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Grouping of organisms
phylogenetic unit. The concept of evolutionary grades arises in the context of phylogenetics: the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among
Evolutionary_grade
Topics referred to by the same term
The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach Evolutionary grade, a paraphyletic group of organisms Graded bedding
Grade
Group of mammals that walk on the tips of their toes or hooves
scientists believed that modern ungulates were descended from an evolutionary grade of mammals known as the condylarths. The earliest known member of
Ungulate
Extinct Cambrian group of animals
suggests that vetulicolians may be paraphyletic and form a basal evolutionary grade of stem chordates. The taxon name, Vetulicolia, is derived from the
Vetulicolia
Classification of organisms that do not fit in other classifications
wastebasket taxon may in some cases be retained as the designation of an evolutionary grade, however. There are many examples of paraphyletic groups, but true
Wastebasket_taxon
Obsolete primate taxon
Madagascar, but are also found throughout Africa and in Asia. Being an evolutionary grade rather than a clade, the prosimians are united by being primates with
Prosimian
Paraphyletic group of tetrapodomorphs
(clade) exclusive of other tetrapods. Instead, they constitute an evolutionary grade (a paraphyletic group), ancestral to living tetrapods such as lissamphibians
Labyrinthodontia
Family of marsupials
having given rise to Australidelphia, and thus could be considered an evolutionary grade. Genetic studies indicate that they are sister to other marsupials
Shrew_opossum
Informal group of Triassic archosaurs with pillar-erect posture
schemes have stabilized on a system where Rauisuchia is rendered an evolutionary grade, or even a wastebin taxon. Crocodylomorphs most likely originated
Rauisuchia
Extinct suborder of pterosaurs
Rhamphorhynchoidea forms one of the two suborders of pterosaurs and represents an evolutionary grade of primitive members of flying reptiles. This suborder is paraphyletic
Rhamphorhynchoidea
Extinct family of dinosaurs
members of Archaeopterygidae, or an assemblage of dinosaurs that are an evolutionary grade within Avialae or Paraves. Anchiornithids share many general features
Anchiornithidae
Domain of life whose cells have nuclei
protists were at that time thought to be "primitive forms", and thus an evolutionary grade, united by their primitive unicellular nature. Understanding of the
Eukaryote
Extinct genus of gavialoid crocodilian
Gryposuchinae and Gryposuchus might be paraphyletic and rather an evolutionary grade towards the gharial. The type species of Gryposuchus is G. jessei
Gryposuchus
Genus of plants
ESA + South American clade (with South American samples forming an evolutionary grade). Amaranthus includes three recognised subgenera and 75 species, although
Amaranth
Subclass of mammalia
no longer considered a valid grouping, but rather a paraphyletic evolutionary grade of basal mammals and mammaliaform cynodonts. Most of the animals in
Prototheria
Paraphyletic group of tetrapodomorphs
representing the earliest landliving vertebrates. The group is thus an evolutionary grade rather than a clade. While the group are recognized as having feet
Ichthyostegalia
Group of vertebrates consisting of amphibians and fish
animals (reptiles and birds) and the mammals. The group representing an evolutionary grade rather than a clade, the term anamniote is now used as an informal
Anamniotes
Species of bird
advanced radiation of a clade of smallish to largish rails, whose basal evolutionary grade consists of larger species, many being flightless island endemics
New_Caledonian_rail
Type of taxonomic group
paraphyletic groups to obscure inferred patterns of evolutionary history. The term "evolutionary grade" is sometimes used for paraphyletic groups. Moreover
Paraphyly
Genus of lizards
incorporates about 30 species) the genus is not monophyletic but an evolutionary grade, as has long been suspected due to its lack of characteristic apomorphies
Egernia
Overview of and topical guide to change in the heritable characteristics of organisms
ancestor Evidence of common descent – Common ancestor evolutionary evidence Evolutionary grade – Grouping of organisms Lineage (evolution) – Sequence
Outline_of_evolution
Extinct subfamily of reptiles
study indicates that the group might be paraphyletic and rather an evolutionary grade towards the gharial. Gryposuchines had long, narrow snouts and most
Gryposuchinae
Extinct family of reptiles
Euparkeriidae may not represent a true evolutionary grouping or clade. Instead, the family may represent an evolutionary grade of small archosauriforms (making
Euparkeriidae
Group of birds
distinct clade—a group of closest relatives and nothing else—but an evolutionary grade instead. As such, it is abandoned in modern treatments, being replaced
Corvida
Group of extinct worm-like animals with legs
This traditional, informal usage of "Lobopodia" treats it as an evolutionary grade, including only extinct panarthropods near the base of crown Panarthropoda
Lobopodia
Extinct genus of sea spiders
Pentapantopus, but it is unknown if this leg type represent a clade or evolutionary grade of pycnogonid stem-group. While some analysis placing them within
Palaeoisopus
Extinct family of reptiles
family should not be confused with Protosuchia, which is an informal evolutionary grade of primitive crocodyliforms Triassic protosuchids are known from Lesotho
Protosuchidae
Superorder of marsupials
evidence indicate that Ameridelphia might best be understood as an evolutionary grade. Since Didelphimorphia appears to be the basal marsupial group, it
Ameridelphia
Now abandoned biological grouping
Therefore, at its widest extent, the order Insectivora represented an evolutionary grade rather than a clade. Taxonomy has been refined in recent years, and
Insectivora
Clade of tetrapodomorphs
most analyses, the group as traditionally imagined is actually an evolutionary grade, the last "fishes" of the tetrapod stem line, though Chang and Yu
Elpistostegalia
Taxonomic clade
reptiles and the birds. The class Reptilia has been known to be an evolutionary grade rather than a clade for as long as evolution has been recognised.
