colonate (kolonat)

[ colonet (ko-lōn'), n. [= F. colon = Sp. Pg. It. colono, L. colonus, a husbandman: see colonus, colony.] A peasant; a rustic; a clown. A country colone toil and moil. Burton, Anat. of Mel., To the Reader. colonel (kėr'nel or -nl; old pron. kol-ō-nel'), n . [Orig. coronel , coronell (later also cor on all ) , and then, after F., colonel , colonell, collonell; introduced from Sp. about 1548 (the date of the The Greek, or to speak more specifically, Alexandrian and other colonial grammarians, carefully investigated the intonation of their language. 2. In zoöl., forming colonies; consisting of or social: as, the colonial Anthozoa. Colonial arch i living as colonies; not separate; aggregative; tecture, the style of architecture prevalent in the American colonies just before and at the time of the revolution. It is a development of the cla ical forms of the English Renai ance modified by conditions of local materials and circumstances, and in many examples is characterized by much refinement of proportion and detail. II. n. A member or citizen of a colony, especially of one of the British colonies in the eastern hemisphere. IMG:content-0821.png:[blocks in formation] colonnaded colonialize (ko-lō'ni-al-iz), v. t.; pret. and pp. colonialized, ppr. colonializing. [ The institutions will be rapidly colonialized and American i zed. N. A. Rev. , CXLII. 75. colonially (ko-lō'ni-al-i), adv. 1. In a colony; as a colony: as, to live colonially.-2. In the manner of colonists; as regards the colonies. colonic alt (kō-lon'i-kal), a. [L. colonic us ( Coloni cal services were those which were done by the Ceorls and Socmen to their lords. Spelman , Feuds and Tenures, xxv. colonisation, colonisationist, etc. See coloni zati on, etc. colonist (kol'ō-nist), n. [= D. G. Dan. Sw. kolonist; as colony + -ist.] 1. An inhabitant of a colony; a settler in a colony; a member of a colonizing expedition. Alarmed that so desperate an alternative [submi ion or independence] should be forced upon them, the colonists , still profe ing loyalty to a common sovereign, were driven nearer and nearer to a total denial of the power of the British legislature. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., IV. 5. 2. An animal or a plant found in a country or region in which it is not indigenous. A marine plant from the southern coast of North America, which must be regarded as a colonist in the Azores, although we have no evidence as to the time or mode of its introduction. G. Bentham, Notes on Compos itæ.