Helen, the mother of great Constantine,
Nor yet St. Philip’s daughters, were like thee [Joan of Arc].
Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI. act i. sc. 2 (1589).
Philippe, a parched and haggard wretch, infirm and bent beneath a pile of years, yet shrewd and cunning, greedy of gold, malicious, and looked upon by the common people as an imp of darkness. It was this old villain who told Thancmar that the provost of Bruges was the son of a serf on Thancmar’s estates.—S. Knowles, The Provost of Bruges (1836).
Philippe Egalité, (4 syl.), Louis Philippe, duc d’Orléans (1747-1793).
Philipson (The elder), John, earl of Oxford, an exiled Lancastrian, who goes to France disguised as a merchant.
Arthur Philipson, Sir Arthur de Vere, son of the earl of Oxford, whom he accompanies to the court of King René of Provence.—Sir W. Scott, Anne of Geierstein (time, Edward IV.).
Phil´isides (3 syl.), Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586).
It was the harp of Phil´isides, now dead....
And now in heaven a sign it doth appear,
The Harp well known beside the Northern Bear.
Spenser, The Ruins of Time (1591).
*** Phili[p] Sid[ney], with the Greek termination, makes Phili-sides. Bishop Hall calls the word Phil-is´-ides: “Which sweet Philis´ides fetched of late from France.”
Philistines, a title complacently bestowed, in England and America, by the advance-guard in literature and art, on the Conservatives. The French equivalent is “les bourgeois.”
Demonstrative and offensive whiskers, which are the special inheritance of the British Philistines.—Mrs. Oliphant, Phœbe, Junr., i. 2.