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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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"Roman" Quotes from Famous Books

... missionaries employed by the Roman Catholic Church to convert the Indians, did everything in their power to counteract the profligacy caused and propagated by these men in the heart of the wilderness. The Catholic chapel might often be seen planted beside the trading house, and its spire surmounted by a cross, ...

— Astoria - Or, Anecdotes Of An Enterprise Beyond The Rocky Mountains • Washington Irving

... in which this truth is strikingly illustrated. It was a severe task for the daughters of Milton to read to their blind parent, languages sealed to their own understanding; but was it not the discharge of a simple duty? We are struck with the Roman instance of filial piety, in which the life-blood was shed by tender woman to save a father. Yet when should one meet a voluntary death, if not for ...

— The Young Maiden • A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

... two by two, until they reach the chancel, where they divide on the right and on the left, allowing the bridesmaids to pass before them, standing in a semicircle around the altar rails. If it is a Roman Catholic wedding they genuflect as they reach the chancel. They file down the aisle in the same order, heading the bridal procession. At the carriage way they assist the bridesmaids in their carriages, and by previous arrangement they are allotted ...

— The Complete Bachelor - Manners for Men • Walter Germain

... church." These dead have been dug out regardless of their position relative to the walls of the building, and their remains have been scattered over the surface, to become the prey of relic-hunters. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of New Mexico has finally stopped such abuses by asserting his title of ownership; but it was far too late. It cannot be denied, besides, that his concession to Kozlowski to use some of the timber for his own purposes ...

— Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos • Adolphus Bandelier

... to the congenial admiration of the devourers of our circulating libraries, and form our judgment of the respective methods of conducting a story of the French and Germans, from a comparison of the heroes of each tongue. Let us judge of Greek and Roman war from the Phalanx and the Legion, and not from the suttlers of the two camps. A great excellence in a German novelist is the prodigious faith he seems to have in his own story; he relates incidents as if he knew them of his own knowledge; and the wilder and more incredible they are, ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 • Various

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