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Patrician meaning
A member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the senior class of Romans, who, with certain property, had by right a seat in the Roman Senate. | A person of high birth; a nobleman. | One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore or life.
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A plebeian branch of the gens, the Claudii Marcelli, retained the supposedly patrician spelling, while there is some inscriptional evidence that the -o- form may also have been used on occasion by close male relatives of the "patrician tribune" Clodius.
Of these aediles, two were plebeian and two were patrician, with the patrician aediles called Curule Aediles.
Billups said Patrician runs the same offense Pickens runs in a Wing-T.
Gov. Gruesome was born with a silver spoon in his posterior, dorsal, orifice who believes he is a kings patrician who can demand that you do everything he pronounces.
He possessed none of the patrician airs of FDR and none of his sly, duplicitous ways of managing the people around him.
On the surface, it seems like the patrician Su-Won is the best choice for Yona, but Su-Won shows in the first episode that he has no noble qualities.
Owens replied at the other end with a crisp strike over the top from McElholm’s quickly taken free, but another Maguire free and super score from out the left flank by defender Packie Dougan handed Patrician a narrow 0-7 to 0-6 interval lead.
The multi-millionaire who’d been born of a patrician Connecticut family put on jeans, leather work gloves, and a flannel shirt, picked up a chainsaw, affected a Texas drawl, and transformed his brand into that of a Reaganesque GOP cowboy.
The Eagles took a lump on the head as they lost 31-21 to the Patrician Academy Saints.
His first name, with its patrician pronunciation (“Sinjun”), is no accident.
Internal political leaders who'd publicly criticised Winnie were sidelined but his patrician's hope that he could have a benign influence on her evaporated.
In the Kenyan town of Iten, more than 7,800 feet above sea level, Irish Patrician Brother Colm O’Connell is working to motivate athletes overwhelmed by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The newest Blades include defenceman Rhett Rhinehart along with forwards Martin Fasko-Rudas, Evan Patrician and Caiden Daley.
Second among the interventionists were members of our patrician class, like Henry Cabot Lodge, Elihu Root, Nicholas Murray Butler, A. Lawrence Lowell and many Anglophile Southern Senators.
Almost 37 years later, speaks in a low, patrician voice via telephone from her atelier in New York.
As intelligence chief, diplomat and president, he brought to his calling a set of values that might be called patrician.
Dunlop, who was 78, stood out as a patrician, even in a sport that attracts such figures, and his formidable qualities were recalled by Angus Gold, the racing manager to Sheikh Hamdan, the owner of Erhaab and Salsabil.
A patrician's privileges included: Inter-regnum (power of state reverted to the fathers), Auspices (a way to look for the will of the gods), and Priesthoods.
Birley, Marcus Aurelius, 29; McLynn, 14. Statue of young Marcus Aurelius from a private collection housed in the San Antonio Museum of Art Lucilla was the daughter of the patrician P. Calvisius Tullus Ruso and the elder Domitia Lucilla.
Bryce 1961, p.25 He was also asked to make Odoacer a patrician, and administrator of Italy in Zeno's name.