patriciann.¹adj.¹

Brit.

/pəˈtrɪʃn/, U.S.

/pəˈtrɪʃ(ə)n/

Forms: late Middle English patricion, 1500s– patrician, 1600s–1700s patritian; Scottish pre-1700 patriciane, pre-1700 1700s– patrician.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element; perhaps partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: Latin patricius , -an suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin patricius (in post-classical Latin also patritius ) (noun) member of the ancient Roman nobility, in post-classical Latin also honorary title conferred on high-ranking officials (4th cent.), honorary title for the Byzantine exarch of Ravenna, provincial governor (6th cent.), title conferred on Pepin III (8th cent.), (adjective) belonging to the ancient Roman nobility ( < patr- , pater father (see pater n.²) + -icius : see -itious suffix¹) + -an suffix, perhaps partly after Middle French patricien (French patricien ) (noun) member of the ancient Roman nobility (1355), (adjective) belonging to the ancient Roman nobility (1559; the remaining senses of the noun and adjective are not paralleled in French until later). Compare patrice n.Classical Latin patricius originally denoted a member of the noble families (gentēs ) of Rome, i.e. those who traced their descent from the patrēs , the senators appointed by Romulus, the founder of the city, or subsequently by Tarquinius Priscus. Frequently opposed to plēbēius (see plebeian n. and adj.). In sense A. 1c after Italian †patricio (14th cent. or earlier in this sense; now patrizio). Compare also German†Patricier member of the ancient Roman nobility, gentleman of the Free Cities of the Holy Roman Empire (1797 or earlier; already in 1579 in Latinate form Patricius, in both of the above senses; now Patrizier).

A. n.¹

a. In the later Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire: a person on whom had been bestowed the title patricius or πατρἴκιος, a non-hereditary honorific without responsibilities introduced by Constantine the Great (d. 337), and subsequently conferred on provincial governors, commanders in chief of the Roman army, and later on Frankish kings. In later use also: a title conferred by the Pope on Pepin III in 754 and borne by his son Charlemagne and his successors. historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > governors by country > [noun] > in later Roman or Holy Roman Empire

patrician?a1475

irenarch1702

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of > patrician > member of patrician order of Rome

patrician?a1475

optimate1574

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 271 Nichoforus the patricion [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. Nichoforus Patricius], honorede and luffede moche of the seide Yrene.

1647 J. Fletcher Valentinian IV. iii. 18 If you do it, you enjoy the noble name Patrician: more than that too, The Friend of Cesar ye are stild.

1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Persian Wars i. 13 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian The Emperour Justine..sent Probus, Sisters son to the late Emperour Anastasius, a Patritian, with money to raise an army of Hunnes for his ayd.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1846) IV. xlix. 486 The importance and danger of those remote provinces [sc. Italy and Africa] required the presence of a supreme magistrate; he was indifferently styled the exarch or the patrician.

1861 J. G. Sheppard Fall of Rome vi. 287 Theoderic set forth to take possession of his new inheritance, in the character of ‘Patrician by the emperor's appointment’.

1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 205 The Pope..anointing..Pepin and his two sons [in 754]..as Patricians of the Romans thus occupying the condition of the Exarch.

1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 411/1 It was as patrician of Rome that the emperor Henry IV. claimed the right to depose Pope Gregory VII [in 1076]. The title was abolished by Pope Eugenius III. in 1145.

1988 B. Stewart Charlemagne (BNC) 25 Prince Adelchis had become a client or patrician at the court of Constantinople; this left Charles free to have himself proclaimed as king in Italy.

b. Roman History. A Roman noble; (originally) spec. a person belonging, or reputed to belong, to any of the original citizen families (gentes) of ancient Rome, from which, in the early Republic, the senators, consuls, and pontifices were exclusively chosen. Opposed to plebeian.In Imperial Rome the rank of patrician ceased to be purely hereditary: new patricians were appointed by the emperor.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of > patrician

patrice?1530

patrician1533

eupatrid1836

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) iv. 317 No plebeane will tak the dochter of ane patriciane but hir consent.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. iii. 14 There hath beene in Rome straunge Insurrections: The people, against the Senatours, Patricians, and Nobles.

