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Definition of St. George
1. Noun. Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303).
Lexicographical Neighbors of St. George
Literary usage of St. George
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs by Thomas Percy (1866)
"... St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France; Sing, Honi soil qui
mal y pense. St. David of Wales the Welsh-men much advance: St. Jaques of ..."
2. Adventure Guide to Bermuda by Blair Howard (2004)
"Touring St. George's Parish St. George is a 30-minute bus ride from ... A Walking
Tour of St. George The heart of the parish is the town of St. George. ..."
3. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs by Thomas Percy (1844)
"St. George he was for England ; St. Dennis was for France ; Sing, Honi toil qui
mal y pense. St. David of Wales the Welsh-men much advance : St. Jaques of ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"See an Historical and cc«l«, I think, in tracing the worship of Critical Inquiry
into the Existence and St. George up to a period which makes ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"This, however, by no means implies that the martyr St. George never existed. ...
Such we have in the case of St. George. The narratives of the early ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"From her, in January 1796, he was moved into the St. George, which he still
commanded on 18 Jan. 1797, when, as the fleet wus leaving Lisbon, ..."
7. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"St. George of Cappadocia, the patron saint of England, was, according to the legend,
... St. George suffered martyrdom in the persecution of Diocletian. ..."
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