patriciate

Example Sentences

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Lady Barb verily appeared to have for the representative of the American patriciate a mysterious fascination. 

From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by James, Henry

Among the districts of Italy some have and some have not a patriciate.

From Rome by Malleson, Hope

Upon the breaking down of the aristocracy of birth, the patriciate, the senate was made accessible to the plebeians who had filled the curule magistracies and were possessed of 800,000 sesterces.

From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Stephenson, Andrew

Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the Romans in the year eight hundred; and so the patriciate terminated.

From Notes on the Apocalypse by Steele, David

It was composed in the prison to which Theodoric had consigned the wisest of the 15old Roman patriciate; and it is commonly regarded as closing the canon of Roman literature.

From Anglo-Saxon Literature by Earle, John