1695 Ld. Preston Life Boethius in tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. 25 He also design'd upon the Lives of several others of the Patritians.

1714 S. Garth Dispensary (ed. 7) ii. 17 Gold makes a Patrician of a Slave.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1846) II. xvii. 24 The proudest and most perfect separation..between the nobles and the people, is perhaps that of the Patricians and the Plebeians,..in the first age of the Roman republic.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar vi. 54 He [sc. Sulla] was a patrician of the purest blood.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 386/2 On his return to Rome..he was made censor, raised to the rank of patrician, and appointed governor of Aquitania.

1989 Guardian 7 Dec. 28/8 O'Conor also makes Menenius infinitely more than a wily patrician: he seems the only one capable of communicating sanely with the several, warring factions.

c. A hereditary noble citizen of any of several Italian republics, as Venice, Genoa, etc. Also: a ‘gentleman’ or member of the higher order of the Free Cities of the German Empire. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of > patrician > of Italy or Germany

patrician1611

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. L8 Some worthy Duke or Patritian of Venice.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 239 The Patritians [of the Imperiall Free Cities] liue vpon their reuenues, as Gentlemen.

1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) i. ii. 9 The sentence past on Michel Steno, born Patrician.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 318/1 At Venice, the name of patrician was given to the members of the great council..and their descendants. Patrizio Veneto was a title of nobility, considered equal to that of any feudal noble not of a sovereign house.

1884 W. D. Howells Tuscan Cities 38 Prince Strozzi and other patricians of Florence.

1932 J. Bithell Germany (1955) 236 The Comedy of the Crocodile, a satire on the Nuremberg patricians.

1987 C. Brooke Europe in Central Middle Ages (ed. 2) 146 One of the finest of the towers commemorates Gregorio di Gregorio, a third generation patrician of the early thirteenth century.

d. gen. A person of noble birth or rank, an aristocrat; a person of high social status, esp. one from an established wealthy family; a member of the upper classes.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of

optimate1574

gentle blood1575

patrician1631

grandlinga1637

(man, woman) of fashion1702

Brahmani1704

ruffled shirt1754

aristocrat1789

thoroughbred1817

Brahmin1823

big bug1826

ruffle shirt1830

ruffle-shirter1842

blue blood1850

aristo1864

upper1955

1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 11 If you sue to a [City] Company consisting of many persons Tradesmen, you must enquire who bee the most potent Patritians..amongst them.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 3 Say great Patricians! (since yourselves inspire These wond'rous works..).

1786 H. Cowley Sc. Village Pref. p. vii If the Cottager did not boast views as delightful as the Nabob and the Patrician, the whole province might be mistaken for one vast artificial pleasure-ground.

1841 R. W. Emerson Conservative in Wks. (1881) II. 264 The battle of patrician and plebeian..reappears in all countries and times.

1860 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 259 At the accession of George III. the patricians were yet at the height of their good fortune.

1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 67/2 She did not feel she could confide in this slim young patrician.

1948 J. Rosenberg Rembrandt I. i. 5 A sharper division between the patricians and the lower middle class developed only later in the century.

1990 J. Cummings & E. Volkman Goombata viii. 212 A patrician of the WASP establishment, Nickerson spoke in an upper-class accent know in New York as ‘Locust Valley lockjaw’.

†2. A patristic scholar. Obsolete.Only in Coleridge.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > patristics > [noun] > student of

schoolmanc1540

patrologist1716

patriciana1834

patristic1842

patrist1882

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 279 So great a scholar, so profound a Patrician, as Jeremy Taylor was.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1839) IV. 47 Luther was no great Patrician.

B. adj.¹

1. Of or relating to the patricians of ancient Rome. Opposed to plebeian.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [adjective] > belonging to patricians of ancient Rome

patrician1533

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. 37/10 Thai chesit two men of the lynnage patriciane.

1596 ‘L. Piot’ tr. A. van den Busche Orator sig. C5 You will impute me for fauoring more the Plebeians then Patrician faction.

1713 J. Addison Cato i. i His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvii. 30 Cæsar and Augustus..created from the body of the senate a competent number of new Patrician families.

