Crossword clues for corinthian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corinthian \Co*rin"thi*an\ (-an), a.
Of or relating to Corinth.
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(Arch.) Of or pertaining to the Corinthian order of architecture, invented by the Greeks, but more commonly used by the Romans.
This is the lightest and most ornamental of the three orders used by the Greeks.
--Parker. Debauched in character or practice; impure.
--Milton.Of or pertaining to an amateur sailor or yachtsman; as, a corinthian race (one in which the contesting yachts must be manned by amateurs.)
Corinthian \Co*rin"thi*an\, n.
A native or inhabitant of Corinth.
A gay, licentious person. [Obs.]
A man of fashion given to pleasuring or sport; a fashionable man about town; esp., a man of means who drives his own horse, sails his own yacht, or the like. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s as an architectural order, from Corinth, the ancient Greek city-state. In classical times Corinth was notorious for its luxury and licentiousness among the Greek states (and for not scorning trade and profit); hence Corinthian, noun and adjective, in various slang or colloquial sense in English, especially "a swell, a man about town" (early to mid-19c. but especially in the 1820s).
Wiktionary
n. (alt form Corinthian English) (a sailboat owner who helms his or her own boat in competitive racing)
WordNet
adj. most ornate of the three orders of classical Greek architecture [ant: doric, ionic]
of or relating to or characteristic of Corinth or its inhabitants
n. a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure [syn: playboy, man-about-town]
a resident of Corinth
Wikipedia
- A demonym relating to the port of Corinth in Greece
- Corinthian order, a classical order of ancient Greek and Roman architecture
- Residents or people hailing from the town of Corinth (town), New York
- The League of Corinth, a federation of ancient Greek states
- Several Pauline epistles, books of the New Testament of the Bible:
- First Epistle to the Corinthians
- Second Epistle to the Corinthians
- Third Epistle to the Corinthians (Armenian Orthodox)
- In sport:
- Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, Brazilian professional football club
- Corinthian F.C., a former English amateur football club
- Corinthian-Casuals F.C., English football club formed by Corinthian F.C. and Casuals F.C.
- Corinthian F.C. (Kent), another former English football club, which attempted to emulate the ideals of the Corinthians
- Corinthians USA, a professional football club based in Fontana, California
- Sport Club Corinthians Alagoano, a professional football club in Brazil named after the other Brazilian club
- AtlĂ©tico Clube CorĂntians, a professional football club in Brazil
- Sport Club Corinthians Paranaense, a professional football club in Brazil
- Esporte Clube Corinthians, a professional football club in Brazil
- Esporte Clube Corinthians de Bataguassu, a professional football club in Brazil
- Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, a yacht club located in Oyster Bay, New York.
- Corinthians A.F.C. (Isle of Man), a Manx football club
- Galway Corinthians RFC, an Irish rugby club
- Corinthian Colleges, a post-secondary education company in North America currently under criminal investigation in the US.
- Corinthian (comics), a character in The Sandman comics
- The Corinthian (novel), novel by Georgette Heyer
- The Corinthian (New York), a skyscraper in New York City
- The Corinthian helmet, a style of helmet worn by hoplites in classical Greece
- Corinthian leather, a marketing term used by Chrysler
- Corinthian (horse), American racehorse, a 2007 Breeders' Cup winner
- Corinthian bagatelle, occasionally called Corinthians
- Corinthian - the nautical term for an amateur yachter
The Corinthian is a fictional character in Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman. He can first be seen in The Sandman #10 (October 1989), which is part of the second story arc, The Doll's House. The Corinthian is a nightmare created by Dream, who destroys him in the same collection for going rogue and failing to fulfill his original design. Dream later recreates him with "some changes", though the exact nature of these changes is not explicit. His most notable physical feature is his lack of eyes: in their place, two rows of small, jagged teeth line each eye socket, which he often covers with sunglasses. He can speak, eat, see, and even respire through these mouths.
Corinthian (foaled March 7, 2003 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse.
He was purchased at the Fasig-Tipton 2004 Saratoga yearling sale for $385,000 by the Centennial Farms racing partnership led by Donald V. Little Sr. of Ipswich, Massachusetts.
Trained by Jimmy Jerkens, Corinthian is best known for winning the 2007 Grade I Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile at Monmouth Park and the 2007 Metropolitan Handicap(Grade I) at Belmont Park. Following that win, he was retired to stud duty at Gainesway Farm, near Lexington, Kentucky. On November 19, 2013, it was announced that Corinthian would be moved to Pin Oak Lane Farm in New Freedom, Pennsylvania and continue standing at stud there.
Usage examples of "corinthian".
Gargoyles and cherubin were carved in stately rows around its cornice, while Corinthian columns held the four porticos at the cardinal compass points.
Accordingly he sought an audience of Gallio, the matter being obviously for the representative of the Imperial government, rather than for the head of the Corinthian municipality.
The nakedness gave an impression of unity entirely misleading, Calchas thought, seeing how carefully the men were kept within their tribes, Molossians from the mountains of Epirus, Aetolians from the northern shores of the Corinthian Gulf, the seventy from Arcadia under their chief Inachus, speaking a language that did not sound like Greek at all.
By comparing the present remains with the precepts of Vitruvius, the several parts of the building, the baths, bed-chamber, the atrium, the basilica, and the Cyzicene, Corinthian, and Egyptian halls have been described with some degree of precision, or at least of probability.
Flat, rectagonal pillars of a rose-tinted, variegated marble, rose from the floor almost flush with the walls, finishing off at the top with gilded capitals of a Corinthian design, which supported the ceiling.
I have two clubs: The Creek, a country club, which is where we were having dinner with the Remsens, and The Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, whose first commodore was William K.
Without pausing to except or qualify, or to be thoroughly informed and just, they included the ancient stern generations and their own degraded contemporaries, the vile rites of the Corinthian Aphrodite and the solemn service of Demeter, the furious revels of the Bacchanalians and the harmonious mental worship of Apollo, all in one indiscriminate charge of insane beastliness and idolatry.
The Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club is a mile or so down the road from here, and in the summer the nautical gentry will visit places like The Rusty Hawsehole after a day of sailing.
The Creek for a while, partly because of my conversation with Lester, but mostly because I prefer to spend July at The Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club.
The Seawanhaka Corinthian late Monday afternoon, sunburned and exhausted.
I sat there that this restaurant could have been a hundred years old, older than The Creek, older than The Seawanhaka Corinthian.
So Boy Jim went down to the George, at Crawley, under the charge of Jim Belcher and Champion Harrison, to train for his great fight with Crab Wilson, of Gloucester, whilst every club and bar parlour of London rang with the account of how he had appeared at a supper of Corinthians, and beaten the formidable Joe Berks in four rounds.
I myself drew the plan of its Corinthian colonnades and the corresponding alignment of palm trees spaced regularly along the river banks.
But after faith in Santa Claus had turned out to be faith in the gasman, an attempt was made, in disregard of the order set forth in Corinthians, to do it with love: I love you, they said, oh, I love you.
It was at the end of my first week in London that my uncle gave a supper to the fancy, as was usual for gentlemen of that time if they wished to figure before the public as Corinthians and patrons of sport.