Reflect, I pray, that by my accepting it, the genius of the Patriciate is exalted, since none of my fellow-countrymen will hold cheaply that rank in you which he sees honoured in me.
By raising Tulum to the Patriciate we have provided for the military strength of the State.
The great distinction of the Patriciate is that it is a rank held for life, like that of the priesthood, from which it sprang.
He knew better than anyone could tell him that the man whom he had called a traitor, whom he had twice tried basely to kill, was the one man in the entire patriciate of Rome who would be true to him.
The flower of the Roman patriciate was wallowing in this monstrous treachery.
The patriciate of Rome had combined with the people to place its destinies in Dea Flavia's hands.
We are at one in this: the praetorian guard will follow my dictates, the patriciate of Rome will bow the knee to thee.
I was the crowd of poor, of helpless slaves, and I was the whole of the patriciate of Rome.
Her name had been bandied about by traitors, her person been bought and sold as the price of the blackest sacrilege that had ever disgraced the patriciate of Rome.
Under such circumstances the only wonder is that the Roman patriciate did not disappear much more rapidly than it actually did.
By procuring the transference of the patriciate from the Roman people to himself Henry assured his influence over the appointment of the popes, and accordingly also nominated the successors of Clement II.
Had it been willing to admit the wealthy and respectable plebeians to full equality of rights--possibly by connecting the acquisition of the patriciate with admission into the senate--both might long have governed and speculated with impunity.
But the body which acquired these rights could not possibly be the community as it had been hitherto constituted--the patriciate which had practically become an order of nobility.
As a righteous retribution for its perverse and stubborn resistance, the patriciate had seen its former privileges converted into so many disabilities.
Then admission to the patriciate was not in law foreclosed; now the highest object of plebeian ambition was to be admitted into the dumb appendage of the senate.
The Aylwin family, as Madame Galimberti has hinted, belonged to the onlypatriciate which either Landor or Disraeli recognized: the old landed untitled gentry.
Surely, then, he who points out the vices of the law to the people cannot be said to do evil, unless the law of the land is to be made by a narrow patriciate sitting, like the Areopagus of ancient Athens, with closed doors.
And just as pope Adrian had confirmed these things by a charter, so also they, by a charter, gave, confirmed, and put in the power of Henry and his successors the patriciate and the other rights as stated above.
Chapter XI The Government and the Governed Formation of New Parties The fall of the patriciate by no means divested the Roman commonwealth of its aristocratic character.
Germs of the Nobility in the Patriciate The Roman nobility attached itself, in form, to earlier institutions belonging to the times of the patriciate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patriciate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
