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Definition of Patricians

Patrician
Patrician Pa*tri"cian, n. [L. patricius: cf. F. patricien.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) Originally, 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 nobility. 2. A person of high birth; a nobleman. 3. One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore. [R.] --Colridge.

Meaning of Patricians from wikipedia

- Rome revolved around the distinction between the patricians and the plebeians. The status of patricians gave them more political power than the plebeians...
- Youngstown Patricians, a former semi-professional football team based in Youngstown, Ohio, USA A member of the Argentine Regiment of Patricians The Patrician, an...
- government led by two consuls, shared between patricians and plebeians" over the religious objections of patricians, requiring at least one of the consuls to...
- case, only male patricians could hold, or parti****te in elections for, most political offices. Often, as in Venice, non-patricians had almost no political...
- and gray [the Patricians' colors] need fear no professional football team." The news report proved prophetic. That season, the Patricians won eight games...
- tradition and pressured by the patricians, they co-opted five colleagues, two of whom were patricians. Concerns that the patricians would attempt to influence...
- composition 1st Battalion, Patricians Legion 1st-8th Companies 2nd Battalion, Patricians Legion 1st-7th Companies 3rd Battalion, Patricians Legion 1st-8th Companies...
- were binding of all Roman citizens (that is, both patricians and plebeians) despite the patrician opposition to the requirement that they adhere to the...
- rise to be included in the ranks of the patricians. By the second century BC, the divide between patricians and plebeians had lost most of its distinction...
- patricians. The first plebeian consular tribunes were elected in 400. The reason behind this sudden gain is unknown, but it was limited as patrician tribunes...