patrician

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Philosophers, poets, priests, rulers, the highest as well as the lowest in the land, crowded these seats; but the applauding shout of the patrician was as loud and as eager as that of the plebeian.

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  1. noun A person of refined upbringing, manners, and tastes.
  2. noun A member of an aristocracy; an aristocrat.
  3. noun A member of one of the noble families of the ancient Roman Republic, which before the third century B.C. had exclusive rights to the Senate and the magistracies.
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  • He was a patrician, and looked down the long lines of his ancestry until they met in one of the canoes of the first Polynesian sea-rovers. —  Color Scheme - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 12: 1943
  • The new patrician, according to a custom common among Corsicans of his class, determined to take his degree at Pisa, and in November, 1769, he was made doctor of laws by that university. —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
  • Philosophers, poets, priests, rulers, the highest as well as the lowest in the land, crowded these seats; but the applauding shout of the patrician was as loud and as eager as that of the plebeian. —  The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome
  • A lady, or a girl--patrician, aristocratic to her finger-tips; very fair, striking to look upon! —  Half A Chance
  • Whether the difference between the prices of shoes for the patrician, the senator, and the knight (IX, 7-9) represents a difference in the cost of making the three kinds, or is a tax put on the different orders of nobility, cannot be determined. —  The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature
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  1. Middle English patricion, from Old French patricien, from Latin patricius, from patrēs (cōnscrīptī), enrolled fathers, senators, pl. of pater, patr-, father; see pəter- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also patritian; from F. patricien, from Middle Latin as if *patricianus, from Latin patricius (later Italian Spanish Portuguese patricio), rarely also patritius, of the rank or dignity of the patres, from pater, father, plural patres, the senators or nobles, ‘the fathers’: see patres conscripti and father.
 

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