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Roman

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of people of Rome. "His Roman bearing in adversity" , "A Roman nose"

Of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome). Synonym: Romanic. "The old Roman wall"

Characteristic of the modern type that most directly represents the type used in ancient Roman inscriptions.

Of or relating to or supporting Romanism. Synonyms: papist, papistic, papistical, popish, R.C., Roman Catholic, Romanist, romish.

noun

A resident of modern Rome.

An inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire.

A typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions. Synonyms: roman letters, roman print, roman type.

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... dwell—talked of the divinations of the Chaldeans, how they studied the positions of the stars and the entrails of dead animals before going to war, talked of the horrible fetiches of the Africans, the tricks and speculations of the priests of Greek and Roman temples, finally telling me the story of the ambitious eel-seller who anchored the dead horse in the stream in order to have plenty of eels every morning for market. I revolted. I ...

— Twelve Men • Theodore Dreiser

... without a plausible pretence for styling his villa a castle, for, in its immediate vicinity, and within his own enclosed domain, were the manifest traces, on the brow of the hill, of a Roman station, or castellum, which was still called the "Castle" by the country people. The primitive mounds and trenches, merely overgrown with greensward, with a few patches of juniper and box on the vallum, and a solitary ancient beech surmounting ...

— Crotchet Castle • Thomas Love Peacock

... expanded. So I have seen a dull-eyed, listless lad change in an instant into briskness and life when given a task of which he felt himself master. She looked down at Agatha with an expression which I resented from the bottom of my soul—the expression with which a Roman empress might have looked at her kneeling slave. Then with a quick, commanding gesture she tossed up her arms and swept them slowly down in front ...

— The Parasite • Arthur Conan Doyle

... devoted to the consideration of preliminary matters, such as Method, or the principles which should guide the student of Theology, and the different theories as to the source and standard of our knowledge of divine things, Rationalism, Mysticism, the Roman Catholic doctrine of the Rule of Faith, and the Protestant doctrine on ...

— What is Darwinism? • Charles Hodge

... nor like some just-formed maid, With heart as yet unswoln by bliss or woe;— But of such age be seen As Egypt's glowing queen, When her brave Roman learned to love her so That death and loss of fame, were, ...

— Zophiel - A Poem • Maria Gowen Brooks

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