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单词 plantagenet
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Plantagenetn.adj.

Brit. /planˈtadʒᵻnᵻt/, /planˈtadʒn̩ᵻt/, U.S. /plænˈtædʒənət/
Forms: 1500s Plantagynett, 1500s–1600s Plantaginet, 1500s– Plantagenet, 1600s Plantagenist, 1700s Plantaganet, 1800s Plantagnet (irregular).
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Plantagenet.
Etymology: < Plantagenet (also spelt in English sources as Plantaganet, Plantagenett, Plantagenette, Plantaginet, Plantagynett, etc.), the name of a family (originally from the former French province of Anjou) whose members held the English throne from 1154 to 1485. The name was originally the sobriquet of Geoffrey of Plantagenet, Count of Anjou and father of Henry II, only much later becoming associated with his descendants as a family surname: see further Oxf. Dict. National Biogr. s.v. Henry II.In form Plantagenist after classical Latin genista genista n. (on the basis of the presumed etymology of the name ultimately < post-classical Latin planta genista, arising from Geoffrey of Plantagenet's reportedly having worn a sprig of broom in his helmet).
English History.
A. n.
A member of the English royal dynasty which held the throne from the accession of Henry II in 1154 to the death of Richard III in 1485, esp. one of the kings.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [noun] > member of specific European
Plantagenet?a1562
Merovingian1694
Capetian1836
Angevin1845
Carlovingian1845
Robertinian1852
Carolingian1894
Robertian1898
?a1562 G. Cavendish Metrical Visions in Life Wolsey (1825) II. 79 I was condempned without examynacion: Of the Plantagynetts last of that generation..Some tyme esteemed, and nowe in wordly shame.
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 193 It was ordained, that this Winding-luie of a Plantagenet, should kill the true Tree it selfe.
1723 R. Blackmore Alfred viii. 288 And now a fam'd Plantagenet shall wear Th' imperial Crown, and make the Realm his Care.
1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. ii. ii. 184 Is it for them to breathe garlick on the alliances of Bourbons and Plantagenets.
1883 Harper's Mag. Oct. 790/2 There was to be a gracious nobility of very blue blood which had been clarified in the veins of the Plantagenets.
1934 E. Pound Cavalcanti in T. S. Eliot Literary Ess. Ezra Pound (1954) 199 The ultimate Britons were at the date unbreeched, painted in woad, and grunting in an idiom far more difficult for us to master than the Langue d'Oc of the Plantagenets or the Lingua di Si.
1988 S. Shephard Black Justice (BNC) 23 I've always found Henry the Third's reign confusing. It's difficult to imagine him as a Plantagenet.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Plantagenet royal house or family.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [adjective] > specific European
Orange1647
Medicean1652
Merovingian1687
Plantagenet1716
Angevin1727
Carlovingian1781
Capetian1836
Ernestine1841
Carolingian1881
Robertine1896
Robertian1897
1716 Ann. King George 14 His Majesty is more early derived from the English Plantagenet Family, by Joan, Daughter to the Earl of Sommerset, of the House of Lancaster, who was married to King James I. of Scotland.
1765 Geogr. & Hist. Eng. ii. 320 Thus ended also the race of the Plantagenet kings, that had governed the kingdom for the space of three hundred and thirty years.
1831 Times 19 Apr. 1/5 The Bill of Rights..was also the result of the votes of the members for the close boroughs; and indeed, every measure on which this country prided itself that had passed the legislative from the time of the Plantagenet and Tudor dynasties.
1860 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) VI. 276 He had the arched eyebrow..of the beautiful Plantagenet face.
1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens vi. iv. l. 324 The Plantagenet yeast being strong within his sons.
1901 Daily Chron. 15 July 5/1 Royal lineage in our noble and gentle families is common enough:..most of them derive from the Plantagenet, and not from the pre-Conqueror kings.
1956 W. S. Churchill Hist. English-Speaking Peoples I. vii. 190 He possessed an original and inquiring mind... In him the restless energy of the Plantagenet race was raised to a furious pitch of instability.
1987 Year in Rev. in Sunday Times 27 Dec. 25/3 To find the poll tax, (the government) has gone back to the year 1380 and Richard II. It isn't Victorian values, it's..Plantagenet politics.
2001 Times 22 Jan. ii. 19/3 A dynamic young theatre director in Doc Martens with his Plantagenet hair flying.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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