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Dorian  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion.
2.
(Mus.) Same as Doric, 3. "Dorian mood."
Dorian mode (Mus.), the first of the authentic church modes or tones, from D to D, resembling our D minor scale, but with the B natural.






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"Dorian" Quotes from Famous Books



... Dorian Trent was going to town to buy himself a pair of shoes. He had some other errands to perform for himself and his mother, but the reason for his going to town was the imperative need of shoes. It was Friday afternoon. The coming Sunday he must appear decently shod, so his mother ...
— Dorian • Nephi Anderson

... reputed ancestor of the whole Hellenic race. From the daughters of Deucalion sprang Magnes and Macedon, ancestors of the Magnesians and Macedonians, who are thus represented as cousins to the true Hellenic stock. Hellen had three sons, Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus, parents of the Dorian, Ionic and Aeolian races, and the offspring of these was then detailed. In one instance a considerable and characteristic section can be traced from extant fragments and notices: Salmoneus, son of Aeolus, had a daughter Tyro ...
— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod

... the Lion-friend. Former tradition, in the story of Samson,—of the disobedient prophet,—of David's first inspired victory, and finally of the miracle wrought in the defence of the most favoured and most faithful of the greater Prophets, runs always parallel in symbolism with the Dorian fable: but the legend of St. Jerome takes up the prophecy of the Millennium, and foretells, with the Cumaean Sibyl, and with Isaiah, a day when the Fear of Man shall be laid in benediction, not enmity, on inferior beings,—when they shall not hurt ...
— Our Fathers Have Told Us - Part I. The Bible of Amiens • John Ruskin

... springs a plant that knoweth not The Asian mead, nor that great Dorian isle, Unsown, untilled, within our garden plot It dwells, the grey-leaved olive; ne'er shall guile Nor force of foemen root it from the spot: Zeus and ...
— Rhymes a la Mode • Andrew Lang

... parent. For Miletus was a colony of the Athenians, and had been established there among the other Ionian states by Neleus, the son of that Codrus who is said to have devoted himself for his country in the Dorian war. ...
— The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus • Ammianus Marcellinus

... custom, derived from the laws of Lykurgos, to let the hair of the boy grow as soon as he reached the age of the ephebos, while up to that time it was cut short. This custom prevailed among the Spartans up to their being overpowered by the Achaic federation. Altogether the Dorian character did not admit of much attention being paid to the arrangement of the hair. Only on solemn occasions, for instance on the eve of the battle of Thermopylae, the Spartans arranged their ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy

... de Ville is invaded; the courts, the saloons, the galleries, all are filled. Each one offers his advice, but certain groups insist positively on the resignation of the Government. Lists of names are passed from hand to hand; among the names are those of Dorian (president), Schoelcher, ...
— Paris under the Commune • John Leighton



Words linked to "Dorian" :   citizenry, Hellene, people, Dorian order, Greek



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