Sauropsida
Extinct genus of bear
phylogenetic analysis from Wang et al. 2017 found the genus to be an evolutionary grade outside the last common ancestor of the spectacled bear (Tremarctos
Protarctos
Extinct genus of sponge-like animals
not phylogenetically a member of the sponge line but represents an evolutionary grade out of which ancestral sponges arose. List of Ediacaran genera Yin
Eocyathispongia
Order of reptiles with a shell and beak
It was believed they were the only surviving branch of the ancient evolutionary grade Anapsida, which includes groups such as procolophonids and pareiasaurs
Turtle
Order of flatworm-like bilaterian animals
clades had formed, making flatworms, as traditionally understood, an evolutionary grade rather than a monophyletic clade.[citation needed] Acoela is considered
Acoela
Genus of flowering plants
agree that Hecastocleis occupies a very isolated position on the evolutionary grade of subfamilies of the Asteraceae, and this is expressed by the erection
Hecastocleis
Topics referred to by the same term
Informal name may refer to: Nomen nudum Unavailable name Common name An evolutionary grade or otherwise unnatural group without a valid scientific name. This
Informal_name
Genus of Stem-Scalidophoran from Southern China
ancestor than nematoids. The derived position of Qinscolex creates an evolutionary grade within Scalidophora without living descendants, requiring it to be
Qinscolex
Extinct genus of reptiles
the slightly older Heterosuchus, inferred to have been of similar evolutionary grade, but there is no overlapping material as Heterosuchus is known only
Hylaeochampsa
Clade of reptiles
continues to the present day. It was long known that Mesosuchia was an evolutionary grade, a hypothesis confirmed by the phylogenetic analysis of Benton and
Mesoeucrocodylia
as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, which is left as an evolutionary grade. While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found
Taxon_in_disguise
Order of reptiles
that gave rise to crocodilians were small, slender, and leggy. This evolutionary grade, the "sphenosuchians", first appeared around Carnian of the Late Triassic
Crocodilia
recovers species belonging to the genus Daspletosaurus as forming an evolutionary grade within Tyrannosaurinae, but does not recover Daspletosaurus as a direct
2025 in archosaur paleontology
2025_in_archosaur_paleontology
Obsolete order of reptiles
thecodont dentition, which evolved independently. They constitute an evolutionary grade of animals, a "wastebasket taxon" for any archosaur other than a crocodilian
Thecodontia
Gradual evolutionary change in a species without splitting
population represents a paraphyletic species or paraspecies, being an evolutionary grade. The modern human-origins debate caused researchers to look further
Anagenesis
Extinct genus of sabertooth cat
horribilis. Amphimachairodus has been suggested to be a paraphyletic evolutionary grade that evolved from species of the genus Machairodus, and is in turn
Amphimachairodus
Genus of birds
the adaptations of the crossbills represent a unique evolutionary path (see Evolutionary grade), it seems more appropriate to split up the genus Carduelis
Crossbill
Extinct genus of fishes
early pufferfish, some recent studies have placed it as part of an evolutionary grade, containing several other Bolca tetraodontiforms, leading to the threetooth
Eotetraodon
Species of reptile (fossil)
studies have shown Gryposuchinae to be paraphyletic and rather an evolutionary grade towards the living gharial, and thus Dadagavialis might just be classified
Dadagavialis
Extinct family of dinosaurs
and "hypsilophodont" are better understood as informal terms for an evolutionary grade, not a true clade. Thescelosaurus has been regarded as both very basal
Thescelosauridae
Obsolete definitions of racial groups
argued that human fossils could be assigned a date, a race, and an evolutionary grade. Coon divided humanity into five races and believed that each race
Historical_race_concepts
Genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaurs
Timurlengia, and potentially the Bayanshiree taxon may form a clade or evolutionary grade of long-snouted tyrannosauroids very closely related to the larger
Khankhuuluu
Method of biological systematics in evolutionary biology
so-called evolutionary taxonomy. Phenetics was championed at this time by the numerical taxonomists Peter Sneath and Robert Sokal, and evolutionary taxonomy
Cladistics
Suborder of primates
is one of the two traditional primate suborders and is based on evolutionary grades (groups united by anatomical traits) rather than phylogenetic clades
