. Becon Newes out of Heauen sig. D.i All this is come to passe thorowe Gods grande mercies by the glorious natiuite & moost blessed byrth of his welbeloued son Iesus Christe.
1578 M. Jennings tr. E. de Maisonneufve Gerileon of Englande i. f. 5v The kyng..pursued her as fast as his Horse would runne a grande gallop.
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. v. 92 The last and woorst sort giue, but they giue to gaine. Iason gaue Antiochus the king a graund summe of money. But he knewe the office of the high Priest to be well woorth it.
1611 S. Hieron Spirituall Sonne-ship 12 These and the like be the grand imployments of the times.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 70 No grand Alteration here below, but..she [the moon] must be made Author of it.
1691 J. Dryden Let. Sir G. Etherege in Hist. Adolphus 77 In grand Affairs thy days are spent In waging weighty Complement, With such as Monarchs represent.
1707–8 G. Berkeley Philos. Comm. (1989) 105 The not distinguishing twixt Will & Ideas is a Grand Mistake wth Hobbs.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xi. 72 You have united this country against you on one grand constitutional point.
1842 E. Miall in Nonconformist 2 2 We declared the establishment to be a grand imposture.
1850 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1872) 3rd Ser. ii. 25 So then..vice is nothing more than a grand imprudence.
1870 J. B. Brown First Princ. Eccl. Truth 264 It would be a grand mistake to say that Christianity created feudalism.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 179 A grand movement of water from the polar towards the equatorial regions.
1891 Law Times 90 419/2 The old reticence of the Bench was a grand safeguard of its dignity.
1994 R. F. Noss & A. Y. Cooperrider Saving Nature's Legacy vi. 209 Building campgrounds and concessions at..sensitive sites within Yellowstone National Park was a grand mistake.
2012 Time 17 Dec. 27/3 There's the possibility for a grand compromise here.
c. Designating a comprehensive unity in relation to its constituent portions; overall. Also figurative. Now chiefly in grand sum n., grand total n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > [adjective] > constituting or comprising a whole > designating a comprehensive unity
grand1548
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John xii. f. lxxxiii Wherfore thei did not atchieue and accomplishe this mischieuous acte, before they had the graund consent of the Phariseis, the scribes, the priestes and the auncient rewlers.
1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 2 I wyll expresse and declare in due order, the grand and generall kinde of Englishe Dogges, the difference of them [etc.].
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. iii. 8 The christian world it selfe being deuided into two graund parts.
1782 W. Gilpin Observ. River Wye ii. 8 Every view on a river, thus circumstanced [with steep banks], is composed of four grand parts; the area, which is the river itself; the two side-screens, which are the opposite banks, and mark the perspective; and the front-screen, which points out the winding of the river.
1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 506/1 We love him because he existed, and was himself. This is the grand sum-total of the impression.
1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover v. 63 All the many busy and important little things that make up the grand sum-total of nothingness!
2014 R. L. Wolke What Einstein didn't Know (ed. 2) vii. 201 Nature's grand bottom line is that if the balance between energy and..entropy is proper, it will happen; if it is not, it won't.
d. colloquial. Involving all available resources or people; full-blown, full-scale.Sometimes with overtones of sense A. 8a.
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1802 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 3 Jan. (1959) I. 100 She had a grand cleaning day twice a week.
1818 J. Bentham Church-of-Englandism 123 Exhausted by that same grand effort, the stock of thanksgivers is gone.
1850 String of Pearls 443 She was half inclined to make a grand rush herself to the nearest public-house.
1903 Outlook 7 Nov. 586 He had blown in all his earnings in a grand frolic.
1952 F. L. Mott News in Amer. xiii. 137 There was a grand rush for the telephones in the press-room and for taxis and cars.
1998 B. Kingsolver Poisonwood Bible (1999) iii. 266 Then with a grand heave-ho we shoved the bed away from the wall.
2. Of a person or place: distinguished, prominent; famous, renowned. Only as the Grand, following a name; = great adj. 13b(c), great adj. 17c. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > [adjective] > as epithet of person, city, or country
the Grand1426
society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [adjective] > specific epithets for persons of rank
goodOE
worshipful1398
the Greata1413
the Grand1426
honourablea1440
Right Honourable?1449
granda1460
Hon'ble?1541
Hon.1587
Right Hon.1587
Rt. Hon.1660
magnificent1717
1426 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 190 (MED) John Assh, atte Cristophore ny seynt Martyns þe graund.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 5668 Baxe, Bayon, & Burdeux & Bretayn þe graunt.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope 2 He was..borne in grece not ferre fro Troye the graunt.
?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. Bvi Theodose the graunte.
1683 J. Bulteel tr. F. E. de Mézeray Gen. Chronol. Hist. France 164 Count Porhouet, named Mathued, who had married a Daughter of Alain's the Grand, went into England with his Wife.
1824 J. Lawrence On Nobility Brit. Gentry in Pamphleteer 24 197 Gros, in ancient French, meant grand; thus Charles le Gros, meant Charles the Grand.
1855 Harper's Mag. June 12/2 Snuff-taking originated with the people of France, and was the most fashionable folly of the court of Louis the Grand.
1902 E. Hough Mississippi Bubble xv. 284 There was to be established one more ruling point for the arms of Louis the Grand.
2010 M. Mercer Medieval Gentry v. 80 Forced to find sanctuary at St Martin-the-Grand.
3. Law. Of an action, an agent, a tribunal, a custom, etc.: principal, chief; of the more important kind, major. Opposed to petty or common. Earliest in grand serjeanty: see Compounds 2. Now chiefly in certain fixed collocations, esp. grand theft and also grand jury n. at jury n. 2b and grand larceny n. at Compounds 2.grand assize, cape, compounder, distress, inquest, etc.: see the nouns.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [adjective] > great, principal, or chief
grand1449
1449 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) V. 167/2 His Auncestres..have holden..the Manoir..by Graunte Sergeaunte.
c1523 J. Rastell Expos. Terminorum Legum Anglorum sig. G.ii Treason is in two maners that is to say graund treason and petyt treason as it is ordeynyd by the statutz.
1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 1 §5 Such as be of the Grand Company of every Inn of Chancery.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. 31 In the grand-leetes and solemne elections of Magistrates, everie man had not prerogative alike.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 310/1 Grand Rogues have sometimes their Ears Nailed to the Pillory.
1757 Parl. Hist. Eng. XX. 235 What was meet to be adjudged Treason in a free Commonwealth, and what was meet to be the Punishment of Grand and Petty Treason.
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. ix. iii. vii. 171 The grand theft consequently, when properly punished, that is, properly pardoned, leaves the veracity unimpaired: the petty theft (till a late statute came in aid) destroyed the veracity beyond recovery.
1839 G. L. Craik & C. Macfarlane Pict. Hist. Eng. II. vi. i. 414 They would not speak to Forster of the murder, but kept to the grand treason of co-operating with the English army of invasion.
1974 Star-News (Pasadena, Calif.) 14 June a6/4 Judge Schifferman said the purse-taking amounted to grand theft from one's person, and that under the law the resulting death was second degree murder.
2010 Independent 28 Jan. 11/2 12 felony charges, among them multiple counts of grand theft, forgery, embezzlement, obtaining money by false pretences and falsifying corporate books.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective]
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mickleeOE
greateOE
mucha1154
mainc1275
boldc1300
fadec1330
largec1392
tallc1430
big1444
masterfula1450
grand1452
largy1558
fine1590
bonnya1600
large-sized1628
roomly1682
lumping?1706
maun1743
strapping1827
barn door1829
serious1843
jumboesque1893
jumbo1897
economy-sized1930
L1942
jumbo-size1949
economy size1950
1452 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 88 (MED) Graunt fflaupaut [read fflanpant] departid.
5.
a. Chiefly in official titles: chief over others with the same general title; highest in rank or office. Now chiefly with reference to foreign countries and in titles of office in social fraternities.See also grand captain n., Grand Duke n., Grand Falconer at falconer n.1 2, Grand Inquisitor at inquisitor n. 3b, grand master n., Grand Pensionary at pensionary n.1 2b, grand vizier at vizier n. 2a.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [adjective] > specific epithets for persons of rank
goodOE
worshipful1398
the Greata1413
the Grand1426
honourablea1440
Right Honourable?1449
granda1460
Hon'ble?1541
Hon.1587
Right Hon.1587
Rt. Hon.1660
magnificent1717
a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 1189 (MED) The graunt Tribune..With discipline of armys holde hem vndir Seuerously.
1577 J. Dee Gen. Mem. Arte Nauig. 3 An exact Hydrographer, Pylot-Maior, Arche-Pylot, or Grand-Pylot-Generall of such an Incomparable Ilandish Monarchy, as, this Brytish Impire hath bene.
1610 Bible (Douay) II. 1 Macc. xii. 20 To Onias the grandpriest [L. sacerdoti magno].
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 738 Cabot..was constituted Grand Pilot of England by King Edward the sixt.
a1704 T. Brown Declam. Praise Poverty (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1730) I. 101 It [sc. Homer's poem] was..to stir his countrymen up against the exorbitant power of the Asiatick Grand Monarch.
1708 London Gaz. No. 4429/6 Letters from Warsaw..say, That at the desire of the Grand General, and other Confederate Senators [etc.].
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) In the French Polity and Customs, are divers Officers thus denominated, which we frequently retain in English; as Grand Almoner, Grand Ecuyer, Grand Chambellan, Grand Voyer, &c.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 54 In the king's presence and under the direction of his grand justiciary.
1772 in W. Smith Ahiman Rezon (1783) iii. 95 Received and read the resolutions of the Grand Lodge of England, transmitted by their Grand Secretary, Brother William Dickey.
1795 A. Anderson Narr. Brit. Embassy China vii. 87 The grand mandarin of the place sent to inform the Ambassador that [etc.].
1855 R. W. Emerson Misc. 136 A grand marshal.
1898 Argosy Apr. 83 The city being governed really by his chief minister, the grand chamberlain, and the duchess, who were at daggers drawn.
1947 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 11 Jan. 9/2 He has been Grand Polemarch of the Kappa Alpha Psi, one of the leading fraternities in the country.
2004 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 11 Jan. ii. 7/3 Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, a leader of the majority Shiite population, held firm on a fatwa he had issued in June.
b. In the titles of sovereigns, chiefly in Asia and Africa. Now historical.Earliest in the Grand Turk at Turk n.1 2c.See also the Grand Mogul at Mogul n.1 1a, grand signior n., Grand Sophy at Sophy n.1 1.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [adjective] > specific epithets for persons of rank > for royalty or other exalted personages
grandc1526
serenea1550
most religious1567
sacred1600
serenissimous1623
serenissime1624
super-illustrious1630
c1526 Sir T. Clifford Let. 18 Oct. in Camden Misc. (1992) XXXI. 72 The Grande Turke hath beseged the kyng of Hungry.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xix. sig. R.vv Both Prester Iohns land & the graund Canis to.
1606 R. Knolles tr. J. Bodin Six Bks. Common-weale ii. ii. 205 That of Aethiopia..whereunto are subiect fiftie kings as slaues.., who all are, and tearme themselues the slaues of the Grand Negus of Aethiopia.
1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron II. viii. ix. f. 92 Gomedra, in the Grand Chams language, signifies Empresse in ours.
1674 tr. P. M. de la Martinière New Voy. Northern Countries Table of Contents sig. A5 The Authors departure from Potzora, to go into Siberia, his meeting with five persons of quality sent thither into exile by the grand Czar.
1705 A. Chaves tr. Sieur de La Croix Wars Turks with Poland 121 This Dispatch of the Grand Czar is for you, Sultan Mahomet.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 461 The Hospodars, or princes of Wallachia and Moldavia, pay very large sums to the Grand Sultan for their dignities.
1842 tr. J.-P. Brès Social Amusem. (new ed.) vi. 200 Over all the kingdom are heard the words, ‘The grand Negus has sneezed! He has sneezed!’
1999 J. Raban Passage to Juneau vi. 341 Columbus stepped ashore on the island of San Salvador with an Arabic interpreter, hoping to be shown the way to the stone city of the Grand Khan.
