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ST. GEORGE
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)
Synonyms:
George; Saint George; St. George
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
martyr (one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion)
patron saint (a saint who is considered to be a defender of some group or nation)
Context examples:
“By St. George!” cried Ford, “we are cut off from Sir Nigel.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal of the Theological College of St. George’s, was much addicted to opium.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We set out the 5th day of August, 1706, and arrived at Fort St. George the 11th of April, 1707.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
On my saying that I did not understand, she went on: It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that to-night, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I should like the scheme, and we would make a little circuit, and shew you Everingham in our way, and perhaps you would not mind passing through London, and seeing the inside of St. George's, Hanover Square.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
You talked of expected horrors in London—and instead of instantly conceiving, as any rational creature would have done, that such words could relate only to a circulating library, she immediately pictured to herself a mob of three thousand men assembling in St. George's Fields, the Bank attacked, the Tower threatened, the streets of London flowing with blood, a detachment of the Twelfth Light Dragoons (the hopes of the nation) called up from Northampton to quell the insurgents, and the gallant Captain Frederick Tilney, in the moment of charging at the head of his troop, knocked off his horse by a brickbat from an upper window.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Barclay was, it appears, a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and had interested herself very much in the establishment of the Guild of St. George, which was formed in connection with the Watt Street Chapel for the purpose of supplying the poor with cast-off clothing.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We went forth in little ships and came back in great galleys—for of fifty tall ships of Spain, over two score flew the Cross of St. George ere the sun had set.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
‘The ceremony, which was performed at St. George’s, Hanover Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia Whittington.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“By St. George! our life is short, and we should be merry while we may. May I never see Chester Bridge again, if she is not a right winsome lass!”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
