(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as, plebeian sports; a plebeian throng.
(n.) One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from patrician.
(n.) One of the common people, or lower rank of men.
Example Sentences:
(1) The whole phenomenon could be summed up in the familiar phrase, coined by the Romans used to describe their strategy for placating the plebeians – "bread and circuses".
(2) Just as Demirtaş is the current darling of the western ambassadors, so Erdoğan was a decade ago; the ambassadors took it upon themselves to smooth his plebeian edges and refine his worldview.
(3) In his last Russian novel, The Gift , he devoted 50 pages to belittling and mocking the writer and his circle, but admitted that there “was quite definitively a smack of class arrogance about the attitudes of contemporary well-born writers towards the plebeian Chernyshevsky” and, in private, that “Tolstoy and Turgenev called him the ‘bed-bug stinking gentleman’ … and jeered at him in all kinds of ways”.
(4) Again in Port Harcourt, I saw a convoy with sirens blaring driving down the wrong side of the road to avoid waiting like the rest of us normal, plebeian people.
(5) Perhaps he made his exit via the constituency’s Durham Tees Valley airport, barked through security with his shoes and belt in a grey plastic tray, the fate to which his foreign policy adventures have condemned us plebeian travellers.
(6) In other ways, Wonga is just a soft target, put in the stocks for angry plebeians to throw rotten fruit at.
(7) So it has been with the distinctions of slaves and freemen, nobles and serfs, patricians and plebeians; and so it will be, and in part already is, with the aristocracies of colour, race, and sex."
Unwashed
Definition:
(a.) Not washed or cleansed; filthy; unclean.
Example Sentences:
(1) ROS that had been washed to remove soluble and peripheral proteins incorporated less label than unwashed ROS into phosphatidic acid and phosphatidylinositol.
(2) An epidemiological survey carried out in the Dodoma region of Tanzania found that high rates of trachoma infection in pre-school children were associated with unwashed faces.
(3) Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
(4) Two kidneys (Group 3), deemed unsuitable for transplantation, were perfused for 24 hours with perfusate swished with unwashed sterile gloves.
(5) The "unwashed" BDT usually became negative within 6-9 months of beginning immunotherapy, whereas the IgE-RAST was still clearly positive.
(6) This method may avoid the clinical complications often arising with unwashed grafts.
(7) Certain enzyme treatments (pronase, trypsin and lipase) dramatically increase the waiting period in both washed enzyme-treated cells and in unwashed cells.
(8) Eighteen exposures each lasting six hours were performed while carding unwashed and washed cottons from the three major growing regions of the United States.
(9) After weeks of unwashed silence he's finally dismantled his crisis-beard and returned his woollen catastrophe-hat to the BBC's Break In Case Of Homelessness box.
(10) Comparison of electrophoretic patterns of ribosomal proteins from NH(4)Cl-washed and unwashed ribosomes and F(2), at pH 4.5, shows that F(2) corresponds to the slowest-moving component of the proteins derived from unwashed ribosomes.
(11) Inside the carriage the temperature was stifling, the stench of unwashed bodies and stale urine overwhelming.
(12) Seven of twenty unwashed endoscopes were contaminated by HIV.
(13) Oleate desaturation required oxygen and with unwashed microsomal fractions was stimulated either by NADPH or by the 105 000g supernatant.
(14) A superiority in unwashed specimens was observed in glass versus polystyrene concerning velocity, motility percentage, and HOS testing (p less than 0.01).
(15) This finding, together with the ionic analysis of the unwashed thylakoids and of isolated intact chloroplasts, indicated that the major physiological surface cation is Mg2+ and that K+ is probably the main inorganic cation of the stroma.
(16) This oxidation accounts for differences noted in levels of N-hydroxyphentermine formed from phentermine in washed and unwashed microsome preparations.
(17) The possibility of formalization of structure of a neuronal ensemble (the washed out multitude of neurons) was shown, examples of determining the function of a neuron belonging to a neuronal ensemble were presented, the questions of transition from washed out multitudes to unwashed those were considered.
(18) There is a difference in surface heterogeneity between sperm which have been washed in buffer or left unwashed, direct from the ejaculate.
(19) Two soluble protein fractions isolated from E. coli were found to be required for efficient expression of the amp gene of pBR322 in an in vitro coupled transcription-translation system consisting of unwashed ribosomes and a polyethylene glycol-treated S30 extract from E. coli.
(20) The concentration in unwashed erythrocytes was at least twofold higher, but the value in washed red cells was not due to leukocyte contamination because it did not decrease further when washed cells were passed through an Imgard column, which would have removed any remaining leukocytes.