corinthian

Of or relating to Corinth.

Of the Corinthian order.

The silver waters of the spring had long since disappeared, but there still were left a few of the Corinthian pillars, some stretched on the ground and overgrown with creeping-plants, while two or three yet remained erect, and showed how graceful the whole must have been.

The examples of the concave family in the Byzantine times are found principally either in large capitals founded on the Greek Corinthian, used chiefly for the nave pillars of churches, or in the small lateral shafts of the palaces.

Elaborate, ornate.

Debauched in character or practice; impure.

all her young Corinthian laity

Being a sporting event (originally in horse racing and yachting) restricted to gentleman amateurs.

Corinthian Stakes of 10 Guineas ... To be rode by Gentlemen.

It was a condition of the race, that the horses should be ridden by gentlemen ... [I]t was submitted, that if none were to be reputed in the rank of gentlemen, whose wives had not been visited by Lady Clanricarde, the notion of a Corinthian Race might as well be given up at once, within twenty miles all round Portumna castle. It would amount, in fact, to a disgentilizing of two or three counties.

An inhabitant or a resident of Corinth, and its suburbs.

An inhabitant, a resident of; a thing that originates from Corinthia

An accomplished amateur athlete.

A sailboat owner who helms his or her own boat in competitive racing.

A worldly, fashionable person, accepted in society though possibly dissolute.

Alternative form of Corinthian (a sailboat owner who helms his or her own boat in competitive racing)