2012 S. Zandi-Sayek Ottoman Izmir iv. 174 Long live the Grand Sultan!
6. † b. Eminent; great in reputation, position, scale of operations, etc. Obsolete.
a. Modifying the designation of a person: pre-eminent, chief; supremely deserving of the appellation. Now rare.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > pre-eminence > [adjective] > specifically of people
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1539 R. Taverner tr. W. Capito Summe 150 Psalmes sig. H.vv The graund enemye Satan [L. criminatorem satanam] wyth hys ympes and complices subdued.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xvi. ii. 471 The grandfoole their ghostlie father.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. vi. 19 The grand conspirator Abbot of Westminster. View more context for this quotation
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor ii. i. sig. Fv Thou Grand Scourge; or, Second Vntrusse of the time. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Richard III (1623) iv. iv. 53 That excellent grand Tyrant of the earth.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 159 To conquer Sin and Death the two grand foes. View more context for this quotation
1686 A. Wood Life 10 Aug. On the same morning on which he died..his only sister..was married..shewing herself thereby either a grand fool or a grand beast.
1778 R. James Diss. Fevers (ed. 8) 32 Doth it not expel the Grand Enemy from every stronghold with irresistible force?
1839 Times 18 July 4/5 The two grand conspirators against all free and rational government throughout Europe.
2013 Daily Trust (Abuja, Nigeria) (Nexis) 29 Dec. Having accepted favours from her dad.., Iyabo would be a grand fool,..if she now chooses to openly disgrace the same father.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > of high or great importance
worthlyeOE
mickleeOE
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right hand?c1225
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materialc1475
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materious1611
moliminous1642
momentous1656
magic1696
all-important1748
big1748
eventful1756
colossal1775
bread and butter1822
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key1832
all-absorbing1834
earth-moving?1834
earth-shaking1835
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high-ranking1874
beaucoup1917
major league1951
earth-stopping1956
crucial1957
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > famous or eminent person > [adjective]
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solemna1387
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parent?c1450
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heroical?a1475
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1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 105 The graunde theues leden the petie theef to warde.
?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 67 The garrison of the olde grande warriers [L. ueteranorum præsidium].
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 507 And forth In order came the grand infernal Peers. View more context for this quotation
1742 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 4) I. 10 I have heard a great Maltster that lived towards Ware say, he knew a grand Brewer, that melted near 200 Quarters a week.
7. With reference to great physical extent and corresponding importance: main, principal.
a. gen. Now rare.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > of large volume or bulky > and impressive
statelya1450
grand1595
1595 A. Hartwell tr. G. T. Minadoi Hist. Warres Turkes & Persians ii. 60 The Riuer Cirus, the graund waterer of all this region.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiii. 840 In the grand Cirque [L. in maximo circo] or shew place.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. xii. 10 I was of late as petty to his ends, As is the Morn[e]-dew on the Mertle leafe To his grand Sea. View more context for this quotation
1708 London Gaz. No. 4478/2 In order to drain the Ditch before the Grand Breach..Getting all things in a Readiness for the Passage of the Grand Ditch.
1753 B. Franklin Let. Sept. in New Exper. & Observ. Electr. (1754) 127 May not..the small electrised clouds..rise up to the main body, and by that means occasion so large a vacancy, as that the grand cloud cannot strike in that place?
1858 Harper's Mag. Jan. 151/2 The grand river-pass and the towering heights of the Storm King in the south must be seen, and seen again.
1858 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (new ed.) vii. §424 A recurrency in the deep water in the middle of the Gut that sets outward to the grand ocean.
1908 19th Cent. Jan. 128 From the base of this tusk of land the grand river front of new Khartoum stretches.
2014 Afr. News (Nexis) 18 Feb. The authorities have already relocated the health centre and the grand market of the camp.
b. Used in proper names of notable waterways, squares, buildings, etc. (originally, and still occasionally, anglicized from Italian, Spanish, or French), especially in Grand Canal. Hence used in commercial names, as Grand Junction Canal, Grand Union Canal, Grand Trunk Railway, Grand Hotel, etc.In names adopted by commercial enterprises, the choice of grand instead of great was probably suggested by the associations of sense A. 10.
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1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 60v Much is reported of the Graund Canale in Venice, for that the fronts on eyther side are so gorgeous.
1616 T. Gainsford Rich Cabinet 117 Some comicall showes on their Grand-Canal: Amongst which, the rarest that euer I sawe, was a costly and ostentous triumphe, called a Regatto, presented on the Grand-Canal, to entertaine the Princes of Piedmont and Mantua.
a1661 R. Bargrave Trav. Diary (1999) 196 Here is the famous Race of furious Bulls, which the Nobles of Madrid, on diverse Festivalls, encounter: upon theyr stately Ginnetts, with theyr Swords & Javelines, in the Grand Placa.
1792 Times 24 Aug. 1/1 Braunston Grand Junction Canal. To be disposed of Ten Subscription Shares.
1839 Mechanics' Mag. 16 Feb. 344/1 Mr. Green furnishes the particulars of a boat-lift, or a substitute for a lock, as used on the Grand Western Canal.
1855 Harper's Mag. July 180/2 Simultaneously, bodies of riflemen on both sides began to force their way through the streets toward the Grand Plaza, which served as the Mexican head-quarters.
1862 J. Francis Hist. Bank Eng. 455 Tenders invited by the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada for £1,111,500 second six per cent. preference bonds at 80.
1866 G. A. Sala Trip to Barbary 93 In front of the Grand Hotel gather group after group.
1903 T. Okey Venice & its Story ii. v. 264 We may disembark at the square portal,..which opens on the Grand Canal just beyond the rio.
1935 Nankai Social & Econ. Q. 8 250 The boat people of the Grand Canal between Tung Hsien of Hopei and Hangchow of Chekiang.
a1954 N. Coward Compl. Lyrics (1998) 272/2 She sat in the Grand Piazza.
1994 J. Farman Suspiciously Simple Hist. Sci. & Invention (new ed.) vi. 105 The first hotel ever, Low's Grand Hotel, was built in Covent Garden and became famous for its grub.
c. Of a specified part of a building (such as a gateway, an entrance, a staircase, etc.), chiefly one that is magnificent in size and adornment (and hence with an admixture of sense A. 8b).
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1641 J. Johnson Acad. Love 76 This is the grand entrance to the Schooles of Mathematicks, which hath many ports.
1695 R. Graham Short Acct. Eminent Painters in J. Dryden tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica 346 Having adorn'd the grand Stair-case of the Escurial, with the Story of the Battel of St. Quintin.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xxxiv. 207 They were then lining the grand salloon with Silesia marble.
1788 F. Grose Mil. Antiq. II. 336 The grand entrance was mostly through a gate flanked by two large and strong towers, with a projection over the passage, called a machicolation.
1806 R. Cumberland Mem. ii. 154 The bas-relieves at the back of the grand altar.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxii. 789 The Swedish Minister alighted at the grand entrance.
1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage xlv On the grand staircase there were rows of exotic plants in boxes.
1906 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 2nd vi. vi. 282 In addition to the grand entrance..there is a covert little ‘chair-door’..for sedans only.
1957 Speculum 32 68 His tomb was near that of Hugh at the left of the grand altar of the abbey church.
1966 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 25 287/1 To gain access to this space the grand stairs were rebuilt narrower to allow passageway at either side and around them.
2012 Hume Moreland Leader (Victoria, Austral.) (Nexis) 8 Feb. 5 The lavish living-rooms, beautiful bay windows and grand staircase are eye-openers.
8.
a. Of a ceremony, public performance, or the like: characterized by great solemnity, splendour, or display; conducted with great formality or on a large or lavish scale. Also occasionally in trivial or ironic use.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > splendour, magnificence, or pomp > [adjective]
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1622 T. Adams Eirenopolis 59 In all our graund Feasts, the guestes that Christ spoke for, are left out.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 166 When the King goes..to the grand chase [Fr. à la grande chasse], he takes along abundance of Pioneers, to stop up the Avenues.
1735 London Daily Post 21 Apr. On Thursday last..was held the Annual Grand Feast of Free and Accepted Masons.
1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 181 His apparel was now finished, and ready for the grand day.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) vii. 66 ‘The grand match is played to-day, I believe,’ said Mr. Pickwick.
1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage xlvii The last grand entertainment of the fashionable season being over.
1867 C. M. Yonge Cameos lxxxi, in Monthly Packet Jan. 14 The last Parliament had been a very grand one.
1893 F. J. Furnivall in Three Kings' Sons Forewords 6 There are grand wedding festivities.
1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 9 The aboriginal owners of the land, except during the dispersing seasons, were about as happy as the kangaroos before a grand hunt.
1934 J. B. Priestley Eng. Journey vi You stand up to toast your dead comrades; the moment is solemn and grand.
1991 J. Chang Wild Swans (1993) ix. 236 Ordinary people would often bankrupt themselves to lay on a grand ceremony—and my grandmother loved Dr Xia and wanted to do him proud.
2000 K. Shamsie Salt & Saffron (2001) iv. 34 The zenana where the women schemed.., befriended each other, complained about men, teased the eunuchs, and conducted grand affairs with each other.
b. Of a person, his or her belongings or surroundings, or a group of people: fine, splendid, gorgeously dressed or furnished. Also more widely: giving evidence of wealth or high social position; recognized as belonging to, or characteristic of, high society.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > splendour > [adjective] > magnificent
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1673 Remarques on Humours of Town 41 They require not of a Novitiate so great a capacity, and such mighty undertakings as the grander societies.
1759 Gentleman's Mag. June 264/1 Then came a grand carriage, covered with a superb canopy.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. iv. 72 They usually rode out together in the grandest equipage that had been seen in the country for many years.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair li. 452 The mothers grand,..sumptuous, solemn, and in diamonds.
1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage xlii A forced adieu to fine houses, grand company, and the Grimaldi Club?
1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges iii. 155 She [sc. Queen Charlotte] was..a very grand lady on state occasions, simple enough in ordinary life.
1870 Parish Mag. (St. Andrew's, Litchurch, Derby) 2 Parker's, the grand grocers in the market-place with the large plate-glass windows,..and the row of smart, obliging young men in white aprons.
1929 E. Hemingway Farewell to Arms iv. xxxv. 272 The hotel was very big and grand and empty but the food was good.
1976 I. Murdoch Henry & Cato i. 22 At the south end of it there are grand houses, some of the smartest houses in town.
2005 Independent 18 June 13/1 This very grand literary couple puffed away, rather marvellously, on baggy, brown rollies.
c. Used sarcastically: having a high opinion of one's own status; high and mighty.
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1798 Lady S. Napier Let. 24 Apr. in G. Campbell Edward & Pamela Fitzgerald (1904) xiii. 148 When Mrs. Farrel began to be grand and to want to go back to Lady Powerscourt, Lady Moira gave her a good scold.
1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 47 I found her not At all. She is too grand to see me now.
1942 E. Ferber Saratoga Trunk (new ed.) i. 26 She and Nicholas were very grand and stayed by themselves.
2003 S. Brown Free Gift Inside! 205 Others reported that Rowling had reportedly become too big for her boots and was much too grand to report to reporters.
9. Music. Originally: (esp. of a chorus) full-toned and exuberant; (subsequently, in weakened sense) imposing. Later: (esp. of a sonata, concerto, etc.) on a large scale, substantial. Now historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [adjective] > style of composition
grandc1666
romantic1836
routinier1837
parodistic1845
rococo1868
virtuose1873
virtuosic1879
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polymorphous1890
monothematic1894
rococo1904
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non-thematic1946
minimalistic1947
stochastic1958
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post-minimal1971
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c1666 M. Locke (Bodl. MS Mus. c.23) f. 24 (title) Grand Chorus Before and after the Song of Thanksgiving.
1675 M. Locke Eng. Opera 61 (heading) Grand Chorus and Dance, with all the Instruments.
1749 Descr. Machine for Fireworks 8 After a grand Overture of Warlike Instruments, composed by Mr. Handel, a Signal is given for the Commencement of the Firework.
1775 ‘J. Collier’ Musical Trav. (ed. 2) 65 Hearing a grand chorus of vocal and instrumental music, among which I plainly distinguished..the English horn.
1799 A. F. C. Kollmann Ess. Pract. Musical Composition iv. 20 A Concerto..consists of Tuttis, in which it resembles a Symphony, and of Solos that are like the principal passages of a grand Sonata.
1825 Harmonicon Jan. 2/1 List of Dussek's chief works... 44. The Farewell, a Grand Sonata, dedicated to Clementi.
1887 W. Beatty-Kingston Music & Manners I. xii. 353 Another of the ‘numbers’ was Mendelssohn's Grand Concerto (pianoforte and orchestra) in G minor.
