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Medicean  adj.  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.






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"Medicean" Quotes from Famous Books



... doubt is triumphantly resolved by a reference to Assemani's engraved representation, on xxii Copper Plates, of the X Eusebian Tables from a superb Syriac Codex (A.D. 586) in the Medicean Library.(564) The student who inquires for Assemani's work will find that the numbers in the last line of each of the X Tables is ...
— The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark • John Burgon

... of popularity even at Rome. The Medicean popes refused all official employment to one who had been the brain of a hostile government; but they encouraged him to write, and were not offended by the things he wrote for them. Leo's own dealings with the tyrant of Perugia were cited by jurists as a suggestive model for men who have ...
— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

... shaped than I ever yet beheld—an exquisite hand, slender and tapering, not one of those short fleshy hands with dimpled fingers, which it is now the fashion to admire, but for which no precedent is to be found in the Medicean goddess or in any other standard of beauty. A magnificent bust, an arm like alabaster, a profusion of dark flowing hair, grace in every movement. But—now comes the wonder, my friend—instead of a face corresponding in beauty with this perfect ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 • Various



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