(a.) Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature.
(n.) One who lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) My older sister had the improving Young Elizabethan magazine, with earnest articles on Edmund Hillary climbing Mount Everest.
(2) Among the buyers was England striker Michael Owen, who spent £1.6m on the Elizabethan Grade II-listed Lower Soughton Hall in North Wales.
(3) The chapter on the Tudors and the Stuarts requires readers understand "how and why religion changed during this period; the importance of poetry and drama in the Elizabethan period; the involvement of Britain in Ireland; the development of parliament and the only period in history when England was a republic; why there was a restoration of the monarchy; how the Glorious Revolution happened."
(4) Fleas were placed on cats that were declawed, fitted with Elizabethan collars and housed in specially designed metabolic cages.
(5) Beams, exposed brick, lots of dark wood – everything you might expect in an Elizabethan inn – plus some things you wouldn't.
(6) Two quotations from Elizabethan playwrights are relevant to the theme of this paper: 'Beware you do not conjure up a spirit you cannot lay' Ben Johnson, The New Inn (Act III, Scene ii) 'Farewell the tranquil mind: farewell content.'
(7) In 1968, Roger Deakin bought the ruined remains of an Elizabethan house, and 12 acres of surrounding meadow, on the edge of Mellis Common in Suffolk.
(8) The first, in the grounds of one of Britain's greatest Elizabethan mansions, gave him a sense of history and the power of wealth.
(9) From the ex-bishop to the chief executive of Mumsnet, from the TaxPayers' Alliance to Amnesty International, from the joint select committee on human rights, through the … well, all the relevant committees, they rose as one, channelling the outrage of Joan of Arc through the baffled derision of (Elizabethan era) Blackadder .
(10) But then, few would have once thought giant Elizabethan ballgowns and hot-pink hair were what a female hip-hop artist should wear, yet I have seen Nicki Minaj doing precisely that, so fashion codes are a flexible affair in the crazy hazy world of hip-hop.
(11) It might be tricky to limit your time at this Elizabethan mansion, with its parkland sculpture trails, wonderful herbaceous borders and a prize-winning produce garden.
(12) The patron saint of the British Industrial Revolution was Francis Bacon, the great Elizabethan philosopher and crusading apostle for science.
(13) A history play about history yet to be made, Bartlett’s script imagines a post-Elizabethan world in which the accession of Prince Charles thrusts the UK into social and political chaos.
(14) Those of us who are nearly her age can remember the Queen’s ascension to the throne and the cheerful delight with which people talked of the “New Elizabethan age”.
(15) Elizabethan tapestry map to be displayed at University of Oxford's Bodleian library Read more The musical angel was once part of a cope – a ceremonial priestly cloak – which became an altar cloth for the small parish church of Steeple Aston in Oxfordshire.
(16) It’s an architectural mix-up of Elizabethan, Jacobean and William & Mary.
(17) We may also be out of the EU and, if so, Scotland will be gone too, the Queen’s realm diminished physically, morally, socially and culturally from those Young Elizabethan ideals.
(18) His Elizabethan comedy Sweet William (2005) for Rutter was a tremendous knees-up set in the Boar's Head, following "wee Willy Shaggers of Stratford town".
(19) Elizabethan English changed and became immensely rich by borrowing from other languages and by inventing words continuously.
(20) The former Elizabethan history doctoral student speaks about Europe with an enthusiasm rarely heard on the Tory benches.
Tudor
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a royal line of England, descended from Owen Tudor of Wales, who married the widowed queen of Henry V. The first reigning Tudor was Henry VII.; the last, Elizabeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her dark new short-story collection offers her a break from the Tudors.
(2) We would love to get married, so we were really disappointed,” Tudor says.
(3) Thoroughbred horses have been bred exclusively for racing in England since Tudor times and thoroughbred horse racing is now practised in over 40 countries and involves more than half-a-million horses worldwide.
(4) The tudor (tud) locus of Drosophila melanogaster is required during oogenesis for the formation of primordial germ cells and for normal abdominal segmentation.
(5) We went through an enormous sense of grief and loss, we had plans for our retirement and for travel which we had to reassess,” Tudor says.
(6) Tudor propagandists in the 16th century portrayed him in a negative light.
(7) But knowing that you have to stick to the facts of what the Celts wore, or how the Tudors treated illness, concentrates the mind.
(8) I know it is him – and I can tell you who did the wicked deed, it was Henry Tudor, without a shadow of a doubt, that's who killed him."
(9) As well as Emmanuel, there's Barry Sloane, who's swapped being Chester's resident psycho Niall (you remember: blew up a church to kill his own sister) to play the mysterious Aiden in Revenge; and Max Brown, who's starred in everything from Grange Hill to The Tudors, is now playing a womanising doctor in the CW Network's Beauty And The Beast.
(10) Theresa May 'acting like Tudor monarch' by denying MPs a Brexit vote Read more However, a Treasury source was keen to play down the idea of a split.
(12) Females homozygous for any one of the maternal-effect mutations, tudor, oskar, staufen, vasa, or valois give rise to embryos that lack localized polar granules, fail to form the germ cell lineage and have abdominal segment deletions.
(13) Mayhew and Tudor have renovated their home to make it easier for them to manage; they’ve travelled to China, Botswana and Vietnam, knowing such trips will become increasingly less likely as the illness progresses; and have become involved with Alzheimer’s Australia and younger onset dementia support groups.
(14) Sampson was “amazed by the apparent casualness” of the rickety offices in Tudor Street, which “seemed more like a family charity or an eccentric college than a commercial newspaper”.
(15) Like its predecessors (The Tudors, Spartacus, Camelot etc) the 10-part potboiler is awash with wrecking ball exposition, window-rattling anachronisms and scenes in which heritage hardbodies have shouting backwards sex next to stupefied livestock.
(16) 9 Once through the gate follow Queens Road and take the third right into Tudor Road.
(17) Gérard Araud of France is known for throwing parties at his grand neo-Tudor residence, including the Vanity Fair bash that follows the White House correspondents’ dinner every year.
(18) Meanwhile, the bones that have just been confirmed as those of Richard III – the last Plantagenet king, the last English monarch to die on a battlefield, whose death ushered in the upstart Tudors – lay quietly in a calm room on the second floor of the Leicester University library, unknown to many of the students bustling in and out of the building.
(19) What neither the history nor the literature of the Tudor period can reveal to us, though, is the full depth and nature of Baelish's schemings – nor, because there are still two books of the series to be written, what his fate will be.
(20) The logic of saying the prime minister can trigger article 50 without first setting out to parliament the terms and basis upon which her government seeks to negotiate, indeed without even indicating the red lines she will seek to protect, would be to diminish parliament and assume the arrogant powers of a Tudor monarch,” he said.