1954 A. Loesser Men, Women & Pianos xvi. 256 Wölfl in 1808 composed a Grand sonata, Opus 41, which he subtitled ‘Non Plus Ultra’.
1991 J. Caldwell Oxf. Hist. Eng. Music I. ix. 517 The ‘song’ proper (‘The King shall rejoice’, Ps. 21) is framed by a ‘grand chorus’ setting the last verse of the same psalm, ‘Be thou exalted’.
10. With reference to emotional effect.† b. Of a person: imposing owing to the nobility of his or her moral or intellectual character. Also: (with reference to appearance or manner) stately, noble, dignified. Obsolete.Now merged in sense A. 8b.
a. Of an idea, composition, design, etc.: lofty and dignified in conception, treatment, or expression; conceived or planned in a large and majestic manner. See also grand manner n., grand style n. at Compounds 2.
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the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > aesthetic quality or good taste > [adjective] > pleasing to the aesthetic sense > specific
grand1668
idyllian1716
picturesque1756
idyllic1856
idyllical1885
1668 J. Glanvill Plus Ultra v. 38 Astronomy, one of the grandest and most magnifique of all those that lie within the compass of Natural Inquiry.
1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal v. 42 I'l shew you the greatest Scene that ever England saw... I'l justifie it to be as grand to the eye every whit, I gad, as that great Scene in Harry the Eight, and grander too, I gad.
1728 E. Young Ocean 42 A voice has flown From Britain's throne To reinflame a grand design.
1758 S. Hayward Seventeen Serm. xvi. 469 A variety of the most grand similitudes.
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 678 Be most sublimely good, verbosely grand, And with poetic trappings grace thy prose.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 118 It is not clear, whether in England we learned those grand and decorous principles, and manners..from you, or whether you took them from us. View more context for this quotation
1814 Meteor Apr. 409 The beauteous ideas, the grand and elevated thoughts I have conceived in my mind.
1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire iii. 32 The grand vision of a universal Christian Empire was utterly lost in the isolation.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 16 The Laws..contain a few passages which are very grand and noble.
1930 A. Bennett Imperial Palace xliii. 310 A grand climacteric of display designed orgiastically to receive the New Year into the infinite succession of years.
1960 E. H. Gombrich Art & Illusion ii. v. 152 The grand classical manner of narrative painting died a natural death in the eighteenth century.
2006 Independent 13 May 45/4 And last October..he showed his latest works, dark, possibly troubled but so ‘done’. They looked majestic and grand.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > [adjective]
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1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode v. i. 84 Since he is a King, methinks he has assum'd another figure: he looks so grand, and so August.
1735 Present State Republick Lett. 15 35 His [sc. Milton's] Genius was grand, solid, prodigiously extensive, and exceeding fine; every thing of this breaks out, and shines forth conspicuously in all his Writings.
1774 J. Patsall in tr. Quintilian Inst. Orator II. xii. i. 359 Does not Virgil seem to give us an idea of such a grand personage in him?
1832 Ld. Tennyson Sisters vi He look'd so grand when he was dead.
1848 J. R. Lowell in Holden's Dollar Mag. (N.Y.) Sept. 569/2 Now thou'rt thy plain grand self again, Thou art secure from panegyric.
1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith i. 7 Religion has proved herself equally able to dominate the grandest intellects, and to elevate the humblest.
1883 E. C. Rollins New Eng. Bygones (new ed.) 56 They were all three grand men, sensible, honest, and carrying weight in town affairs.
1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 25 Bowing the while in the grand manner.
c. Of a natural object, architecture, etc.: impressing the mind with a sense of vastness and magnificence; imposing by reason of beauty combined with magnitude.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > [adjective] > specifically of things or ideas
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > splendour, magnificence, or pomp > [adjective] > imposing
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1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 175 That which is the Grandest of all Phaenomena.., The Orderly Regularity and Harmony of the Mundane System.
1681 ‘T. Do-Well’ Conf. between Bensalian Bishop & Eng. Doctor 14 Which will doubtless strike in you no small admiration, to view those wonders, and grand Arcana of nature and art.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 414. ¶4 There is generally in Nature something more Grand and August, than what we meet with in the Curiosities of Art.
1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful ii. §12. 58 I have ever observed, that colonnades and avenues of trees of a moderate length, were without comparison far grander, than when they were suffered to run to immense distances.
1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 249 What he views of beautiful or grand In nature, from the broad majestic oak To the green blade.
1859 J. Hamilton Mem. J. Wilson ii. 31 The interior of the Church is very grand.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xi. 82 The clouds were very grand—grander indeed than anything I had ever before seen.
1885 Athenæum 23 May 669/3 Grand surges move in ranks..till they beat furiously on the shore.
1911 J. Muir My First Summer in Sierra 85 Though only a sheep camp, this grand mountain hollow is home.
1932 W. Lewis Filibuster in Barbary in C. J. Fox Journey into Barbary (1983) 41 A grand black forest above the depressed levellings of our Western life.
1982 A. N. Wilson Wise Virgin (1984) x. 184 The dome of the Oratory..grand and black against the pale English sky.
1997 A. Sivanandan When Memory Dies ii. iii. 150 But still I could not help going up to the cathedral sometimes, just to look at it, so grand it was and awesome.
d. attributive. Coupled with old. Of a person or thing: impressive because of age and appearance or experience; venerable. See also grand old man n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > people > person > old person > [adjective] > old and experienced
venerable?a1500
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veteran1624
grand1845
1845 Ld. Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere (new ed.) in Poems (ed. 3) I. 157 The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cix. 172 He bore without abuse The grand old name of gentleman. View more context for this quotation
1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 349 So the grand old abbot..was taken to Wells.
1877 L. J. Jennings Field Paths 37 A delightful old church..rendered a true pilgrim's shrine..by its grand old tower.
1963 N.Y. Times Mag. 25 Aug. 18/2 His father was a grand old radical who took a peerage simply because the Labor party had fallen below its minimum desirable strength in the House of Lords.
2006 T. Anderson Riding Magic Carpet (2008) v. 180 The menacing shadow of the grand old church looming over you.
11. colloquial.Historically commoner in North American, Scottish, Irish English, and English regional usage than in standard British English.
a. Used as a general term to express strong admiration, approval, or gratification: magnificent, splendid; excellent; highly enjoyable. Also: (in weakened use, chiefly Irish English) satisfactory, fine, all right. Also in ironic use.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective]
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smoking1934
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extraordinaire1940
rumpty1940
sharp1940
dodger1941
grouse1941
perfecto1941
pipperoo1945
real gone1946
bosting1947
supersonic1947
whizzo1948
neato1951
peachy-keen1951
ridgey-dite1953
ridgy-didge1953
top1953
whizzing1953
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belting1956
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a treat1959
fab1961
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uptight1962
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radical1964
bakgat1965
unreal1965
pearly1966
together1968
safe1970
bad1971
brilliant1971
fabby1971
schmick1972
butt-kicking1973
ripper1973
Tiffany1973
bodacious1976
rad1976
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awesome1979
death1979
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fly1980
shiok1980
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to die1982
mint1982
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mega1985
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lovely jubbly1992
awesomesauce2001
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1781 Pennsylvania Jrnl. 20 June Grand, for excellent. A grand farm. ‘Boots are grand things to ride in’.
1785 J. O'Keeffe Peeping Tom of Coventry i. 15 Maud... But what brought you home, Tom? Tom. Why grand news!
1808 ‘M. A. Espriella’ Lett. from Eng. (ed. 2) I. xxi. 229 That's Washington [sc. a variety of tulip]; he's a grand fellow!
1815 J. Pickering in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 3 ii. 484 Grand. Much used in conversation, for very good, excellent, fine, &c. Ex. This is grand news; he is a grand fellow; this is a grand day. New England.
1866 Derbysh. Gloss. in Reliquary Jan. 160 Grand, good, superior. ‘Hay! it wor grand, lads, that ale wor.’
1871 Scribner's Monthly May 76 It was a splendid day, and we had a grand time.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby ‘Here's a grand day’, very fine weather.
1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat 257 Up he would march to the head of the punt, plant his pole, and then run along right to the other end, just like an old punter. Oh! how grand!
1898 K. S. Ranjitsinhji With Stoddart's Team iii The Melbourne ground was..in grand condition as regards the turf.
1917 D. Haig Diary 11 Apr. in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 280 The men were in grand form but tired.
1928 N. Shepherd Quarry Wood xiii. 111 in Grampian Quartet (2001) ‘That's grand hurdies ye're gettin' on you lassie,’ said Geordie, slapping her as she passed him.
1951 ‘M. J. Farrell’ Loving without Tears xxiii. 160 Splendid. Grand. Of course you'll stay to dinner, mustn't he, Mummy?
1970 J. Philips Nightmare at Dawn (1971) i. 41 Grand, a man has been murdered.
1996 F. McCourt Angela's Ashes (1997) i. 10 Yes, tea, or is it whiskey you want? He said tea was grand but first he'd have to go and deal with John McErlaine.
b. Originally U.S. and Irish English. Of a person: well, in good health. Frequently in negative contexts.
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1896 E. E. Cleveland Our Family Umbrella ii. 20 Mr. B. (sarcastically) Asleep? Head ache? Oh! no, I'm feeling grand.
1914 G. O'Donovan Waiting xxiv. 375 ‘I'm better—feeling grand entirely,’ he murmured in a weak voice. ‘I'm well able to get up.’
1924 Times 2 Oct. 11/3 The witness said he was not feeling too grand after the blood and the fighting.
1934 N. Marsh Man lay Dead viii. 145 ‘May I see your patient, Doctor Young?’.. ‘She's not so grand,’ he said doubtfully.
1965 B. Friel Philadelphia, Here I come! in Sel. Plays (1984) 43 Your father—how is he? Oh he—he—he's grand, thanks.
1990 B. Roche Poor Beast in Rain in Wexford Trilogy (1992) 92 Joe... So how is herself? Danger. Grand. Right form.
2001 J. Gough Juno & Juliet i. xxiii. 81 They woke me up when it was over, and offered to walk me home. ‘No, thanks, I'll be grand’.
B. n.† 1. = grandee n. and adj. Obsolete.† 3. A principal fortress. Obsolete. rare.Only as a translation of the French term: see quot. 1670.† 7. In sugar manufacture: the first and largest evaporating pan of a set. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > earl, count, or countess > [noun] > grandee
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1606 True Relation Proc. at Arraignm. Late Traitors sig. Oo3 Then fell the Grands of Italy to renounce all duetie.
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 206 The Grands (all Dukes among them are Grands, and some Marquesses and Counts)..shall bee honord with Vuestra Sennoria i. your Lordship.
1669 London Gaz. No. 352/3 To whom His Majesty has been pleased in favour to the Count, as a Grand of Portugal, to give her the Priviledge of a Stool before the Queen.
1710 Consolation to Mira Mourning 16 Her Grands, her Chiefs, her Ministers..gladly wou'd their highest Stations here..Exchange for our small Princedom there.
1764 J. Boswell Grand Tour 27 June (1953) 12 I was next presented to all the Grands, etc., and to the Dammes d'honneur.
1871 Southern Mag. (Baltimore) Aug. 178 So Gaudri drew his friends, and among them nearly all the grands of the city, into a complot to assassinate Gérard.
2. With plural agreement. With the: those who are grand; eminent, fashionable, or wealthy people collectively.
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the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > rich or wealthy person > rich people
richeOE
richeOE
grand1667
moneyed interest1711
affluent1735
nabobry1777
jet set1949
beautiful people1950
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > famous or eminent person > [noun] > (group of) eminent people
greata1325
principalsa1425
the great and the good1624
constellationa1631
grand1667
Pleiad1856
prominenti1927
tycoonery1956
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 427 There kept thir Watch the Legions, while the Grand In Council sate. View more context for this quotation
1842 Literary Casket Dec. 132/2 The carriages of the great and the grand were again seen dashing through the streets.
1868 E. Bulwer-Lytton Chrons. & Characters viii. 250 The gilded chair where the urchin sits, Whose grandsires all earth's greatest were In grandeur, when the grand were great.
1948 Life 13 Sept. 120/2 The grand were very grand.
1981 S. J. Flower et al. Debrett's Etiquette & Mod. Manners xi. 293 The grand arrive in Rolls Royces or even by helicopter.
