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Word Meanings - PATRICIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the Roman patres or senators, or patricians. 2. Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian. Born in the patrician file of society. Sir W. Scott. His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood.

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Of or pertaining to the Roman patres or senators, or patricians. 2. Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian. Born in the patrician file of society. Sir W. Scott. His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood. Addison.

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    1. Plebeianism. 2. Plebeians, collectively.
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    One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
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