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 59 The power thus vested in the senate truly belonged to the patrician order; because the senate was originally composed entirely of that class.

1957 R. Graves tr. Suetonius Twelve Caesars iii. 109 The patrician branch of the Claudian House..came to Rome from..Regilli.

1981 N. Currer-Briggs Debrett's Guide to Tracing Ancestry i. 32 Before the Roman Empire collapsed, the falsifying of patrician pedigrees back to Aeneas was a noted feature of that civilization.

2. gen. Of or relating to a person of noble birth or high social status; aristocratic, noble. Now chiefly: resembling or characteristic of an upper-class person. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [adjective]

aristocratic1596

select1602

qualified1604

patrician?1614

classical1629

aristocratical1742

ruffle-shirted1805

connected1817

thoroughbred1821

upper1825

eupatrid1833

optimate1846

classy1870

silver-tailed1890

upper-bracket1945

upscale1966

?1614 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Odysses Ep. Ded. Let Death then reaue My life now lost in our Patrician Loues.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 193 In free Cities, here the Patritian Order, there the common people, and otherwhere both with mixed power gouerne the City.

1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music 193 The Patrician Ladies, who lately had reveled amidst the Spoils of a subjected World.

1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry (1937) I. i. 19 There is in every government a patrician class, against whom the spirit of the multitude naturally militates.

1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1984) 32 The transmission of this property from generation to generation in the same name raised up a distinct set of families who,..were thus formed into a Patrician order.

1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 143 The dignity of ages afforded by the Oak, that truly patrician tree.

1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel IV. xii. xxxiii. 258 His handsome countenance, his patrician air.

1920 Amer. Woman Aug. 5/2 How he must have taxed to the uttermost both her patrician courtesy and her generosity of nature.

1964 S. Bellow Herzog (1965) 305 He knew her ways so well, all her airs, the patrician style.

2002 S. Brett Torso in Town (2003) i. 2 The couple in the next road..seemed to have no money, but dressed in worn well-cut tweeds and spoke in patrician accents.

3. Designating various aristocratic or non-popular parties and factions of modern times. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [adjective] > types of party generally

patrician1813

national1828

progressive1830

progressist1843

conservative1845

republican1873

nationalist1884

mobilist1966

green1973

1813 Ann. Reg. 1812 Gen. Hist. 205/2 The patrician body of troops..turned out the whole of their officers from the barracks.

1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) II. ix. 3 The Earl in his quarrels..with the patrician party rapidly forming against him in the States.

1969 S. N. Eisenstadt Polit. Syst. Empires 14 The rulers had to find allies, whether passive or active, who could enable them to achieve their goals in spite of these various aristocratic or patrician forces.

1996 P. W. Schroeder Transformation European Politics 513 Austria abandoned the patrician party in Bern it had earlier encouraged.

Derivatives

paˈtricianhood n. rare = patricianship n.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of > patrician > position of patrician

