metropolisses

English

Noun

metropolisses

1. (obsolete) plural of metropolis
   • 1655, S. W., Schism Dis-arm’d of the Defensive Weapons, Lent It by Doctor Hammond, and the Bishop of Derry, Paris: M. Blageart, page 144:

     Cities honored by Letters Patents from the Kings or Emperors, with the name and dignities of Metropoliſſes;

   • 1687, J. P., The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: And His Trusty Squire Sancho Pancha. Now Made English According to the Humour of Our Modern Language. And Adorned with Several Copper Plates., London: Tho. Hodgkin, page 279:

     Which done, another Damſel comes and caſts about his Shoulders a magnificent embroider’d Mantle, worth the Metropoliſſes of three great Kingdoms.

   • 1693, Lawrence Eachard, The Gazetteer’s: or, Newsman’s Interpreter: Being a Geographical Index of All the Considerable Cities, Patriarchships, Bishopricks, Universities, Dukedoms, Earldoms, and Such Like; Imperial and Hance Towns, Ports, Forts, Castles, &c. in Europe, the second edition, London: Tho. Salusbury:

     All the Metropoliſſes of Provinces (beſides ſeveral others of equal Deſerts) are moſtly reckoned of the ſecond Rank, though poſſibly they do not always deſerve to be called ſo.

   • 1792, [Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de] Volney, The Ruins: or, A Survey of the Revolutions of Empires, London: J. Johnson, page 59:

     It was in this manner that the riches of India and Europe, accumulated upon the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates, gave ſucceſſive exiſtence to the ſplendor of a thouſand metropoliſſes.