2004 T. Barnard Making Grand Figure viii. 253 Cheaper versions of the expensive, hitherto supposedly monopolized by the grand, were devised.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fort or fortified town > [noun] > other types of fort
hendecagon1648
grand1670
etoile1727
vitrified fort1777
roundabout1795
ring fort1846
oppidum1847
sea-fort1879
motte-and-bailey1900
motte castle1912
mote-castle1919
murus gallicus1939
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon i. iv. 151 Betwixt these Forts..he caus'd a Grand to be erected [Fr. il en fit esleuer vn grand], that is to say, a greater Fort.
4. With the.† b. slang. to do the grand: to make a great display; to put on airs. Cf. do v. 19b. Obsolete.
a. That which is grand; the lofty, magnificent, or sublime.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > [noun] > that which is
grand1728
1728 J. Oldmixon Ess. Crit. 24 The French perhaps have been a little too scrupulous and exact in dividing the Noble and the Grand in the Manner of Thinking.
1745 E. Young Consolation 44 The Grand of Nature is th' Almighty's Oath, In Reason's Court, to silence Unbelief.
1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 99 [His] taste..was turned entirely towards the grand; he hated everything petit.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. i. 16 The taste they create for the beautiful, and the grand.
1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing iv. 228 The grand calls for the accompanying aid of wild forests.
1852 F. L. Olmsted Walks & Talks of Amer. Farmer in Eng. 158 Not but that the sublime, the grand, and the awful were not apparent also, all over and around.
1884 R. Holmes & E. Holmes tr. H. Berlioz Autobiogr. II. lxv. 185 The contempt for the true, the grand and the beautiful, and the cynicism and decrepitude of art in certain countries.
1998 National Trust Mag. Autumn 5/1 In fact dare I say that England is overstocked with the grand.
2000 R. Sterling World Food: Spain 177 The grandest of the grand and the bestest of the best is in Barcelona.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)]
brandishc1340
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braga1556
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flourish1563
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display1608
to launch it out1608
flasha1616
to cut it out1619
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to gallantrize it1693
bosh1709
glare1712
to cut a bosh1726
to show away1728
to figure away, off1749
parade1749
to cut a dashc1771
dash1786
to cut up1787
to cut a flash1795
to make, or cut, a splash1804
swank1809
to come out strong1825
to cut a spludge1831
to cut it (too) fat1836
pavonize1838
splurge1844
to do the grand1847
to cut a swath1848
to cut a splurge1860
to fan out1860
spread1860
skyre1871
fluster1876
to strut one's stuff1926
showboat1937
floss1938
style1968
1847 A. Smith Nat. Hist. Gent viii. 52 You will find them either endeavouring to ‘do the grand’, by not joining in the current amusements of the evening; or overstepping all bounds of ordinary behaviour—‘going it’, to use their own words—and committing every kind of preposterous and silly offence.
1872 A. Clyde Te Kooti 39 I would do the ‘grand’, Like any other swell.
1894 C. J. O'Regan Voices of Wave & Tree 11 Men now..dress fine, and do the grand, For the age of digger's shirts has passed away.
1904 ‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing in L. E. Sullivan Bandits & Bibles (2003) 194 I did the grand to Chicago and filled in with a yeg mob... I purchased a first-class ticket to Chicago and met a gang of safe burglars whom I joined.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 167 Do the grand. Hock in green glasses. Swell blowout.
5. In a social fraternity: any of the officers whose titles contain the word ‘grand’. spec. the title of the chairperson. Noble Grand: the chair of a lodge of Oddfellows. Vice Grand: the vice-chair of a lodge of Oddfellows.
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society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > one who presides > over an institution or society > specific
corrector1553
guider1578
Dean of Faculty1664
grand1747
regent1890
1747 Fool (1748) II. 165 The Fools being assembled, the Grand.., attended by the Vice, and the other Officers of Folly, assum'd the Chair.
1759 O. Goldsmith Clubs in Busy Body 13 Oct. 14 The Grand, with a mallet in his hand, presided at the head of the table... My speculations were however soon interrupted by the Grand, who had knocked down Mr. Spriggins for a song.
1795 in R. Humphreys Mem. J. Decastro (1824) 247 As many Grands and Brothers of the Odd Fellows, Bucks, Masonic and other Lodges.
1803 Sporting Mag. June 160/2 The Noble Grand moved that a Trustee should be appointed to take care of their Exchequer; but..the Lord Warden and the Vice Grand objected.
1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Apr. 361/2 Gebir, my old free mason, and prince of plaisterers at Babel, bring in your trowel, most Ancient Grand!
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xiii. 161 The Glorious Apollers, of which I have the honour to be Perpetual Grand.
1862 A. Trollope in Cornhill Mag. Jan. 64 He was generally called ‘The Grand’, his full title being ‘The Most Worthy Grand Goose’.
1870 Gentleman's Mag. July 224 Notwithstanding the spread of masonry, and the numbers of the ‘accepted’ at the present day, we doubt whether all the existing Grand Masters and Past Grands could, by their united energies, design and build the most modest of churches.
1921 Proc. Grand Lodge Independent Order Odd Fellows, Illinois 420 The warden will then hand the box to the noble grand for inspection, after which, the warden escorted by the conductor, will take it to the vice-grand for inspection.
1973 H. Robertson Grass Roots vii. 107 We used to have a special graveside ceremony every time a member died but, well..it's getting kind of hard on the Noble Grands.
1985 B. Greenberg Worker & Community 185 Former chief officers, or Noble Grands, of the subordinate lodges were referred to as ‘Past Grands’.
2013 M. L. Dauber Sympathetic State vii. 209 She offered that she was a ‘member in good standing in the Rebekah lodge’ where she and her husband had served as ‘Grands’.
6. A grand piano.baby grand: see baby n. and adj. Compounds 1h. concert grand: see concert n. Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > types of piano
grand pianoforte1784
square pianoforte1787
grand piano1795
cottage pianoforte1816
cottage piano1824
table piano1827
table pianoforte1827
tin kettle1827
grand1830
piccolo1831
Broadwood1832
semi-grand1835
pianino1848
cottage1850
square piano1853
street piano1855
upright1860
pianette1862
digitorium1866
Steinway1875
baby grand1879
square1882
tin pan1882
honky-tonk piano1934
minipiano1934
spinet1936
prepared piano1940
ravalement1959
rinky-tink1961
miniature1974
Mozart piano1980
1830 Harmonicon June (advt.) Highly approved instruments, on the Patent Spring Una-Corda (or Monochord) self-adjusting principles, in Grands, Cabinets, Cottages, Vocalists, and Squares.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 142 In flat instruments, especially grands, there is a difficulty in giving strength to the bracing.
1891 St. James's Gaz. 26 Mar. 5/2 She..begins the preliminary scramble on the hired grand.
1922 A. H. Lindo Pedalling in Pianoforte Music ii. x. 143 The mechanism of the shifting keyboard, which is fitted to many Uprights and to nearly all Grands, is preferable.
1938 Amer. Home Oct. 81/3 (advt.) Resotonic Construction..which amazingly gives this smart 34'' table-top piano tonal quality and volume comparable to a grand.
2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Weekend section) p. XIV/5 (advt.) Seven fine reconditioned or nearly new Steinways including hand carved Louis XV uprights and grands with exquisitely decorated cases (ormolu, inlay and carving).
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1790 J. B. Moreton Manners & Customs West India Islands 48 In the boiling-house there are four or five coppers of different sizes set close together, about eighteen inches from the floor; the largest of which is called the grand copper.]
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1202 The skimmings of the grand are thrown into a separate pan.
1882 Chambers's Jrnl. 22 Apr. 255/1 The liquor runs first into the ‘grand’, or pan farthest from the furnace, which holds about six hundred gallons.
1916 J. G. M'Intosh Technol. Sugar (ed. 3) x. 368 The old method of boiling down cane juice in a row of open pans set over a furnace... The first, the largest pan, on that account is called the grand.
8. In the game of skat: a bid to play with only the four matadores (knaves) as trumps.Varieties of this include: solo grand, gucki grand, tournee grand, open grand (or grand ouvert).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > skat > score or bid
grand?1872
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?1872 W. B. Dick Mod. Pocket Hoyle (ed. 4) 144 Grand.—This is a bid to win without naming any suit. There are no trumps in this bid except the four Matadores.
1894 W. B. Dick Amer. Hoyle (ed. 15) 270 Grand Ouvert with or without four Matadores is the highest bid in Skat.
1906 R. F. Foster Skat Man. 121 This he can do by declaring a Grand.
1906 R. F. Foster Skat Man. 141 In the tournee grand, he has the immense advantage of being able to lay away dangerous cards in the skat.
1906 R. F. Foster Skat Man. 149 The solution of the problem is the invention of the Gucki Grand. The word is derived from ‘gucken’, which resembles our word ‘to look’.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XX. 727/2 The games in which only knaves are trumps are called grand (or grando).
1957 Encycl. Brit. XX. 727/2 Solo grand is played without use of the skat. In open grand the player's entire hand is exposed before the opening lead, and the player contracts to win every trick.
1976 National Skat & Sheepshead Q. Mar. 18 A grand scores 80 points and possibly 100 if the hand is schneidered.
1992 D. Parlett Dict. Card Games 267 At ramsch, there are no partners and no winner, only a loser, and cards rank and value as at grand (Jacks trump).
9. slang (originally U.S.). A thousand dollars. Later also: a thousand pounds. Now usually with unchanged plural.
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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a thousand dollars
grand1915
thousand1919
yard1926
G1928
dime1958
society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a thousand pounds
thousand1567
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1915 Boston Daily Globe 19 Dec. 37/2 You can lose a ‘nickel note’ of five dollars, a dime note of ten, a ‘C’ a hundred, or a ‘grand’, a thousand dollars.
1921 Collier's 26 Mar. 24/2 ‘A hundred and fifty grands!’ I breathed. ‘You're cuckoo.’
1921 Collier's 27 Aug. 4/3 ‘I lose twenty-five thousand dollars!’.. Twenty-five grand!
1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. iv. x. 359 D'you think I'd pay a hundred grand for protection if it wasn't worth it?
1932 Amer. Mercury Jan. 16 I don't know how much it is, but I suppose around ten, twelve, fifteen grand.
1946 People 7 Apr. 2/3 I stepped out with the spree-bent suckers..into this..world..where the black market boys..gamble in ‘grands’ (£1,000).
1958 Times 25 Feb. 5/3 He wanted his ‘whack of the grand’.
1967 Sunday Tel. 23 Apr. 6/1 One 26-year-old [criminal]..insisted that he picked up a regular £1,000 a week working with a professional gang. ‘Honest, a grand or a couple of grand isn't really big stakes in my game.’
2005 M. M. Frisby Wifebeater iii. 20 I managed to blow almost twenty grand in less than a year with little to show for it.
10. U.S. colloquial = grandchild n. 1.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > grandchild > [noun]
oy1488
grandchild1569
grandbairn1689
grandling1751
grandbabe1789
mokopuna1824
grandbaby1830
grandwean1877
grandkid1895
grand1922
1922 A. E. Gonzales Black Border Gloss. 304 Gran'—grand—grandchild, grandson.
1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 3 May b1 The talk over the baked ham..is about grands, and great-grands, not politics.
1989 A. Walker Temple my Familiar i. 84 They know a visit from the ‘grands’ might do them in for a while.
2013 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 28 Apr. (Herald-Times ed.) a2/1 His world was his grandchildren, or as he referred to them, ‘The Grands’.
C. adv.
Grandly; in a grand way. Now nonstandard.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > [adverb]
micklelyeOE
worthlyeOE
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1729 M. B. Let. to People Ireland 9 They had rather rack their poor Tennants that they might live grand Abroad, than live with them at home.
1775 S. Johnson Let. 22 May (1992) II. 210 Beattie has called once to see me. He lives grand at the Archbishop's.
1840 New Monthly Mag. 59 476 I don't know but what it may be better fun dining in this way, and eating as much as I like, then if I had come in my gauze frock, and sat up doing grand with the old fogrums in the dining-room.
1864 R. Browning Mr. Sludge in Dramatis Personæ 176 A poor lad..hears the company Talk grand of dollars, V-notes, and so forth.
1930 J. Buchan Castle Gay i. 23 Bill's getting on grand in Australia.
1986 R. Thomas White Dove i. 16 He was doing grand, Dai was, before the war came.
2012 C. Kelly House on Willow Street (2013) i. 34 ‘The pub's doing grand,’ he blustered. ‘I'm making a fortune.’
Compounds
C1. Complementary.† grand-made adj. Obsolete
grand-looking adj.
