Examples of 'patrician' in a sentence
Meaning of "patrician"
patrician (adjective) - relating to or characteristic of a person of noble or high rank
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- 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.
- Of or pertaining to the Roman patres ("fathers") or senators, or patricians.
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It included both patrician and plebeian branches.
Just as well as a slave might love a patrician.
He has a decidedly patrician and distinguished appearance.
Gregory conferred on him the title of patrician.
A handful of patrician s control all the wealth.
The infinite wisdom of a spoiled patrician brat.
Only one patrician came to testify on his behalf.
The gens may originally have been patrician.
A patron is usually a patrician but not always cf.
She must be the widow of some patrician.
They spoke with these patrician languid accents.
Her patrician status could no longer save her.
Caesar has put an end to patrician tyranny.
Anna has patrician features like her mother.
He remains as the model painter of patrician elegance.
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He often played patrician young men in silent films.
Ten of them were members of the patrician class.
I like the patrician house fine.
Patrician asafoetida was the scepticism.
He is a condescending patrician who is born to rule.
Only patrician families could have tombs here.
Fagel was born into a distinguished patrician family.
Grand patrician pima cotton sheets.
The pope granted him the title patrician.
The old patrician is a coward.
Her father was of a distinguished and ancient patrician family.
The second patrician is cynical.
Each plebeian family was dependent on a particular patrician family.
The old patrician is impotent.
His family was of the patrician rank.
The other patrician families were called the gentes minores.
She was from an old patrician family.
Your patrician lover will come to the same end.
These were the original patrician families.
Patrician and plebeian gentes.
He came from a distinguished patrician family.
But his patrician manner left him politically vulnerable.
Placidia the wife of the patrician.
You were born a patrician or a plebeian and that was your fate.
Originally the dictator was of course a patrician.
Did you notice how those patrician eyebrows of his arched.
One of the disadvantages of being a patrician.
He was the only member of the patrician family to become consul.
This was originally a house of a patrician.
Silentiarius the patrician to death.
The patrician families.
The residences of the patrician families.
Third patrician an actor.
Caesar was born into a patrician family.
Access to the patrician order is by birth or adoption into a patrician family.
