Corinthian
[kə'rinθiən]
Definition
(noun.) a resident of Corinth.
(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of Corinth or its inhabitants .
(adj.) or pertaining to the Corinthian style of architecture .
Edited by Jeremy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or relating to Corinth.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Corinthian order of architecture, invented by the Greeks, but more commonly used by the Romans.
(a.) Debauched in character or practice; impure.
(a.) Of or pertaining to an amateur sailor or yachtsman; as, a corinthian race (one in which the contesting yachts must be manned by amateurs.)
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Corinth.
(n.) A gay, licentious person.
Checker: Shelia
Definition
adj. pertaining to Corinth a city of Greece: pertaining to an ornate order of Greek architecture (M. Arnold) to an over-brilliant literary style: profligate.—n. a profligate: a man of fashion a 'swell.'—n. Cor′inth (obs.) a brothel from the notorious licentiousness of Corinth.—v.i. Corinth′ianise to be licentious.—Corinthian brass bronze an alloy made in Corinth much valued in ancient times: assurance or effrontery.
Checked by Kenneth
Examples
- The six columns are their bases, Corinthian capitals and entablature--and six more shapely columns do not exist. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The meanest streets are strewed with truncated columns, broken capitals--Corinthian and Ionic, and sparkling fragments of granite or porphyry. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Nor, if a man is to be in condition, would you allow him to have a Corinthian girl as his fair friend? Plato. The Republic.
- BREADALBY Breadalby was a Georgian house with Corinthian pillars, standing among the softer, greener hills of Derbyshire, not far from Cromford. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Now for the Trenors, you remember, he chose the Corinthian: exuberant, but based on the best precedent. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- At the same time he wrote to the Corinthians, insisting that they should send Thessalus to him in chains. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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