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1776 M. Dawes Misc. Prose & Verse 169 Ghent..is really an airy, grand-looking place, particularly to visitors.
1792 C. Smith Desmond II. 209 Quite a grand looking man, though not lusty, but rather thinnish.
1878 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) III. 327 The Crown-Prince is really a grand-looking man.
1991 New Yorker 9 Dec. 127/2 Imani, who has braided hair, is very grand-looking, and comes wearing an African dress made of kente cloth, ‘a fabric worn by royalty in Nigeria’.
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1844 E. B. Barrett Poems II. 17 His lips and jaw, Grand-made and strong, as Sinai's Law.
grand-sounding adj.
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1813 Eclectic Rev. Feb. 115 A mighty burst of grand-sounding words.
1910 M. V. McDonough Chief Sources of Sin 32 What is commercialism? Simply a grand-sounding name for money-making.
2010 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 4 July (Features section) 24 One gets the impression that there is a kind of merry-go-round of grand-sounding international prizes and committees.
C2. † grand-bob n. Campanology Obsolete = Plain Bob n. at plain adj.2 Compounds 3; cf. grandsire n. 5. † grand-hound n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) a mastiff.† grand-junctioner n. Obsolete (perhaps) a director of the ‘Grand Junction’ railway.Apparently an isolated use. † grand-maund n. Military Obsolete a gabion.
grand action n. the action of a grand piano (see action n. 19d).
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1830 Euterpeiad 16 Aug. 67/2 The horizontal Piano Forte..with a newly invented and patented grand action.
1834 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 15 Nov. 713/3 The only difference in the two musical instruments is, the one is what is called by makers French Grand Action, and the other English Grand Action.
1907 J. C. Fischer Piano Tuning iv. 42 What rail serves two purposes in the grand action, and what are they?
1998 D. Rowland Cambr. Compan. to Piano 225 The modern grand action..is derived from the English grand action.
grand apartheid n. [compare Afrikaans algehele apartheid, lit. ‘total apartheid’, grootapartheid, lit. ‘big apartheid’] South African (now historical) a form of apartheid, especially prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s, which involved comprehensive racial segregation and measures such as the removal of black people from ‘white’ areas and the creation of separate black homelands; cf. petty apartheid n. at petty adj. and n. Compounds 1a.
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1964 Des Moines (Iowa) Reg. 16 June 8/3 By contrast with ‘petty apartheid’, which consists largely of Jim Crow laws and practices, ‘grand apartheid’ aims at permanent partition of South Africa between ‘black’ and ‘white’ areas.
1988 N. Gordimer in D. D. Honoré Trevor Huddleston 8 If our professional politicians had had his [sc. Huddleston's] intelligence they would not have behind them today the failed Verwoerdian ‘grand apartheid’.
2012 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 22 July (Opinion & Editorial section) In the shadow of a world war against fascism, came the cynical violence of grand apartheid, effectively prohibiting the majority from obtaining an economic or social foothold in a society preserved for whites.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > music on specific instrument > [noun] > on bells
peal1513
chime1530
rounda1661
round peala1663
grand-bob1747
carillon1806
Cambridge chimes1850
1747 Hist. Rise, Progress, & Tendency of Patriotism iii. 30 Come my Lads, away with the Grand Bob, he'll be here immediately.
a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 391/2 The ringers to ring one peal of grand bobs.
1892 Manch. Weekly Times 4 Nov. 5/7 Among them was half-a-guinea to the ringer for a peal of grand bobs, to be struck off as his body began to descend into the grave.
grand bounce n. U.S. colloquial (now rare and regional) (with the) ejection from a place; summary dismissal from a job, position, etc.; (also) abrupt rejection of a suitor or lover; frequently in to get (also give) the grand bounce (cf. bounce n.1 3b); abbreviated g.b.Usage in California, Michigan, and Wisconsin is recorded from 1965–70in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1985) I. 352/2.
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1874 Democratic Pharos (Logansport, Indiana) 28 Jan. We think that the Kendallville Justice who fined a man only five dollars for giving a local editor the ‘grand bounce’ has established a bad precedent—for local editors.
1880 News & Press (Cimarron, New Mexico) 23 Dec. 1/7 ‘Well, I've got the g.b.’ ‘The geebee, Thomas! What in the nation is that?’ ‘I've got the grand bounce.’
1903 W. D. Howells Lett. Home xxviii. 161 She led him on by every art known to her sex, and then tossed him, as Miss Ralson said, or gave him the grand bounce.
1915 B. Tarkington Turmoil xxxii. in Harper's Mag. Mar. 582/2 He keeps after me to hold up my end o' the job. I shouldn't be surprised he'd give me the grand bounce some day, and run the whole circus by himself.
Grand Canyon n. [ < the name of the gorge of the Colorado River in Arizona, U.S.A.] Geology the system of (chiefly sedimentary) rocks exposed in the Grand Canyon, Arizona; spec. (in later use) a series of strata laid down between about 1250 and 700 million years ago; usually attributive, designating these formations and things connected with them.
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1875 Rep. Geogr. & Geol. Surv. West 100th Meridian (Engineer Dept., U.S. Army) III. i. vi. 186 The Grand Cañon rock system.
1876 J. W. Powell Rep. Geol. Eastern Portion Uinta Mount. 70 Fossils have been found at the base of the Grand Cañon series... Red Creek Quartzite and Grand Cañon schists..are believed to be Eozoic.
1925 J. Joly Surface-hist. Earth viii. 131 Many authorities would recognize in pre-Cambrian times not one but three great revolutions as having occurred.., the third (the Killarney or Grand Canyon) closing pre-Cambrian time.
1952 W. J. Miller Introd. Hist. Geol. (ed. 6) x. 95 The Grand Canyon system must have been uplifted, tilted, and faulted, with production of block mountains, and then eroded to a condition of low relief, before submergence under the Cambrian sea.
2011 J. P. Rafferty Geochronol., Dating & Precambrian Time 220 The Grand Canyon Series is a major division of rocks in northern Arizona that dates from Precambrian time.
grand chain n. see chain n. 5f.
grand committee n. British Parliament (a) historical each of the four committees (for religion, for grievances, for courts of justice, and for trade) annually appointed by the House of Commons until 1832 (though they had long before that date ceased actually to sit); formerly also (in the 17th cent.) †a committee of the whole house; (b) a committee of members of the House of Commons meeting to consider a specific matter of common interest, spec. (formerly) either of two standing committees appointed every session (1882–8) to consider bills relating to matters of law and trade (obsolete); (subsequently) any of a number of committees formed to debate matters relating to Scottish, Welsh, or Northern Irish affairs; (c) (in the House of Lords) an ad hoc committee convened for the consideration of individual Bills which are not sent to a Committee of the Whole House.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > parliamentary committees
committee1566
grand committee1606
Ned1961
Neddy1962
little Neddy1963
little Ned1964
1606 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 4 Dec. 6 f. 42v Mr Lawrence Hyde reporteth the Proceeding of the grand Committee, in the point of commerce.
1626 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 4 Apr. 17 13 The grd Cotee to sitt at 2. of the clocke.
1640 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. 18 Dec. vi. 21 This grand Committee..did authorize a Sub-committee.
1642 J. Vicars God in Mount 76 A grand-Committee of both Houses.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 125 Made Bills to pass the Grand Committee.
1728 Stamford Mercury 15 Feb. 50 The Commons in a Grand Committee on the Supply Resolved..that 15000 Men be employed for the Sea Service.
1887 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 311 233 The Grand Committee on Trade did their work uncommonly well; but nothing could have been worse than the way the Grand Committee on Law did its work.
1887 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 311 235 The Scotch Members for years used to form themselves into such a Grand Committee.
1891 Guardian 4 Mar. 341/2 The Tithe Bill..is to be further put into shape by a grand committee.
1935 G. Dangerfield Strange Death Liberal Eng. ii. iii. 157 The question at issue seemed to be a very simple one: should the Bill go to a Grand Committee of the House, or to a Committee of the whole House.
1990 A. Adonis Parl. Today vii. 101 Four or five times a session all MPs from Scotland and Wales meet as the Scottish Grand Committee and Welsh Grand Committee respectively.
2004 Daily Tel. 14 Sept. 29/7 The House of Lords grand committee, headed by Baroness Hollis, which is currently debating the Pensions Bill, will address this issue today.
Grand Cordon n. see cordon n. 6.
Grand Cross n. see cross n. 19.
grand day n. a very important day of festivity; spec. in the Inns of Court, a day of special celebration in each of the four terms of the year (now historical).
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1605 G. Chapman et al. Eastward Hoe iv. sig. F4 This is he that stole his knighthood o' the grand day, for foure pound.
1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix Ep. Ded. sig. ★v On Lords-dayes and other solemne Holy-dayes, on which these Grand-dayes ever fall.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Gawdy or Grand days. In the Inns of Court there are four of these in the year, that is, one in every Term.
1708 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) (at cited word) Grand Days are those which are solemnly kept in every Term in the Inns of Court and Chancery, viz. In Easter Term, Ascention Day; in Trin. Term, St. John Baptist; in Michaelmas Term, All Saints; in Hillary Term, the Feast of the Purification of the B. Virgin. And these are no days in Court.
1855 R. Ford Handbk. Travellers in Spain (ed. 3) II. i. i. 61 The church ceremonials, on grand days, although now much shorn of their splendour, should always be visited.
1889 Harper's Mag. Aug. 339/1 A buffet, on which the imperial plate is displayed on grand days during the visits of the Tsar.
1966 Huntington Libr. Q. May in Amer. Hist. Rev. (1967) 72 767/1 John Donne's sermons on the ‘Grand Days’.
2000 D. Lemmings Professors of Law viii. 296 Some lesser Grand Days were still held after 1700, but much of the solemnity which attached to the office of reader was shed with the end of substantive readings.
2010 Daily News (Colombo, Sri Lanka) (Nexis) 10 Sept. In the midst of rejoicing and thanksgiving on this grand day of Eid.
grand entree n. now rare an opening spectacle in a circus consisting of an elaborate pageant of performers; cf. spec n.2 1.
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1824 K. Decastro Mem. 121 It was the custom then, when they [sc. equestrian circus performers] made their ‘Grand Entree’, as it is now called, to be preceded by a drum and fife.
1907 Everybody's Mag. July 67/1 The performers have their dinner then they must dress for the grand entrée, from which none is excused.
1992 Kokomo (Indiana) Tribune 10 June 13/1 The circus night production will use music and announcements to depict various acts such as Grand Entree, elephants, acrobats, horses, high wire, clowns..and the grand finale.
grand finale n. (a) a particularly elaborate, dramatic, or exciting concluding section of a musical or theatrical performance; (b) (in extended use) an elaborate or impressive conclusion to anything.
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1784 Parker's Gen. Advertiser 9 Sept. Two penny drums, halfpenny trumpets.., and a general clash of mugs, jugs, and bottles, as the Grand Finale.
1795 H. Lucas (title) Cœlina; A mask. With songs, chorusses, and a grand finale.
1849 Athenæum 21 Apr. 48/1 After this comes the grand finale,—being the scene in the church.
1874 L. Troubridge Jrnl. 3 Sept. in Life amongst Troubridges (1966) ix. 92 All the ‘homeites’ rush downstairs and the grand finale takes place.
1908 Daily Chron. 5 June 5/4 The grand finale..of the show is the chuting of the chute by big elephants.
1994 Minnesota Monthly Dec. 84/2 The grand finale is a flaming ‘figgy’ pudding.
2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 16 Mar. ii. 32/5 The unashamedly hi-cal ‘Grand Pianola Music’ of 1982..will be the grand finale.
grand fir n. a large fir tree, Abies grandis, native to the west coast of North America.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > fir-tree
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Scotch fir1673
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Alpine fir1819
deal treea1825
pinsapo1839
fir-pine1843
red fir1852
grand fir1874
mountain balsam1878
Shasta fir1897
Santa Lucia fir1905
1866 ‘J. Senilis’ Pinaceæ iii. 38 Picea Grandis: The Great or Grand Silver Fir.]
1874 Gardener's Monthly Apr. 112/2 In these pockets small clumps of Mensies' Spruce and the Grand Fir, would be seen growing.
1969 Northwest 14 Dec. (Sunday Oregonian Mag.) 21/3 While our familiar Douglas fir is still the most popular species..the..Grand firs are very close seconds.
2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees v. 115 Most firs grow as spires like Christmas trees and can be very tall: the tallest are the grand firs (A. grandis) which in Vancouver island approach 90 metres.
