Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The elected chief magistrate of the former republics of Venice and Genoa.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The title of the chief magistrate of the old republics of Venice and Genoa. In Venice the office was established in the eighth century; the doge was chosen for life, at first by the citizens, but toward the end of the twelfth century the election was restricted to a small committee of the Great Council. The power and dignity of the doges were originally very great, but gradually became limited through the jealousy of the Venetian aristocracy. In Genoa the dignity was established in the fourteenth century; the doge was at first elected for life, but from the first part of the sixteenth century the term was restricted to two years, and the authority of the doge became more limited. The office disappeared in Venice in 1797, at the overthrow of the republic, and in Genoa in the same year, although there was a temporary restoration of it in the latter city a few years later.
Wiktionary
- n. historical The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
WordNet 3.0
- n. formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
Etymologies
- From Venetian or Italian doge, from Latin ducem, accusative of dux ("leader, prince"). (Wiktionary)
- Italian dialectal, from Latin dux, duc-, leader, from dūcere, to lead; see deuk- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A variant of duke was the medieval title doge, for the ruler of independent cities such as Genoa and”
“The Council of Ten referred to the doge as ίl vecchίo ίdίota— the old idiot—and they were so certain of his ineptitude that they never took a moment to look beyond the trembling hands and quivering chin which held steady enough when he dined alone.”
“Merchant of Venice or Venice, California) If you use a term like "doge", you get a few more, so perhaps poking around the search engine can shake more images loose.”
“There are no knickknacks or tchotchkes—just that marvelous old doge looming over the fireplace.”
“Imperial officials were bound by strict rules designed to prevent disloyalty and corruption; even the doge was "expressly barred from accepting gifts of any value from a foreign agency.”
“Plebeians, patricians!" cries Simon Boccanegra, the pirate turned doge of Genoa, in a plea for peace in the great council chamber scene of Verdi's elusive opera.”
“Since then, despite union strikes at La Scala and two months out dealing with a medical crisis, Domingo has toured his doge to Milan, New York and now London, with Madrid to follow.”
“Then the forty-five were once more reduced by lot to eleven, and the eleven finally chose the forty-one who actually elected the doge”
“New regulations for the elections of the doge introduced in 1268 remained in force until the end of the republic in 1797.”
“Venice doge palace said ... venice is unbelievable.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘doge’.
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POL - people in power
daredevil, tzar, king, boss, master, commander, chief, kingpin, top banana, bigwig, big cheese, big wheel and 452 more...
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harmonygritz's Cross Words
Words discovered while doing puzzles. Includes puns, e.g. taper vs. tapir.
hodad, hart, avocet, cahier, blackbird, brace, fetor, Bren, Rialto, bijou, liveried, stentor and 64 more...
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gained in translation
words are like eggs - they have to be broken to appreciate their baroquefinesse
mercy, merci, glory, glorieta, meant amor, much ..., ceraunograph, cannei, lighta, cutchery, forseti, doge, irenarch, pretor, chancery and 15 more...
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Actual and Spectulative Sburb Classes
A list of all known Heroic Classes available to players of the game Sburb within the Homestuck universe, as well as any other words I can think of which would theoretically adhere to the known guid...
heir, seer, knight, witch, maid, page, thief, mage, rogue, sylph, prince, bard and 116 more...
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The Innocents Abroad
Words rounded up while reading The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.
rakish, excursionist, bowelless, pilgrimizing, melodeon, woebegone, abaft, sextant, veriest, behindhand, stanchion, avast and 188 more...
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Fall Words 2009
sgraffito, maestá, tempera, size, gesso, obsolescence, hinterland, taboret, pram, amygdalate, pandect, loggia and 105 more...
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Take Me To Your Whosit
About leaders, particularly the authority-figure at the top of the tree.
leader, chief, boss, cap'n, executive, president, head, tsar, alpha male, alpha female, conductor, dean and 127 more...
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venezia
venetiae, benetke, doge, arsenal, serenissima, sposalizio del mar, lido, lagoon, sestiere, san marco, san polo, santa croce and 17 more...
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Noblesse Oblige
Noble, leadership and ranking titles.
voivod, vavasour, duke, count, earl, herzog, viscount, khan, viceroy, czar, castellan, châtelain and 43 more...
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Words I had to Look Up. Srsly.
These are words I've encountered reading that I've had to look up on-the-spot.
execrable, ex cathedra, liminal, elegiac, synecdoche, desuetude, disingenuous, parallelopiped, vulpine, probity, amanuensis, mustelid and 67 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for doge.
rolig "Throughout the Exarchate of Ravenna the rebellious garrisons … chose their own commanders and asserted their independence. In the lagoon communities, their choice fell on a certain Ursus, or Orso, from Heraclea, who was placed at the head of the former provincial administration and given the title of Dux.
"There was nothing especially remarkable about this last development…. What distinguishes Venice from the rest is the fact that Orso's appointment inaugurated a tradition which was to continue, unbroken, for over a thousand years; and that his title, transformed by the rough Venetian dialect into Doge, was to pass down through 117 successors before the Republic's end."
– John Julius Norwich, A History of Venice (London: Penguin, 2003), 13. Aug 17, 2008