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Gentrie   Listen
noun
Gentrie, Genterie  n.  Nobility of birth or of character; gentility. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Gentrie" Quotes from Famous Books



... blemish that Paterculus findes in the face of the Gracchi. They had good wits, but used them ill. But a fouler blot then a Jewes letter is it in the foreheads of Caelies and Curio, that he sets, Ingeniose nequam, they were wittily wicked. Pitie it is but evermore wit should be vertuous, vertue gentle, gentrie studious, students gracious. Let follie be dishonest, dishonestie unnoble, ignobilitie scandalous and scandall slanderous. Who then are they that mispend all their leisure, yea take their cheefe pleasure ...
— Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 • Arthur Acheson



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