Grand Fleet n. British (now historical) (a) (during the 18th cent.) the fleet based at Spithead; (b) (during the period 1914–16) the British Battle Fleet operating in the North Sea.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun]
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armyc1475
armada1533
class1596
naval1627
armadilla1685
Grand Fleet1696
armament1698
maritime power1711
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > specific fleet
armada1588
flote1673
flota1690
Home Fleet1705
home guard1712
Channel Fleet1741
Grand Fleet1914
1696 W. Cockburn Acct. Distempers Seafaring People i. 6 If we consider the number of men, the length of the Voyages, in Convoys and Cruisers, the Grand Fleet in the Channel, and their Work.
1702 Hist. Wks. Learned Nov. 702 An Impartial Account of all the material Transactions of the Grand Fleet, and Land Forces; from their first setting out from Spithead, June the 29th..1702.
1745 Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 119 Impressed Men, who were all put on board the Winchester..and carried to the grand Fleet then lying at Spithead.
1781 Ld. Nelson 5 Mar. in Dispatches & Lett. (1844) I. 40 I am sorry the wind hangs so much Western board, as it must hinder the sailing of the Grand Fleet.
1914 J. R. Jellicoe in Times 16 Sept. 8/6 The officers and men of the Grand Fleet beg that you will convey to their comrades of the British Army their intense admiration for the magnificent fight they have made.
1919 J. R. Jellicoe Grand Fleet 1914–16 iii. 34 The Grand Fleet may be said to have come into being only at the outbreak of the War, when it was so christened.
1966 A. J. Marder From Dreadnought to Scapa Flow III. vi. 207 The moral ascendancy of the Grand Fleet over the High Seas Fleet remained and, if anything, was stronger.
2013 C. Kennedy Narr. Revol. & Napoleonic Wars vii. 173 William Cobbett, recollecting the first time he saw the grand fleet anchored at Spithead.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > giant breeds > mastiff
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bandogc1425
mastiff houndc1450
mastin1484
mastiff cur1522
grand-hound1548
mastiff bitch1604
Molossus dog1607
molossus1623
watch-mastiff1778
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxxv Semblable my cousyne therle of Rychemonde..wyll surelye attempte lyke a fierce grandhounde, other to byte or to perce me on the other syde.
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1860 R. W. Emerson Wealth in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 83 Railroad presidents, copper-miners, grand-junctioners [etc.].
grand larceny n. Law (in many U.S. states and formerly in Britain) theft of personal property having a value above a legally specified amount; cf. petit larceny n. at petit adj. and n. Compounds 1, petty larceny n. at petty adj. and n. Compounds 1b.
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1588 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (rev. ed.) ii. vii. 275 All manner of theft, whether it were robberie it self, or great or petite Larcenie.]
1618 M. Dalton Countrey Justice 229 Grand Larceny, is when the goods stollen be aboue the value of xij. d. and this is felonie of death.
1678 M. Hale Pleas of Crown 49 Simple Larceny of two kinds: Grand Larceny, of value of 12 pence. Petit Larceny, under that value.
1729 Daily Post 24 July 1/3 [Four men] were convicted of Grand Larceny and burnt in the Hand, and ordered to the House of Correction for two Years.
1785 J. Trusler Mod. Times I. xiii. 136 Others were for indicting me for grand larceny.
1823 Bury & Norwich Post 7 May 3/2 Thos. Gedge was convicted of grand larceny, and sentenced to 7 years' transportation.
1892 J. M. Vanfleet Law of Collateral Attack on Judicial Proc. vi. 204 It took twenty-five dollars in value to make grand larceny.
1907 Indianapolis Sun 14 Nov. 4/3 A New York broker, in pleading guilty to grand larceny, blames his high-living wife.
1984 B. Jackson Law & Disorder ii. 50 The lower level of thefts..remained $50. Thefts that would have been petty larceny in constant dollars became grand larceny because of inflation.
2014 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 Apr. (Metro section) t32 A 51-year-old Alexandria man was arrested and charged with malicious wounding, grand larceny, and larceny with intent to sell stolen property.
grand larcenist n. a person who commits grand larceny.
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1881 Family's Defender Nov. 487 He was soon associated in a theft which advanced him to the degree of grand larcenist.
1924 G. C. Henderson Keys to Crookdom ii. 20 The grand larcenist..will burglarize a place quickly enough, but the petty thief is too timid as a rule to ‘crash a joint’.
2012 C. H. Spude That Fiend in Hell vi. 140 Soapy himself was no grand larcenist and he was no killer.
grand lodge n. see lodge n. 7.
grand manner n. [after French grande manière] a style considered appropriate for noble and stately matters; spec. (frequently with capital initials) a style of painting portraying historical subjects in a formal and imposing manner; also in extended use.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > artistic treatment or style > types of
grotesque1561
charging1569
gusto1662
grand manner1695
manner1706
flatnessa1719
style1801
low key1803
mannerism1803
daguerreotype1850
chic1851
conventionalization1880
Louis Philippe1908
stylization1908
convention1926
historicism1939
pop1958
1695 R. Graham Short Acct. Eminent Painters in J. Dryden tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica 342 Giacomo Cortesi..was the Contemporary of Salvator Rosa, and equally applauded for his admirable Gusto, and grand Manner of Painting.
1775 T. Campbell Diary 27 Apr. (1947) 87 Revisited the exhibition of the Royal Academy & am confirmed in my opinion of the grand manner of Barrys Venus lamenting over Adonis.
1808 Monthly Mag. Feb. 13/2 Vandyke..does not come near his master, Rubens, either for the richness of his compositions, or the grand manner of his execution.
1835 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 606/2 ‘I certainly never had any intention of settling abroad finally,’ continued Mrs M. L, insensibly, however, relapsing into her grand manner.
1905 Daily Chron. 28 Dec. 3/1 The Royal Academy tradition of the Grand Manner in painting.
1925 F. F. Potter in Teacher's World July Extra No. The boys of Manchester Grammar School were engaged in a project in the grand manner, when they drained, levelled, and turfed their playing fields.
1957 E. H. Gombrich Story of Art (ed. 8) xxv. 381 David and his school cultivated the Grand Manner.
1993 New Yorker 2 Aug. 68 Titian's mature style is, with Raphael's and Michelangelo's, one of the pillars of the Grand Manner properly so called—that set of elevated, generalized, idealized, coercive fomulas which kept its grip on painting in Europe for three hundred years.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > [noun] > gabions or fascines
bavin1528
gabion1544
grand-maund1579
saucisse1604
sconce-korf1629
cannon-basket1630
sausage1645
chandelier1664
fascine1669
musket-basket1688
saucisson1702
fascinery1751
basket1753
1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 113 Graund Maunds, or Gabbions.
1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 275 All kind of necessaries, belonging to the Artillarie: as..hand Axes, Engines for the mounting of Ordenance, Graund Maundes or Gabions [etc.].
Grand Medicine Society n. North American (now historical) = Midewiwin n.
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1888 Amer. Anthropologist 1 211 These persons, represented by members of the Grand Medicine Society, will be treated of hereafter.
1901 G. W. James Indian Basketry vii. 93 Formerly, among the Menomini Indians colors were made from earth pigments and represented certain degrees of initiation into the Grand Medicine Society.
1956 J. D. Leechman Native Tribes of Canada 51 Membership of the midewiwin, or Grand Medicine Society, was eagerly sought.
2010 R. A. Birmingham Spirits of Earth p. xix The antiquity of the Grand Medicine Society has long been in question: some scholars have argued that it developed in response to social changes and disease introduced by the Europeans.
Grand National n. an annual horse race established in 1839, a steeplechase run over a course of 4 miles 856 yards (about 7,200 metres) with thirty jumps, at Aintree, Liverpool, in late March or early April.From the mid 18th cent. until the end of the 19th cent. the paired adjectives grand and national were frequently applied to important events and institutions, including well-known racing events; cf.:
1767 London Mag. Aug. 378/1 The grand national races do not begin till next spring.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > specific races
St. Leger1778
the Oaks1779
Goodwood Cup1829
Leger1832
Cesarewitch1839
Cambridgeshire handicap1840
Grand Prix de Paris1862
Grand National1863
classic1899
national1909
1839 Bell's Life in London 27 Jan. Grand National Steeple Chace.—February 26, 1839.]
1863 Baily's Monthly Mag. Oct. 97 The morning was as blowing and as rough as is The Grand National invariably at Aintree.
1886 A. Coventry & A. E. T. Watson Steeple-chasing in Earl of Suffolk et al. Racing & Steeple-chasing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 352 Tom Olliver won three Grand Nationals.
1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life II. 281 I hoped to be able to pick out the winner of the Grand National when the weights appeared.
1967 Observer 1 Oct. (Suppl.) 36/1 The Prime Minister is on the verge of his first political success: he is about to save the Grand National.
2008 J. Quinn Goodnight Ballivor xxviii. 131 The English Grand National was always followed avidly in the village. A trusted local man would gather our wagers and place them with a bookmaker in Trim.
grand old man n. a venerable elderly man, a man respected for his long experience or foundational role in some field; spec. (a journalistic name for) any of several distinguished British politicians, esp. (chiefly with the) William Ewart Gladstone, British Prime Minister four times between 1868 and 1894 (abbreviated G.O.M.).
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1838 H. B. Wallace Stanley I. iii. 31 That grand old man, Lord Bacon, was wont when he rode in the country..to uncover his head.
1850 C. Brontë Let. 12 June in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) II. vi. 162 A sight of the Duke of Wellington at the Chapel Royal (he is a real grand old man).
1864 Bradford Observer 4 Aug. 4/5 Lord Palmerston,..this grand old man—the sole living link between England's heroic age and her commercial epoch.
1878 Huddersfield Daily Chron. 14 Mar. 3/6 (heading) Disraeli, the grand old man.
1878 Isle of Man Times 12 Oct. 4/6 Speaking of Mr Gladstone's great attainments as a scholar,..here we had this grand old man on board with us, who..was the accomplished master of no less than six languages.
1882 Manch. Guardian 26 Apr. 4/7 The devotion which Liberals show to their Chief, the ‘grand old man’, as..Sir Stafford Northcote had been pleased to call him.
1887 M. Arnold Kaiser Dead vii Since, 'gainst the classes, He heard, of late, the Grand Old Man Incite the masses.
1937 Life 13 Sept. 69/2 Grand old man of genetics (the science of heredity) is Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan of California Institute of Technology.
1968 Washington Post 11 Aug. g5 Richard Goldstein of the Village Voice, the grand old man of rock criticism,..wrote that style and not substance is the key to success for rock bands.
2002 A. N. Wilson Victorians (2003) xv. 405 Then the Grand Old Man would arrive, often in a carriage pulled by cheering Liberals.
grand passion n. = grande passion n.
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the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [noun] > engrossing love affair or overmastering love
grande passion1806
grand passion1850
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxii. 210 I..am the person who eight years ago had a grand passion.
1905 A. Bennett Tales of Five Towns i. 170 He seemed to sink luxuriously into this grand passion of hers.
1962 ‘H. Lourie’ Question of Abortion ix. 76 We amuse each other... But it doesn't necessarily mean a grand passion or marriage.
1996 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 May 24/1 The grand passion of Alfred de Musset and George Sand, which..gave George Sand copy for more than one novel.
grand paunch n. †(a) a person with a big belly, a glutton (obsolete); (b) a big belly.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [noun] > types of
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barrel-belly1561
grand paunch1569
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swag-paunch1611
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paunch-gut1683
pot belly1696
gundy-gut1699
tun-bellya1704
panter1706
corporation1753
pancheon1804
poda1825
bow window1840
pot1868
pus-gut1935
beer belly1942
pussy-gut1949
pot-gut1951
Molson muscle1967
beer gut1976
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [noun] > gluttony > glutton
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hungry gut1552
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grand paunch1569
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trencher-slave1571
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Phaeacian?1614
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gundy-gut1699
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gobbler1755
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gorger1817
polyphagist1819
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stuff-guts1875
chowhound1917
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Billy Bunter1939
guzzle-guts1959
garbage can1963
foodaholic1965
1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 2 And the mouth of this infernal cell did bestride certaine graund paunches or big belied priests [Fr. certains prebstres & deuins se panchoient].
1577 S. Batman Golden Bk. Leaden Goddes f. 10 v Bacchvs was portraicted with a graunde paunch.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 11 Our grand-panches..haue deuised for themselues a delicat kind of meat out of corn and grain.
