Medicean
/ˌmɛdɪˈtʃiːən
/ /ˌmɛdɪˈsiːən/ /mɛˈdiːtʃɪən /adjective
Relating to the Medici family.Ruling families like the Medici cleverly manipulated their own role in the Council through sumptuous art objects like Gozzoli's frescoes that claimed Medicean pre-eminence in bringing about the Decree of Union....
- The outcome of this shocking naivety was that the sons of Brutus - that is, the partisans of the Medici - survived to destroy him and restore the Medicean tyranny after the debacle of 1512.
- These last, with an eye to getting a position in Florence, he quickly named ‘the Medicean stars'.
Rhymes
- have eyes like a hawk
- have eyes like saucers
- have got
- have-got
- have (got) a good head on one's shoulders
- have (got) another think coming
- have got it bad (or badly)
- have (got) it in for
- have (got) it in one (to do something)
- have (got) it made
- have (got) no idea
- have (got) nothing on
- have (got) someone's back
- have (got) something on
- have (got) something on the brain
- have (got) something to oneself
- have (got) —— to do with
- have had a drop too much
- have had a good innings
- have had it
- have had it up to here
- have had one's chips
- have had one's (or its) day
- have it
- have it away (on one's toes)