patriciate1656

patricianate1856

patricianship1867

patricianhood1885

1885 A. Forbes Souvenirs of Continents 226 In Virginia,..there was a good deal of ancestral patricianhood.

1983 H. Best Debrett's Texas Peerage 12 There emerged the idea of a..classification..of real American patricianhood and of its life-styles,..its behavioral peculiarities and occasional eccentricities.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	patrician
释义	patriciann.¹adj.¹ Brit. /pəˈtrɪʃn/, U.S. /pəˈtrɪʃ(ə)n/ Forms: late Middle English patricion, 1500s– patrician, 1600s–1700s patritian; Scottish pre-1700 patriciane, pre-1700 1700s– patrician. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element; perhaps partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: Latin patricius , -an suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin patricius (in post-classical Latin also patritius ) (noun) member of the ancient Roman nobility, in post-classical Latin also honorary title conferred on high-ranking officials (4th cent.), honorary title for the Byzantine exarch of Ravenna, provincial governor (6th cent.), title conferred on Pepin III (8th cent.), (adjective) belonging to the ancient Roman nobility ( < patr- , pater father (see pater n.²) + -icius : see -itious suffix¹) + -an suffix, perhaps partly after Middle French patricien (French patricien ) (noun) member of the ancient Roman nobility (1355), (adjective) belonging to the ancient Roman nobility (1559; the remaining senses of the noun and adjective are not paralleled in French until later). Compare patrice n.Classical Latin patricius originally denoted a member of the noble families (gentēs ) of Rome, i.e. those who traced their descent from the patrēs , the senators appointed by Romulus, the founder of the city, or subsequently by Tarquinius Priscus. Frequently opposed to plēbēius (see plebeian n. and adj.). In sense A. 1c after Italian †patricio (14th cent. or earlier in this sense; now patrizio). Compare also German†Patricier member of the ancient Roman nobility, gentleman of the Free Cities of the Holy Roman Empire (1797 or earlier; already in 1579 in Latinate form Patricius, in both of the above senses; now Patrizier). A. n.¹ 1. a. In the later Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire: a person on whom had been bestowed the title patricius or πατρἴκιος, a non-hereditary honorific without responsibilities introduced by Constantine the Great (d. 337), and subsequently conferred on provincial governors, commanders in chief of the Roman army, and later on Frankish kings. In later use also: a title conferred by the Pope on Pepin III in 754 and borne by his son Charlemagne and his successors. historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > governors by country > [noun] > in later Roman or Holy Roman Empire patrician?a1475 irenarch1702 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of > patrician > member of patrician order of Rome patrician?a1475 optimate1574 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 271 Nichoforus the patricion [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. Nichoforus Patricius], honorede and luffede moche of the seide Yrene. 1647 J. Fletcher Valentinian IV. iii. 18 If you do it, you enjoy the noble name Patrician: more than that too, The Friend of Cesar ye are stild. 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Persian Wars i. 13 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian The Emperour Justine..sent Probus, Sisters son to the late Emperour Anastasius, a Patritian, with money to raise an army of Hunnes for his ayd. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1846) IV. xlix. 486 The importance and danger of those remote provinces [sc. Italy and Africa] required the presence of a supreme magistrate; he was indifferently styled the exarch or the patrician. 1861 J. G. Sheppard Fall of Rome vi. 287 Theoderic set forth to take possession of his new inheritance, in the character of ‘Patrician by the emperor's appointment’. 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 205 The Pope..anointing..Pepin and his two sons [in 754]..as Patricians of the Romans thus occupying the condition of the Exarch. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 411/1 It was as patrician of Rome that the emperor Henry IV. claimed the right to depose Pope Gregory VII [in 1076]. The title was abolished by Pope Eugenius III. in 1145. 1988 B. Stewart Charlemagne (BNC) 25 Prince Adelchis had become a client or patrician at the court of Constantinople; this left Charles free to have himself proclaimed as king in Italy. b. Roman History. A Roman noble; (originally) spec. a person belonging, or reputed to belong, to any of the original citizen families (gentes) of ancient Rome, from which, in the early Republic, the senators, consuls, and pontifices were exclusively chosen. Opposed to plebeian.In Imperial Rome the rank of patrician ceased to be purely hereditary: new patricians were appointed by the emperor. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of > patrician patrice?1530 patrician1533 eupatrid1836 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) iv. 317 No plebeane will tak the dochter of ane patriciane but hir consent. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. iii. 14 There hath beene in Rome straunge Insurrections: The people, against the Senatours, Patricians, and Nobles. View more context for this quotation 1695 Ld. Preston Life Boethius in tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. 