1613 W. B. tr. J. de Meung Dodechedron of Fortune 136 In time you shall him a great grand panch see, And so fit an Abbey lubber to bee.
1785 European Mag. & London Rev. July 76*/2 Monsieur George le Roi, says it be ver bad to vex Monsieur le petit homme avec le grand paunch.
1994 G. Genosko Baudrillard & Signs iii. 107 Arrivé has pointed out that the gutbag is not an object which may be destroyed (Ubu does not have fatty deposits in his belly which may be threatened with swords, diets or the like). On the contrary, the grand paunch and, indeed, Ubu too, are simulacral.
grand piano n. a large, full-toned piano which has the body, strings, and soundboard arranged horizontally and in line with the keys.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > types of piano
grand pianoforte1784
square pianoforte1787
grand piano1795
cottage pianoforte1816
cottage piano1824
table piano1827
table pianoforte1827
tin kettle1827
grand1830
piccolo1831
Broadwood1832
semi-grand1835
pianino1848
cottage1850
square piano1853
street piano1855
upright1860
pianette1862
digitorium1866
Steinway1875
baby grand1879
square1882
tin pan1882
honky-tonk piano1934
minipiano1934
spinet1936
prepared piano1940
ravalement1959
rinky-tink1961
miniature1974
Mozart piano1980
1795 E. Davies Elisa Powell I. xii. 250 His taste for music induced him to practise upon my daughter's grand piano, or Welsh harp.
1803 E. S. Bowne Let. in Scribner's Mag. (1887) Aug. 175/2 There is scarcely a house..without a Piano-forte; the Post Master has an elegant grand Piano.
1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 273 It was a grand piano of Broadwood's.
1947 E. Paul Linden on Saugus Branch 50 He had..a Chickering grand piano on which he played..all the reels, jigs, pigeon-wings, moriscos, sarabands, [etc.].
2006 Peak District Life Spring 33/4 A Yamaha baby grand piano..has pride of place in what used to be the dining area.
grand pianoforte n. = grand piano n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > types of piano
grand pianoforte1784
square pianoforte1787
grand piano1795
cottage pianoforte1816
cottage piano1824
table piano1827
table pianoforte1827
tin kettle1827
grand1830
piccolo1831
Broadwood1832
semi-grand1835
pianino1848
cottage1850
square piano1853
street piano1855
upright1860
pianette1862
digitorium1866
Steinway1875
baby grand1879
square1882
tin pan1882
honky-tonk piano1934
minipiano1934
spinet1936
prepared piano1940
ravalement1959
rinky-tink1961
miniature1974
Mozart piano1980
1777 in E. F. Rimbault Pianoforte (1860) 150 [Patent for] his new invented sort of instrument, or of grand forte piano with an octave swell.]
1784 European Mag. & London Rev. July 5/2 He not only designated them as three pieces for the Grand Piano-forte, but as so many grand pieces.
1797 Monthly Mag. 3 145 Their newly invented grand and square Piano Fortes.
1879 J. Stainer Music of Bible 25 A grand pianoforte, which contains more strings than any other instrument in use.
1955 O. Manning Doves of Venus (2004) 215 A grand pianoforte, like a white whale, had come into the studio from the paint-shop.
2004 Times (Nexis) 8 May (Money) 3 An olive wood commode and Lady Menuhin's grand pianoforte will also be on sale.
Grand Prior n. (a) the commander of a priory of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem, or of Malta; (b) (in some large medieval European abbeys, e.g. Cluny and Fécamp) the senior of two or more priors (now historical).The title is now also used in the British royal order of chivalry the Order of St John (cf. quot. 2004), of which St John Ambulance is a subsidiary charity. [Compare French grand prieur (16th cent.; compare Middle French grant prieus (14th cent.)).]
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > provincial > [noun] > of Knights of St. John
Great Prior1523
Grand Prior1589
1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Biii The graund Pryor of Fraunce..had gotten some taste of their disposition.
1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 303 The Seignior of each Nation is..Grand Prior of his Nation, of the Great Cross..and one of the Privy Council to the Great Master.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) In the Monastery of St. Dennis, there were antiently five Priors; the first whereof was call'd the Grand Prior... There are also Grand Priors in the Military Orders.
1842 Southern Lit. Messenger Feb. 141/2 Leo de Strozzi, the young Knight who was named to succeed him, was a nephew of Pope Clement VII, by whom he had been made Grand-Prior of Capua, and a monk of St. John.
1956 W. S. Churchill Hist. Eng.-speaking Peoples I. xxii. 348 Later this force met with the troops of the Archbishop of Rouen and the Grand Prior of France, who were..routed with much slaughter.
1999 J. L. Singman Daily Life in Medieval Europe vi. 145 Cluny was so large that it required two priors. The grand prior was responsible for overseeing the abbey's affairs as a feudal landholder.
2004 Times (Nexis) 28 June (Features section) 27 His Royal Highness, Grand Prior, the Order of St John, this evening attended a Concert for St John Ambulance, London (Prince of Wales's) District.
grand prize n. [after French grand prix (see Grand Prix n.)] the highest prize awarded in a lottery or competition, esp. one for products in some particular line at an exhibition; cf. Grand Prix n. 3.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > prize > for products or work exhibited
grand prize1755
prize1762
Grand Prix1866
1755 E. Thompson Sailor's Lett. (1767) I. xviii. 135 Your dread is poverty,—a dread I have little conception of, when I flatter myself with the grand prize in the Heliconian lottery.
1798 Monthly Mag. 5 291/2 The grand prize was adjudged to, 1. Pierre Bouillon, a native of Thiviers, in the department of Dordogne.
1866 London Gaz. 26 June 3645/2 Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867... 17 grand prizes, each of the value of 2000 f.
1880 Rep. Paris Univ. Exhib. 1878 II. 365 100 Grand Prizes and exceptional awards in money.
1927 Motor Boating Sept. 168/1 The engine used by Mr. Putnam was a D class machine and he won the grand prize and the Elgin watch as well as a special Elto cup.
1999 Sci. Amer. Apr. 103/3 Edison may well have been the ‘Inventor of the age’, as he was orotundly described in the Grand Prize that he won at the Universal Exposition of 1878 in Paris.
grand quarter n. Heraldry a quarter that is itself quartered; cf. grand quartering n.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > escutcheon or shield > [noun] > division of shield > quarter > grand quarter
grand quarter1702
1702 A. Nisbet Ess. Addit. Figures & Marks of Cadency 234 His Lordships Armorial Ensign is quarterly, first grand Quarter counter quartered Hume and Pepdie.
1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) ii. 45 If one or more of these quarters should be subdivided into other like divisions, it is said to be Quarterly-quartered; and the quarter thus quartered is called a Grand quarter.
1896 J. Woodward Heraldry II. 102 It may happen that one of the heiresses whose arms are to be quartered, herself bore a quartered coat, in this case the quarter appropriated to her contains her whole bearings..and..is called a Grand-quarter.
1969 J. Franklyn & J. Tanner Encycl. Dict. Heraldry 271/1 In Scotland, quarters are limited to four, but each may be a grand quarter, i.e. a quarter which is itself quarterly of four sub-quarters.
1988 T. Woodcock & J. M. Robinson Oxf. Guide to Heraldry vii. 136 Such impartible quarters as in the first and fourth quarters are known as grand quarters.
grand quartering n. Heraldry a quartering that is itself quartered; the use of such quartering on a shield.
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1800 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 712/2 The royal arms in future might be marshalled in six grand quarterings: 1. England; 2. Scotland; 3. Ireland; 4. East-Indies (an elephant); 5. West-Indies (an aligator) ; 6 the usual arms of Brunswick.
1889 C. N. Elvin Dict. Heraldry 88/1 Marshalling, a Grand Quartering..usually accompanies the assumption of a second name, and unites the two associated coats so inseparably, that if they come to be Marshalled with other quarterings they are no longer (as in other cases) spread out among them, but they still remain together as a Grand Quartering.
1956 T. Innes Scots Heraldry (ed. 2) xi. 150 If a coat of arms is complicated by numerous quarterings or grand-quarterings, it is considered admissible in small work..to display the first quarter only.
1962 H. Allcock Heraldic Design 27 In Scotland..the quarters are held to four by the system of Grand Quartering.
2003 Mythlore 32 95 I shall avoid all reference to escutcheons, fesses, lozenges, grand quartering, marks of cadency, and the like.
grand relief n. = alto-relievo n. 1; frequently figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > [noun] > relief > high relief
great relief1634
alto-relievo1664
grand relief1703
alt-relief1748
alto relief1772
haut-relief1850
1703 Hist. Wks. Learned Mar. 154 The Victory of Flerus is represented in grand Relief.
1768 E. Holdsworth Remarks & Diss. Virgil 95 The famous base at Pozzuoli..on which are fourteen figures in grand relief.
1829 Friendship's Offering 115 He could see from it the mountain of Lowther..: its huge shoulders and top were distinctly visible, standing forth in grand relief from the red clouds above and behind it.
1841 A. Strickland Lives Queens of Eng. I. 164 A very large red seal, whereon, without doubt, was impressed her effigy in grand relief.
1905 J. H. Jowett Epistles of Peter (1993) ii. 19 The ‘manifold trials’ set out in grand relief that which might have remained a commonplace.
2009 A. Clendenan Experiencing Hildegard i. 24 The Rupertsburg Monastery..stood out in grand relief on the hillside.
Grand Remonstrance n. a lengthy petition presented by the House of Commons to Charles I in 1641, indicting his reign and containing drastic proposals for reform of the Church and State.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [noun] > a complaint > formal or public > specific
Grand Remonstrance1648
1641 (title) A remonstrance of the state of the kingdom.]
1648 Rebellion Strip't & Whipt 18 Having also declared in that grand Remonstrance to the Kingdome, that their intent was to restore the ancient honour, greatnesse and security of the Crowne.
1649 Certaine Observ. Tryall J. Lilburne 9 The main and principall end of all the Warres they pretended, was for the Peoples Liberties and Freedoms, amongst all which they reckon Tryalls by Juries one of the chiefest, as clearly in their first grand Remonstrance, &c. appeareth.
1784 M. Noble Mem. Protectorate-house Cromwell I. App. P. 345 Would he have solemnly assured lord Faulkland, in 1641, that had not the grand remonstrance passed, ‘he would have sold all he had the next morning, and never have seen England more’.
1831 T. B. Macaulay in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 536 That celebrated address to the king..known by the name of the Grand Remonstrance.
1983 C. M. Hibbard Charles I & Popish Plot i. 14 When they ‘went public’..by printing pamphlets—the printing of the Grand Remonstrance is the starkest example here—they could..be charged with inflaming the minds of the people against the king.
grand round n. (a) Military a round made of a garrison or camp by an officer, governor, commandant, etc. (now historical, or in extended use outside of military context); (b) Medicine (usually in plural) a ward round (see round n.1 24b(b)) made by a superintending or senior physician or surgeon, in order to review the progress of the patients and to instruct junior staff; (in later use also) a lecture on a disease, treatment, or some other aspect of medical or surgical practice, delivered to hospital staff by an expert or specialist in the subject.
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1630 H. Hexham Hist. Relation Siege of Busse 11 His Excellencie and the king of Bohemia with their traine euery night about midnight going the Grand Round.
1768 T. Simes Mil. Medley (ed. 2) 267 The Captain of the main-guard is to go the grand round, and the Leiutenant is to go the visiting round.
1892 Trans. Forty-Second Ann. Meeting Illinois State Med. Soc. 457 In large insane asylums, as a rule, the superintendent makes the grand round but once a week, usually on Sunday.
1918 Bull. Lying-in Hosp. N.Y. 11 115 Grand rounds are conducted every Sunday morning by the attending in charge, and all the other attendings endeavor to be present and such post graduate physicians as care to come.
1963 Lancet 28 Dec. 1375/1 I took part in many ‘grand rounds’ but saw very little clinical teaching with small groups of students at the bedside.
2002 R. H. Beatie Army of Potomac x. 161 Each morning.., Colonel Hunter and his aide took Colonel Corcoran or Lieutenant Colonel Nugent of the Sixty-ninth New York on a ‘grand round’ to visit the most advanced sentries and pickets.
2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 Jan. e3/2 Some medical schools have prohibited drug representatives from visiting their campuses or providing speakers for hospital grand rounds to try to curb the influence of industry.
grand-scale adj. that is on a grand scale (cf. scale n.3 13b).
