单词 | bashaw |
释义 | bashawn. 1. a. The earlier form of the Turkish title pasha n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > for foreign persons of rank bashawa1535 altesse1559 monseigneur1561 sheikh1577 naik1588 bey1589 altezza1595 kamia1601 illustrissimo1623 donshipc1626 pasha1648 Rao1665 hospodar1684 beg1686 burra sahiba1827 inkosi1835 gospodar1847 Mgr1848 Rai Bahadur1871 Rai Sahib1905 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > governors by country > [noun] > Ottoman or Turkish sanjakbey1524 bashawa1535 sanjak1546 beglerbeg1586 bey1589 kehaya1594 kaimakam1645 pasha1648 hospodar1684 beg1686 vali1753 wali1811 gospodar1847 mutasarrif1873 a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. v. sig. O.iiv His Bassawes..surmount very farre aboue any christen estate. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxxxxii The Turke loste..fourescore thousande men, as one of his bassates did afterwarde confesse. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) x. lvii. 252 His Bands of Ianizaries..He out of these his Captaines, and his Bassies doth elect. 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 42 The Bassas..as it were Harpyes, sucke the verie bloud of the people. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 211 Or else, their Sultan-Populaces Still strangle all their routed Bassa's. 1693 tr. J. Le Clerc Mem. Count Teckely iv. 15 He created Vizier Ismal Bacha. 1695 P. Motteux tr. F. Pidou de St. Olon Present State Morocco 31 A Captain, to whom they give the Title of Baschar. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 17 May (1965) I. 355 Every Bassa has his Jew who is his Homme d'Affaires. 1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild iv. vii, in Misc. III. 333 He addressed me with the Insolence of a Basha to a Circassian Slave. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. iii. 79 I will offer service to one of the Turk's bashaws. b. bashaw of two or three tails: one of lower or higher rank, as indicated by the number of horsetails borne on his standard. ΚΠ 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 17 May (1965) I. 356 The Bassas of 3 Tails have those Ensigns of their power plac'd in a very conspicuous manner before their Tents. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea IV. vii. 58 He was appointed basha of three tails. 1798 J. Wolcot Tales of Hoy in Wks. (1812) IV. 422 He would fly to Constantinople, hang up a bashaw of three tails. 2. figurative. A grandee; a haughty, imperious man. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > haughtiness or disdainfulness > [noun] > person > man bashaw1593 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 42 The deuils chiefe Basso, Ambition. a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 82 In every Society of Men, there will be some Bashawes, who presume that there are many Rules of Law, from which they should be exempted. 1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams I. iii. 41 The young men..looked up to this insolent bashaw with timid respect. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch III. v. liii. 185 You've taken to being a nob, buying land, being a country bashaw. 3. Local name for a very large catfish of the species Pylodictis olivaris; the mud cat. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Siluriformes (catfish) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous member of sea-cat1601 gaff-topsail1794 mudpout1804 mudcat1819 blue cat1826 channel cat-fish1838 channel cat1847 sea-catfish1882 goujon1883 scorpion fish1883 bashaw1888 ground spearing1896 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 378 Leptops olivaris, the ‘Mud Cat’, ‘Yellow Cat’, ‘Goujon’, or ‘Bashaw’ is found in all the large rivers of the West and South. 1923 Public Opinion 12 Oct. 357/3 A good-sized fish, itself Carnivorous, called a basha. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.a1535 |
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