25 He also design'd upon the Lives of several others of the Patritians. 1714 S. Garth Dispensary (ed. 7) ii. 17 Gold makes a Patrician of a Slave. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1846) II. xvii. 24 The proudest and most perfect separation..between the nobles and the people, is perhaps that of the Patricians and the Plebeians,..in the first age of the Roman republic. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar vi. 54 He [sc. Sulla] was a patrician of the purest blood. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 386/2 On his return to Rome..he was made censor, raised to the rank of patrician, and appointed governor of Aquitania. 1989 Guardian 7 Dec. 28/8 O'Conor also makes Menenius infinitely more than a wily patrician: he seems the only one capable of communicating sanely with the several, warring factions. c. A hereditary noble citizen of any of several Italian republics, as Venice, Genoa, etc. Also: a ‘gentleman’ or member of the higher order of the Free Cities of the German Empire. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of > patrician > of Italy or Germany patrician1611 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. L8 Some worthy Duke or Patritian of Venice. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 239 The Patritians [of the Imperiall Free Cities] liue vpon their reuenues, as Gentlemen. 1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) i. ii. 9 The sentence past on Michel Steno, born Patrician. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 318/1 At Venice, the name of patrician was given to the members of the great council..and their descendants. Patrizio Veneto was a title of nobility, considered equal to that of any feudal noble not of a sovereign house. 1884 W. D. Howells Tuscan Cities 38 Prince Strozzi and other patricians of Florence. 1932 J. Bithell Germany (1955) 236 The Comedy of the Crocodile, a satire on the Nuremberg patricians. 1987 C. Brooke Europe in Central Middle Ages (ed. 2) 146 One of the finest of the towers commemorates Gregorio di Gregorio, a third generation patrician of the early thirteenth century. d. gen. A person of noble birth or rank, an aristocrat; a person of high social status, esp. one from an established wealthy family; a member of the upper classes. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of optimate1574 gentle blood1575 patrician1631 grandlinga1637 (man, woman) of fashion1702 Brahmani1704 ruffled shirt1754 aristocrat1789 thoroughbred1817 Brahmin1823 big bug1826 ruffle shirt1830 ruffle-shirter1842 blue blood1850 aristo1864 upper1955 1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 11 If you sue to a [City] Company consisting of many persons Tradesmen, you must enquire who bee the most potent Patritians..amongst them. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 3 Say great Patricians! (since yourselves inspire These wond'rous works..). 1786 H. Cowley Sc. Village Pref. p. vii If the Cottager did not boast views as delightful as the Nabob and the Patrician, the whole province might be mistaken for one vast artificial pleasure-ground. 1841 R. W. Emerson Conservative in Wks. (1881) II. 264 The battle of patrician and plebeian..reappears in all countries and times. 1860 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 259 At the accession of George III. the patricians were yet at the height of their good fortune. 1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 67/2 She did not feel she could confide in this slim young patrician. 1948 J. Rosenberg Rembrandt I. i. 5 A sharper division between the patricians and the lower middle class developed only later in the century. 1990 J. Cummings & E. Volkman Goombata viii. 212 A patrician of the WASP establishment, Nickerson spoke in an upper-class accent know in New York as ‘Locust Valley lockjaw’. †2. A patristic scholar. Obsolete.Only in Coleridge. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > patristics > [noun] > student of schoolmanc1540 patrologist1716 patriciana1834 patristic1842 patrist1882 a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 279 So great a scholar, so profound a Patrician, as Jeremy Taylor was. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1839) IV. 47 Luther was no great Patrician. B. adj.¹ 1. Of or relating to the patricians of ancient Rome. Opposed to plebeian. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [adjective] > belonging to patricians of ancient Rome patrician1533 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. 37/10 Thai chesit two men of the lynnage patriciane. 1596 ‘L. Piot’ tr. A. van den Busche Orator sig. C5 You will impute me for fauoring more the Plebeians then Patrician faction. 1713 J. Addison Cato i. i His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvii. 30 Cæsar and Augustus..created from the body of the senate a competent number of new Patrician families. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 59 The power thus vested in the senate truly belonged to the patrician order; because the senate was originally composed entirely of that class. 1957 R. Graves tr. Suetonius Twelve Caesars iii. 109 The patrician branch of the Claudian House..came to Rome from..Regilli. 1981 N. Currer-Briggs Debrett's Guide to Tracing Ancestry i. 32 Before the Roman Empire collapsed, the falsifying of patrician pedigrees back to Aeneas was a noted feature of that civilization. 