| 单词 |
patriciate |
| 释义 |
patriciate|pəˈtrɪʃɪət|
[ad. med.L. patrīciāt-us, f. patrīcius: see patrician n.1 and -ate1. So F. patriciat (1690 in Furetière).]
1. The position, dignity, or rank of a patrician; nobility of rank.
1656Blount Glossogr., Patriciate, the dignity and estate of them that descend of Senators. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Patrician, This new patriciate..was erected by Constantine, who conferred the quality on his counsellours. 1854Milman Lat. Chr. viii. ii. III. 292 The Patriciate and Defensorship of the city of Rome. Ibid. viii. ix. 544 The republic..recognised the sovereignty of the Pope; the patriciate was abolished, a prefect named with more limited powers.
b. The term or period of holding the dignity of a patrician (see patrician A. 1 b).
1875Freeman Sk. Venice, Spalato (1881) 145 The villa near Salona where the deposed Emperor Nepos was slain, during the patriciate of Odoacer.
2. A patrician order or class; the aristocracy.
1795tr. Mercier's Fragm. Pol. & Hist. I. 331 The patriciate was the gangrene of the republic, and had attacked the Senate itself. 1850Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) II. xi. 32 No aristocracy was ever more shortsighted at the crisis of its fate than the once glorious patriciate of Rome. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. I. v. 338 The English inhabitants formed a dominant class or patriciate. |
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