1711,[John Hildrop], “The Preface”, inA Treatise of the Three Evils of the Last Times:[…], London: Printed by M. J. for R[obert] Knaplock[…], R. and J. Bonwicke[…], and H. Clements[…],→OCLC,pages lxxiv–lxxv:
This ſhall bring down theJudgment uponRome, preſently after the Appearance ofAntichriſt: and as uponRome, ſo alſo upon all theGentile Chriſtians, who havea Name to live but are dead, being fallen away from theirFirſt Love andFaith, and ſo having made themſelves Veſſels fit for Deſtruction, when this ſore Judgment ſhall go forth.
1847, William Kelly, “Introduction”, inA Grammar of Gregorian, or Plain Chant Music, London: Thomas Richardson and Son,[…],→OCLC,pages11–12:
If we read theEpistles ofSt. Paul, we shall soon discover what efforts the Jewish converts made to bring theGentile converts into the observance of every Jewish custom compatible with christianity:[sic] and as we do not discover in those Epistles any traces of a dispute on this head between the Jewish andGentile converts, we may fairly conclude that theGentile converts adopted without hesitation the time-honoured manner of praising the true God made use of by the Jewish converts, instead of the Pagan mode of singing, which was then associated in their minds with every thing unclean and abominable.
There is further evidence of the fact that both Romans and the Herodians distinguished Jewish fromGentile areas and treated them differently.Herod did not produce pagan coins, bearing an image ofAugustus or himself, but rather good Jewish coins. It is noteworthy that he built numerous pagan buildings, including temples honouring Augustus and an amphitheater for Greek games, and he donated gymnasia to territories that he did not govern:[…] But (and this is a very big "but") he put none of theseGentile/pagan buildings in the Jewish parts of his domain.
2013, Marion Gibson,Imagining the Pagan Past: Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History since the Dark Ages, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.:Routledge,→ISBN, page26:
[John] Bale, following Annius [Annio da Viterbo], argued that druids, bards and other ‘gentile’ (pagan) priests had preserved from Noah’s time the memory of a true religion that believed ‘that there is one God, immortal and incomprehensible’ (‘unum esse Deum immortalem, et incomprehensibilem ...’).
As distinct from the oldgentile order, the state, first, divides its subjectsaccording to territory. As we have seen, the oldgentile associations, built upon and held together by ties of blood, became inadequate, largely because they presupposed that the members were bound to a given territory, a bond which had long ceased to exist. The territory remained, but the people had become mobile. Hence, division according to territory was taken as the point of departure, and citizens were allowed to exercise their public rights and duties wherever they settled, irrespective of gens and tribe.
The council was the great feature of ancient society, Asiatic, European and American, from the institution of the gens in savagery to civilization.[…] As the council sprang from thegentile organization the two institutions have come down together through the ages. The Council of Chiefs represents the ancient method of evolving the wisdom of mankind and applying it to human affairs. Its history,gentile, tribal, and confederate, would express the growth of the idea of government in its whole development, until political society supervened into which the council, changed into a senate, was transmitted.
He [Lewis Henry Morgan] was anxious to look for the origins of the crucial "stage" that he found exemplified in his belovedIroquois and the North American Indians generally, that of thegentes.[…] Morgan called this gens or clan stage, perhaps confusingly, the stage ofgentile society. His discovery that this form of what we would now call "unilineal descent" characterized not only the whole of North and South America, but also the original societies of Greece and Rome, was a stupendous revelation about the universal history of mankind. He knew little of Africa and Asia, but they would have supported his observation, thegentile organization—the clans—lasting in China, for example, until modern times.
1825, Samuel Oliver Jun.,A General, Critical Grammar of the Inglish Language; on a System Novel, and Extensive:[…], London: Published, for the author, by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy,→OCLC,page115:
Gentile verbs are so denominated because derived fromgentile nouns, or from proper nouns, oradnouns: they relate to countries, and to places generally, or to men: the following are examples:Greecise,Latinise,Anglicise,[…]Aristotelise,Sophoclise,Shakesperianise.Gentile verbs in their radical form terminate inise, with some few exceptions infy,ate, and in their past participle withised, being all of the first conjugation: they are formed by annexingise to agentile noun or to a proper substantive or to a proper adjective.
1854,William Barnes, “Etymology”, inA Philological Grammar: Grounded upon English, and Formed from a Comparison of More Than Sixty Languages.[…], London: John Russell Smith,[…],→OCLC,page71:
Gentile Nouns.[…] To this form belong ourgentile nouns Englishman, Welshman, Scotchman, Irishman. These nouns are represented in Irish by adjectives or nouns of the form (1+ac): Alban-ac, Scotchman.
(grammar) relating to a particular city, nation or country
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1671,Theophilus Gale, “Of the Academicks, and New Platonicks of Alexandria”, inThe Court of the Gentiles: or, A Discourse Touching the Original of Human Literature, both Philologie, and Philosophie, from the Scriptures, and Jewish Church:[…], part II (Of Philosophie), Oxford: Printed by Will[iam] Hall, for Tho[mas] Gilbert,→OCLC, book III,page253:
Yea farther, ſo glorious, and raviſhing were the firſt dawnings ofGoſpel light, which brought ſuch glad tidings of Salvation to Mankind, as that not only theJews, but alſo ſome ſober minded, inquiſitiveGentiles rejoyced in this Light for a ſeaſon[…] who yet never had a through work of Converſion on their hearts:[…]
1810,George Ensor, “What Should Disqualify Persons from Being Electors or Representatives”, inOn National Government,[...] In Two Volumes, volume II, London: Printed forJ[oseph] Johnson,[…]; for the benefit of theLiterary Fund,→OCLC, pages32–33:
If a Jew cheated aGentile one sixth in the purchase or in the sale of any commodity, theGentile was without remedy; not so if aGentile imposed on a Jew to the same amount. Theft likewise by aGentile from a Jew was death, not so if the parties were changed: and the same odious injustice they manifested in their law on homicide.[…] it is rather extraordinary, thatPlato should say, the penalty for the death of a native and of a foreigner should be different.
Gentiles are denominative nouns denoting belonging to or coming from a particularcountry,nation, orcity.Gentiles are formed from proper nouns by secondary suffixes.
"gentile", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