Strepsirrhini
Suborder of mites
corresponding to the "Actinedida". Thus, they appear to be an evolutionary grade rather than an evolutionary lineage, united not by their apomorphies but by the
Prostigmata
Jacobs LL, Winkler DA, Murry PA (July 1989). "Modern mammal origins: evolutionary grades in the Early Cretaceous of North America". Proceedings of the National
Evolution_of_mammals
Extinct genus of nectocaridid
that the combination of Nektognathis' traits put nectocaridids in an evolutionary grade along with other stem-group chaetognathans like Timorebestia and Amiskwia
Nektognathus
Extinct genus of saber-toothed cats
into two grades of evolutionary development, with M. aphanistus and the North American "Nimravides" catacopis representing the more primitive grade and M
Machairodus
Phylum of invertebrates, ribbon worms
ancestors of the more recent clades). The Anopla ("unarmed") represent an evolutionary grade of nemerteans without stylets (comprising the Heteronemertea and the
Nemertea
Extinct family of reptiles
containing an assemblage of basal diapsids now thought to represent an evolutionary grade rather than a true clade. In 1945 paleontologist Alfred Romer reclassified
Younginidae
Extinct genus of Cambrian organisms
the earliest steps, corresponding to the class Banffozoa, in the evolutionary grade leading to extant chordates. An earlier study in 2014 placed vetulicolians
Heteromorphus
Extinct group of reptile-like birds
extinct group of the first primitive, reptile-like birds. It is an evolutionary grade of transitional fossils, the primitive birds halfway between non-avian
Archaeornithes
Family of fishes
family of African freshwater fishes of the order Characiformes. Two evolutionary grades are found in this family; micropredators (predators of very small
Distichodontidae
English biologist and philosopher (1887–1975)
Julian Sorell Huxley (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural
Julian_Huxley
Clade of breviquartossan pterosaurs
taxon Skiphosoura found primitive monofenestratans to represent an evolutionary grade leading towards Pterodactyloidea, rather than a distinct darwinopteran
Monofenestrata
Phylum of invertebrate animals
worms. These fossils, known collectively as lobopodians, were an evolutionary grade that gave rise to arthropods, tardigrades, onychophorans, and the
Onychophora
Extinct genus of Cambrian Era Chordate
2018) or Didazoonidae. This study recovered Vetulicolia as a basal evolutionary grade along the chordate stem, rather than next to the tunicates: García-Bellido
Nesonektris
Extinct Cambrian group of marine animals
Banffozoa to form the earliest part of the paraphyletic stem-chordate evolutionary grade, as shown in this simplified cladogram: An earlier study in 2014 placed
Banffozoa
Extinct order of fishes
phylogenetic studies have found Placodermi to be paraphyletic, and rather an evolutionary grade towards Eugnathostomata, the clade grouping that contains sharks,
Arthrodira
Genus of fossil reptiles related to crocodilians
Razanandrongobe had characteristics intermediate between the basal evolutionary grade "Sphenosuchia" (which is not a proper clade) and the derived Mesoeucrocodylia:
Razanandrongobe
Extinct clade of amphibians
in 1919 by British paleontologist D. M. S. Watson to encompass an evolutionary grade of temnospondyls leading to the group Stereospondyli. American paleontologist
Rhachitomi
Extinct genus of sea spider
Palaeoisopus, but it is uncertain if this type represents a clade or evolutionary grade of stem-group Pycnogonida. The name Pentapantopus derives from the
Pentapantopus
Subfamily of ferns
recently, as a separate subfamily (reducing Polypodioideae to an evolutionary grade). In 2011, Christenhusz et al. placed the grammitid ferns in the subfamily
Grammitidoideae
Extinct Cambrian family of animals
Banffiidae to form the earliest part of the paraphyletic stem-chordate evolutionary grade, as shown in this simplified cladogram: An earlier study in 2014 placed
Banffiidae
Attempt to classify organisms based on overall similarity
lineages. A common problem with phenetic analysis is that basal evolutionary grades, which retain many plesiomorphies compared to more advanced lineages
Phenetics
Extinct genus of tetrapodomorphs
Seymouria was generally seen as a very early reptile, part of an evolutionary grade known as "cotylosaurs", which also included many other stout-bodied
Seymouria
Genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur from Late Cretaceous period
He recovered the genus Daspletosaurus as paraphyletic, forming an evolutionary grade within Tyrannosaurinae, but not as a direct ancestor of Tyrannosaurini
Daspletosaurus