2. gen. Of or relating to a person of noble birth or high social status; aristocratic, noble. Now chiefly: resembling or characteristic of an upper-class person. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [adjective] aristocratic1596 select1602 qualified1604 patrician?1614 classical1629 aristocratical1742 ruffle-shirted1805 connected1817 thoroughbred1821 upper1825 eupatrid1833 optimate1846 classy1870 silver-tailed1890 upper-bracket1945 upscale1966 ?1614 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Odysses Ep. Ded. Let Death then reaue My life now lost in our Patrician Loues. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 193 In free Cities, here the Patritian Order, there the common people, and otherwhere both with mixed power gouerne the City. 1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music 193 The Patrician Ladies, who lately had reveled amidst the Spoils of a subjected World. 1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry (1937) I. i. 19 There is in every government a patrician class, against whom the spirit of the multitude naturally militates. 1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1984) 32 The transmission of this property from generation to generation in the same name raised up a distinct set of families who,..were thus formed into a Patrician order. 1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 143 The dignity of ages afforded by the Oak, that truly patrician tree. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel IV. xii. xxxiii. 258 His handsome countenance, his patrician air. 1920 Amer. Woman Aug. 5/2 How he must have taxed to the uttermost both her patrician courtesy and her generosity of nature. 1964 S. Bellow Herzog (1965) 305 He knew her ways so well, all her airs, the patrician style. 2002 S. Brett Torso in Town (2003) i. 2 The couple in the next road..seemed to have no money, but dressed in worn well-cut tweeds and spoke in patrician accents. 3. Designating various aristocratic or non-popular parties and factions of modern times. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [adjective] > types of party generally patrician1813 national1828 progressive1830 progressist1843 conservative1845 republican1873 nationalist1884 mobilist1966 green1973 1813 Ann. Reg. 1812 Gen. Hist. 205/2 The patrician body of troops..turned out the whole of their officers from the barracks. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) II. ix. 3 The Earl in his quarrels..with the patrician party rapidly forming against him in the States. 1969 S. N. Eisenstadt Polit. Syst. Empires 14 The rulers had to find allies, whether passive or active, who could enable them to achieve their goals in spite of these various aristocratic or patrician forces. 1996 P. W. Schroeder Transformation European Politics 513 Austria abandoned the patrician party in Bern it had earlier encouraged. Derivatives paˈtricianhood n. rare = patricianship n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of > patrician > position of patrician patriciate1656 patricianate1856 patricianship1867 patricianhood1885 1885 A. Forbes Souvenirs of Continents 226 In Virginia,..there was a good deal of ancestral patricianhood. 1983 H. Best Debrett's Texas Peerage 12 There emerged the idea of a..classification..of real American patricianhood and of its life-styles,..its behavioral peculiarities and occasional eccentricities. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † Patriciann.² Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Patriciani. Etymology: < post-classical Latin Patriciani, plural (4th cent.) < Patricius , the name of the founder of the sect, teacher of Symmachus the Marcionite + classical Latin -ānī , plural of -ānus -an suffix. Church History. Obsolete. rare. A member of a sect founded by Patricius in the 4th cent., who taught that the flesh was created by the Devil rather than God. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Patrician > [noun] Patrician1659 1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. §x, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) The Patricians, Hermians, Proclianits. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Patricians, or Paternians, ancient Sectaries, who disturbed the Church in the Beginning of the third Century. 1886 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects (new ed.) 412/1 Prædestinatus says that the Patricians sprung from the northern parts of Numidia and Mauritania. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2019). Patricianadj.² Brit. /pəˈtrɪʃn/, U.S. /pəˈtrɪʃ(ə)n/ Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Patricius , -an suffix. Etymology: < post-classical Latin Patricius, the name of St Patrick, patron saint of Ireland (see patrick n.) + -an suffix. Of, relating to, or founded by St Patrick. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > particular saints > [adjective] > Patrick Patrician1872 1872 A. T. de Vere Legends St. Patrick p. x In the legends of the Patrician Cycle the chief-loving old Bard is ever mournful. 1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 1113 The Patrician Church was independent of Rome. 1932 Universe 26 Feb. 3/2 The Patrician sites in Co. Down. 1950 Month May 379 Five chapters..with an introduction on Patrician scholarship past and present. 1994 Irish Times (Nexis) 1 Dec. 15 You forget, sir, that you address the wife of the Archbishop of the Ancient and Patrician Church of Ireland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹adj.¹?a1475n.²1659adj.²1872
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