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1937 Life 1 Feb. 61/2 Producer-Director Lloyd..pictures grand scale romance of Virginia cavalier who dares mob rule for what the better Seventeenth Century script writers called love.
1959 Listener 29 Jan. 217/3 Today these works [of Wagner] are truly ‘popular’, the latest addition to the unquestioned grand-scale masterpieces.
1964 I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 22 A theoretical option to narrow empiricism and grand-scale rationalism.
1992 Matrix Summer 60/2 The least sinister of Julie's new friends is a grandscale punk artist who insists on being called ‘Frankenstein’.
2003 J. Connolly Wks. (2004) ix. 361 These canvases here, are these the ones you are referring to? The grand-scale action paintings just here and here, do you mean?
grand serjeanty n. English History a form of feudal tenure obliging the tenant to render a service to the monarch contributory to the defence of the country.
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1449Graunte Sergeaunte [see sense A. 3].
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. 12 And all these tenauntes maye holde their landes by dyuers tenures..as by..graunt sergentie, petyte sergentie, franke almoyne.
a1625 H. Finch Law (1636) 154 Euery grand Serieanty is a tenure in chiefe, being of none but of the King, to doe vnto him a more speciall seruice whatsoeuer by the person of a man, as to beare his Banner or Lance, to lead his horse, to carry the sword before him at his coronation [etc.].
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. v. 73 Such was the tenure by grand serjeanty, per magnum servitium, whereby the tenant was bound, instead of serving the king generally in his wars, to do some special honorary service to the king in person; as to carry his banner, his sword, or the like; or to be his butler, champion, or other officer at his coronation.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) III. 118 The office of High Steward was originally annexed to the manor of Hinckley in Leicestershire, and held in grand serjeanty.
1988 T. Woodcock & J. M. Robinson Oxf. Guide to Heraldry i. 2 Even such a leading twelfth-century magnate as William d'Aubigny, Earl of Arundel, held his vast estates in Norfolk and Sussex by grand serjeanty—the duty to serve as butler at the coronation banquet—not by military service.
2003 B. J. Sokol & M. Sokol Shakespeare, Law & Marriage iii. 43 Although wardship arose in the case of land held by socage (agricultural) tenure or by military tenure (knight service or grand serjeanty), it was most onerous in military tenure.
grand style n. (with the) a style considered appropriate for the expression of lofty ideas and great subjects in the arts.
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1706 in B. Kennett et al. tr. R. Rapin Whole Crit. Wks. II. sig. A5 The Grand Stile cannot succeed, unless it be supported by Great Thoughts.
1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 161 It gave what is called the grand stile to invention, to composition, to expression.
1868 J. R. Lowell Dryden in Prose Wks. (1890) III. 173 This is certainly..in what used to be called the grand style, at once noble and natural.
1944 D. Tovey Chamber Music vi. 94 The mature works of Haydn and Mozart are as truly in what Sir Joshua Reynolds calls ‘the grand style’ as those of Bach and Beethoven.
1984 G. McCaughrean Canterbury Tales (1988) 26 I vouch I could tell a story in the grand style about the most ordinary folk.
2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 May 16/2 In a general way, the three sections of Shadow Country use what classical rhetoric calls the plain, middle, and grand styles.
grand sum n. = grand total n.
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1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xv. xiii. 549 The summe of 10. is added to the grand-summe.
1611 S. Hieron Spirituall Sonne-ship 11 As I haue giuen you a bill, as it were of particulars, so I will now in a word tender vnto you the graund sum of all.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 294 Produce the grand summe of his sinnes, the Articles Collected from his life. View more context for this quotation
1792 J. Gunning Apol. Life Major-Gen. G—— 30 The sum total of my amours..amounts to sixty-six married women; sixty-two virgins; five maids of honour..; one old maid; and eleven widows; in all, amounting to the grand sum of One Hundred and Forty-Five Persons.
1899 Deb. House of Commons (Canada) 28 Mar. 551 The whole duty saved to the farming community under that reduction was the grand sum of $294, or one-twentieth of one cent each.
1905 Jrnl. 17th Ann. Convent. Diocese Oregon 17 If the 420,000 Sunday school children in our whole church give at this same rate, they will make up the grand sum of $218,400.
1988 Orange Coast Mag. Feb. 136/2 The average first-year expenses for new parents total $2,933... The largest expense? The grand sum of $770 spent for nursery items.
1995 Foresight (Sun Alliance) Winter 8/2 This split-windscreen Morris Minor was no spring chicken when he was purchased by Leslie Bell for the grand sum of £200.
grand tactics n. [after French la grande tactique (18th cent.)] Military tactics considered or executed on a grand scale.
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1810 Lit. Panorama Dec. 1488 Tactics, Logistics, Grand Tactics, Castrametation, Military Topography, Strategic, Dialectic, and Politics of War.
a1903 G. F. R. Henderson Sci. War (1905) vii. 168 Grand Tactics, the art of generalship, include those stratagems, manœuvres, and devices by which victories are won, and concern only those officers who may find themselves in independent command.
2012 Def. Jrnl. (Nexis) 31 Aug. Unlike the great campaign fought in the West in which grand tactics dominated, the Japanese Malaya campaign was a triumph of minor tactics.
Grand Tartar n. now historical a ruler of an empire established by Tartars or Mongols; the Mughal emperor; (also) the emperor of China during the Qing dynasty.
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1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Comm. Notable Thinges in tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 407 The prouince of Cambaya, subiect vnto the grand Tartar, or Mogor.
1668 J. Howe Blessednesse of Righteous viii. 132 Were it the Pope, or the Mufti, or the grand Tartar.
1741 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 5) at Dinner The Grand Tartar, emperor of China, after he has dined, makes publication by his heralds, that he gives leave to all the other kings..to go to Dinner.
1885 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Jan. 107/2 A letter to the Times will not bring the Grand Tartar to reason.
1998 D. S. Lopez Prisoners of Shangri-La (1999) i. 24 One of the earliest Catholic observers was the Dominican Jourdain Catalani de Séverac, who visited the empire of the ‘Grand Tartar’.
grand theft auto n. U.S. Law the crime of stealing a motor vehicle (see grand theft at sense A. 3); (also) a conviction for this crime; abbreviated GTA.
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1928 Los Angeles Times 24 July i. 21/7 The other youths, all of whom were booked on suspicion of grand theft auto, gave their names.
1929 Van Nuys (Calif.) News 15 Oct. 1/8 Cruz was booked at Van Nuys headquarters on a charge of grand theft auto.
1955 W. J. Sheldon Man who paid his Way v. 73 The spoken shorthand: GTA, Grand Theft Auto; ADW, Assault with a Deadly Weapon; CCW, Carrying Concealed Weapons.
1978 Washington Post 20 Mar. b9/3 There were eight felony arrests. Charges included..strong-arm robbery, attempted grand-theft auto and hit-and-run driving.
2011 C. Kirchoff Jaden Baker i. 18 Maybe she had a juvenile record of grand theft auto. A vision of the young Jenny, steering a Dodge Viper, a joint in one hand, came to mind.
grand total n. the sum of the sums of several groups of numbers; also ironically, with reference to a small amount.
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1602 in Montagu Musters Bk. (1935) 2 Grand tottal…222. 0i. 07.
1695 C. Davenant Ess. Ways & Means supplying War (table following p. 76) Grand Totals.
1714 W. Edgar Vectigalium Systema ii. 57 What remains is the Net Duties, which are to be brought to a grand Total with such other Duties as you have occasion to Work for in the vacant Spaces of the Bill.
1782 Scots. Mag. Nov. 584/1 Having deducted the same from the above grand total, find the expence of the war..to have amounted to the sum of 78,875,519l.
1826 A. C. Hutchison Pract. Observ. Surg. (ed. 2) 311 The subjoined document, shewing the total number of seamen and marines received into the three hospitals..making the grand total of 96,000.
1844 Parker v. Great Western Railway Company in Cases Relating to Railways & Canals 579 The grand total of weights and sums added up at the bottom.
1965 N.Y. Times Mag. Apr. 21/2 Ad agencies probably received between 15 and 17 per cent of the grand total, most of the cash coming in as commissions (or, more realistically, legal kickbacks).
2008 Washington Post 3 Jan. a1/4 And how many filled out cards promising to attend Thursday's caucuses? A grand total of—drumroll, please—nine.
grand unification n. Physics a conceptual unification of two or more different concepts in theoretical physics; spec. (the existence or prediction of) a grand unified theory; frequently attributive.
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1947 B. Hoffmann Strange Story of Quantum xv. 208 What a wonderful chance to create a theory of protons as a mere by-product of our theory of electrons. That would be really something; a grand unification if ever there was one.
1982 F. Miller College Physics (ed. 5) xxx. 810 Theoretical physicists are now working on a ‘grand unification’ scheme that would also include the S interaction.
1988 J. D. Barrow & F. J. Tipler Anthropic Cosmol. Princ. (rev. ed.) iv. 274 The gauge coupling at the grand unification energy.
2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Sept. 73/2 (advt.) A new understanding emerges concerning hyperspace, the nature of gravity, the so-called God particle and Einstein's dream of Grand Unification.
grand unified theory n. Physics a theory in which the strong, the weak, and the electromagnetic interactions between particles are treated mathematically as different manifestations of a single force; abbreviated GUT.
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the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > mutual relation of force and energy > unified theory
unified (field) theory1935
grand unified theory1977
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1976 Physics Lett. B. 63 217 The value of the angle required to unify weak, e.m. and strong interaction (grand unified schemes).]
1977 Nucl. Physics B. 22 Aug. 57 Spontaneous compactification can be used to provide the correct mass scale generating the superstrong symmetry breaking which, in grand unified theory, separates quarks from leptons.
1982 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 1982–3 440/1 The last, and the most ambitious, stage of unification deals with the possibility of combining grand unified and gravitation theories into a superunified theory.
2003 Connecting Quarks with Cosmos (U.S. National Res. Council: Div. Engin. & Phys. Sci.) ii. 29/2 Speculative extensions of the Standard Model, known as grand unified theories or as supersymmetric extensions, add even more symmetries.
Grand Union flag n. the flag of the thirteen American colonies which declared independence in 1776, consisting of red and white stripes with a Union Jack in the top corner near the hoist; cf. Union flag n. 2. historical in later use.
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1852 Notes & Queries 10 July 41/2 A letter from Boston..published in the Penna Gazette for January, 1776, says ‘The grand union flag was raised on the 2nd, in compliment to the united colonies.’
1896 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 4 Mar. 4 In December, 1775, on recommendation of a committee of congress, an emblem known as the ‘Grand Union’ flag was adopted.
1928 Rotarian June 26/3 The Grand Union flag..under which Washington had taken command of the army.
2013 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 4 July The second event..was the unfurling of what is known as the first flag of America, the Grand Union flag, which featured 13 characteristic red-and-white stripes with the British Union Jack in the canton.
grand vicar n. [after French grand vicaire (16th cent. or earlier)] Roman Catholic Church (now historical) (chiefly in France and French-speaking regions) a priest appointed by a bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction on his behalf; = vicar general n. 2a.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > bishop's officials > [noun] > grand vicar
grand vicar1662
1662 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1910) 8 236 Mr Hoden Grand Vicair of Paris being Superior.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) The Pope's Grand Vicar, who is a Cardinal, has a Jurisdiction..over all Secular and Regular Priests [etc.].
1796 H. M. Williams Lett. France IV. 102 One of my college companions had become grand-vicar and first confidant to the archbishop of my diocese.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 827/2 Faber, grand-vicar of the bishop of Constance.
1904 J. Conrad Nostromo (1997) ii. 187 Your uncle, the grand-vicar of the cathedral, has just turned under the gate.
1996 D. McDonald Lord Strathcona (2002) vi. 152 The grand vicar..worked as a missionary among the Métis and the Indians for nearly forty years.
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† grandv.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To make greater, magnify.
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improve1509
ampliatea1513
auge1542
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amplify1549
raise1583
grand1602
swell1602
magnoperate1610
greaten1613
accresce1626
aggrandize1638
majoratea1651
adauge1657
protend1659
reinforce1660
examplify1677
pluralize1750
to drive up1817
to whoop up1856
to jack up1884
upbuild1890
steepen1909
up1934
1602 J. Davies Mirum in Modum sig. G3v Which Grands his Goodnesse, and augments his fame.
1607 J. Davies Summa Totalis sig. B1 His Iustice to extenuate To graund his Grace is sacrilegious.
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