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medicean
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Medicean \Med`i*ce"an\, prop. a. Of or relating to the Medici, a noted Italian family; as, the Medicean Venus.
Medicean planets (Astron.), a name given by Galileo to the satellites of Jupiter.
Wikipedia
Medicean (foaled 26 February 1997) is a retired British Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire, best known for his performances as a four-year-old in 2001, when he recorded three consecutive wins in important British races. Unraced as a two-year-old, Medicean ran eight times in 2000, winning the Celebration Mile and finishing third in both the St. James's Palace Stakes and the Sussex Stakes. In the early part of the following year, the colt showed his best form, winning the Lockinge Stakes, Queen Anne Stakes and Eclipse Stakes. He was retired to stud at the end of the year and has had considerable success as a sire of winners.
Usage examples of "medicean".
Galileo deflected their slurs with humor: Learning of the death of one such opponent in December 1610, he wished aloud that the professor, having ignored the Medicean stars during his time on Earth, might now encounter them en route to Heaven.
Jupiter of each of the four Medicean planets, which I managed in April of the past year, 1611, while I was at Rome.
The motions of the Medicean stars demonstrated that satellites could orbit bodies other than the Earth.
I began to tell about an observation of the Medicean planets I had made just the night before.
Galileo now returned to predicting the positions of the Medicean satellites and to penning responses to various published attacks against his own published works.
Fitz was looking out at the deserted Medicean Stadium from its massive, minimalist stage.
There was a variant of the Medicean Codex in England, which nobody had seen since Gaisford, and after a good deal of trouble I found that it was in the library of a man called Dubellay.
As evidence of Medicean forethought he had come armed with all necessary holy dispensations, civil permits, writs, blessings and the like, enough spiritual and bureaucratic armament to have wed two Barbary apes on short notice had such a union appeared desirable.
The effigy no longer sleeps, but opens its eyes and sits up -- ideally noble, as on the Medicean tombs, or soberly a portrait, like any one of those admirable busts in their round niches between the pilasters of a classical design.
The advent of the French, heralded by the passionate eloquence of Savonarola, was also hailed by Florence and its dependencies, in their impatience of the Medicean rule, now that it had dropped from the hands of the illustrious Lorenzo into those of his less competent son.
The later Renaissance, which achieved by monuments of solid work what dilettantism had begun and interrupted in the Medicean age, was due to them and to the refuge they provided for persecuted scholars.
To him, if to few others, it seemed tragic that, in the wonderful development of industrial Britain, art, which had spoken so eloquently to citizens of Periclean Athens and to Florence in the Medicean age, should remain without expression or sign of life.
No longer the little prettinesses of the Medicean Venus flirt by you in the nervous silks that flutter along these walks, but something nobly womanly, of a solid past, slow and stately, moves solemnly, by.
For this end Stephen was sent at an early age to Europe, and not only enjoyed the instructions of Fuzeli and Bartolozzi, but spent a considerable period in Italy, in studying the Augustan and Medicean monuments.
His brother Lorenzo, his son Pietro, and Lorenzo the Magnificent in the next generation, all laboured in their turn to adorn the Medicean collection.