ormondian
Collocations
4ADJ.
captive, golden
VERB + ORMONDIAN
field
ORMONDIAN + NOUN
shield
PREP.
upon
Definitions
adj
In support of or pertaining to Thomas Butler, especially as regards the faction that supported him in the Desmond Rebellions.
The Ormondian golden age!
So wounded Desmond borne from field Captive upon Ormondian shield, Hearing– " Where now is Desmond ? " – shrilled, " Where but in proper place of fear, Still on the necks of Butlers, here.”
noun
A supporter of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond.
I do not find how his excellency can be justly censured for favouring none but high-church, high-flyers, termagants, laudists, sacheverellians, tip-top-gallon-men, jaocobites, tantivys, anti-hanoverians, friends to popery and the pretender and to arbitrary power, disobligers of England, breakers of DEPENDENCY, inflamers of quarrels between the two nations, public incendiaries, enemies to the king and kingdoms, haters of TRUE protestants, laurel-men, annists, complainers of the nation's poverty, ormondians, iconoclasts, anti-glorious-memorists, anti-revolutioners, white-rosalists, tenth-a-junians, and the like; when, by a fair state of the account, the balance, I conceive, seems to lie on the other side.
As the Ormondians conveyed him from the field, stretched on a bier, his supporters exclaimed, with a natural triumph, " Where is now the great lord of Desmond!"
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6The Ormondian golden age!
WiktionarySo wounded Desmond borne from field Captive upon Ormondian shield, Hearing– " Where now is Desmond ? " – shrilled, " Where but in proper place of fear, Still on the necks of Butlers, here.”
WiktionaryWhile O'Neill, the defender of Arras and the hero of Benburb, was ordered off to employ his arms in Connaught lest his presence should interfere with the designs of the new council, which had now grow
WiktionaryI do not find how his excellency can be justly censured for favouring none but high-church, high-flyers, termagants, laudists, sacheverellians, tip-top-gallon-men, jaocobites, tantivys, anti-hanoveria
WiktionaryAs the Ormondians conveyed him from the field, stretched on a bier, his supporters exclaimed, with a natural triumph, " Where is now the great lord of Desmond!"
WiktionaryDesmond's road to Youghal was also open, but he preferred the middle course of returning to Lismore, where his auxiliaries were, with whose help he might hope clearly to outnumber the Ormondians, who
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