单词 | grand sophy |
释义 | > as lemmasGrand Sophy 1. A former title or designation of the supreme ruler of Persia; the Shah. Also Grand Sophy. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > other independent rulers > [noun] > shah Sophy1539 shah1566 Great King1576 Sophy1606 Sufi1698 padishah1758 Shahanshah1815 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > titles applied to royalty > for a king or ruler > for foreign king or ruler Sophy1539 shah1566 sophi1598 padishah1612 pangeran1616 Sophia1649 Nizam1769 rajaship1784 Shahanshah1815 inkosi1835 α. in extended use.1865 C. Kingsley Hereward in Good Words Feb. 83/2 Marry the Sophy of Egypt's daughter?β. 1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f.108v Vsnucassan kyng of Persia (whose successour is nowe called Sophie).1555 R. Eden tr. P. Giovio Libellus de legatione Basilii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 281 Ismael the Sophi and kynge of Persia.1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 24 The Turke against the Sophi, and the King against the Rebels in Flaunders.1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 301 At Cormoot we met a Lion and a Spotted Deer carrying up as Presents to the Sophi from the Mogul.1711 Fingall MSS in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 118 The grand Signior, or the Sophia of Persia, or the Czar of Russia.1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. xi. 295 He had discovered a negociation which had been carried on with the Sophi of Persia.1818 A. Ranken Hist. France V. ii. ii. 285 That ambitious warrior had..defeated the sophi of Persia.1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. i. 13 The sophi of Persia, his lords, and some ambassadors.1539 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 218 His declaracion was..that the Sophy King of Perse had an oratour with the Turke. a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) xxxvii. 214 The great Turke..hath obtayned the Sophyes lond. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. v. 174 I will not giue my part of this sport for a pension of thousands to be paid from the Sophy . View more context for this quotation 1667 London Gaz. No. 209/2 The Grand Sophy of Persia having observed the Grand Sultan to have his hands fully employed in the Siege of Candia. 1686 tr. J. Chardin Coronation Solyman 49–51 in Trav. Persia I cannot but laugh when I find in their writings the Grand Sophy, the Sophy of Persia, and the Sovereign Sophy. For the Kings of Persia are neither called Sophies in general, nor in particular. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 216 Revenues, which that Commerce brings into the Treasury of the Sophy. 1765 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) II. ii. 72 The Sophy of Persia and his court were extremely surprized at the art of engraving so hard a jewel. 1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. 299 The great tent..suggests a State pavilion of the Sophy. < as lemmas |
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