gregarianadj.
/ɡrɪˈɡɛːrɪən/ rare.
Belonging to the herd or common sort. Of a soldier: Common, private (= Latin gregārius miles).
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [adjective]
landish1489
popil1531
popular1533
secular1589
plebeial1590
plebeian1602
vulgar1605
plebal1606
multitudinousa1616
gregarian1632
gregary1640
populous1657
roturière1791
demotic1831
vulgarian1833
demic1834
commonal1865
communal1878
folkish1938
plebby1962
pleb1972
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > common soldier > [adjective]
rascal?1535
gregarian1632
rank and file1713
stripeless1900
G.I.1936
1632 T. Hawkins tr. P. Matthieu Vnhappy Prosperitie i. 112 Even as the meanest gregarian souldier.
1640 Bp. H. King Serm. 16 Those Gregarian sparks, those Plebeian lesser Starres, which people the skie.
1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. i. 2 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) The Gregarian Soldiers and gross of the Army is well-affected to him.
Derivatives
greˈgarianism n. the practice of collecting in flocks or companies.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > assembling of people or animals > condition of or tendency to
congregation1835
gregariousness1840
congregativeness1841
gregarianism1881
1881 Truth 13 Oct. 460/1 The tendency to gregarianism is nowhere more manifest than along the Riviera.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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adj.1632