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Word of the Day for Wednesday, June 11, 2008patrician \puh-TRISH-un\, noun: 1. A member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome. London possessed the manner of a patrician. He was a man whose stately elegance suggested that he deemed himself above the fray. In Senator Harrison G. Otis's words, King was the "last of the Romans," or those patrician Federalists who hoped to model the American Senate upon the aristocratic body of the Roman Republic and to keep the plebeian House in check. A neutral observer could not have said whether the handsome gentleman with the black satin eye patch over his left eye, and the meticulously trimmed salt-and-pepper goatee, and the jaunty straw hat, and the air of patrician confidence, was betraying now and then a just-perceptible apprehension, or whether, like numerous others, quite naturally in these heightened circumstances, he is merely anticipating the contest to come. I stuck up for patrician values, incarnate, as I imagined, in the professional class I issued from, exemplified by my grandfather. Patrician derives from Latin patricius, from patres, "senators," plural of pater, "father." | |||||||||
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