Family of mammals
the original on 2017-04-18. Retrieved 2017-04-17. Hemmer, H. (1978). "Evolutionary systematics of living Felidae – present status and current problems"
Felidae
Extinct genus of reptiles
slightly younger Hylaeochampsa, inferred to have been of similar evolutionary grade, but there is no overlapping material as Hylaeochampsa is known only
Heterosuchus
Polyphyletic group of tetrapodomorphs
rather than being a monophyletic group, it has been considered an evolutionary grade of basal ("primitive") lepospondyls, although there is growing consensus
Lepospondyli
Extinct clade of dinosaurs
morphometrics has been used to divide sauropodomorphs into several evolutionary grades. The first of these, basal sauropodomorphs (including taxa like Eoraptor
Sauropodomorpha
Extinct genus of reptiles
below: Along with Makhaira and Stenorhynchosaurus, Luskhan forms an evolutionary grade that fills a critical gap of 40 million years - from the Berriasian
Luskhan
Superorder of fishes
Acanthopterygii), it may well be that the supposed "clade" is merely an evolutionary grade. Such a paraphyletic group would according to modern understanding
Stenopterygii
Clade containing animals and some protists
germination stage of non-animal holozoans. They possibly represent an evolutionary grade in which palintomic cleavage (i.e. rapid cell divisions without cytoplasmic
Holozoa
Family of mammals
a monophyletic clade, the condylarths are better understood as an evolutionary grade that lead to the true ungulates. Phylogenetic analysis of 2012 recover
Phenacodontidae
Genus of birds
cladistic studies of morphology, that the "genus" Porzana is rather an evolutionary grade, consisting of an assemblage of unrelated plesiomorphic rails. Micropygia
Porzana
Series of Early Cambrian deposits in the Chiungchussu Formation in China
chordates, and a 2024 study placed vetulicolians as a basal chordate evolutionary grade, followed by Yunnanozoon. An alternative proposal places vetulicolians
Maotianshan_Shales
Extinct genus of mantis shrimp
used in a paraphyletic sense for the convenience of referring to the evolutionary grade). Several studies including Jenner et al. (1998), Schram (2007), Haug
Archaeocaris
Extinct genus of synapsids
originally identified as a member of a group called Pelycosauria, an evolutionary grade of synapsids more basal than therapsids. It has been variously grouped
Tetraceratops
Group of cartilaginous fish
taxa which formerly made up Paraselachimorpha are now considered an evolutionary grade of early-diverging holocephalans. Likewise, the historically significant
Holocephali
Rank based classification of bacteria
prokaryotic genomes List of clinically important bacteria Species problem Evolutionary grade Cryptic species complex Synonym (taxonomy) Taxonomy LPSN, list of
Bacterial_taxonomy
Extinct order of mammals
"Plagiaulacida" is paraphyletic, representing the more primitive evolutionary grade. Its members are the more basal Multituberculata. Chronologically
Multituberculata
Family of caddisflies
which do not seem to be a natural monophyletic group, but rather an evolutionary grade of moderately advanced caddisflies. Some authors downrank the Spicipalpia
Hydroptilidae
Extinct family of dinosaurs
represent the most basal lineages of Bohaiornithidae, as they form an evolutionary grade in the 2026 phylogeny when the Fortunguavis clade is dismissed as
Bohaiornithidae
Extinct order of reptiles
thus Protorosauria is a true clade, while Prolacertiformes is an evolutionary grade of early archosauromorphs. Pritchard et al. (2015), Nesbitt et al
Protorosauria
Extinct subfamily of lizards
Melanosaurini in its traditional sense is paraphyletic, representing an evolutionary grade of glytosaurines more basal ("primitive") than Glyptosaurini. Below
Glyptosaurinae
Extinct clade of avialan dinosaurs
The monophyly of this group is doubtful, and it may actually be an evolutionary grade. Some members of the group are obscure or poorly described and may
Enantiornithes
Extinct genus of gorgonopsian therapsid
including the giant Rubidgeinae and Inostrancevia, occupying part of an evolutionary grade between them and more ancestral gorgonopsids. The results of Gebauer
Njalila
Extinct species of bird
Possibly, "P." ralphorum was the most far-flung Pacific member of an evolutionary grade in tribe Rallini, containing mostly mid-sized to large strong- to
Great_Oʻahu_crake
Extinct clade of reptiles
alternatively recovered them not as sister taxon, but rather as an evolutionary grade towards Crocodylia, with Hylaeochampsidae more basal than Allodaposuchidae
Allodaposuchidae
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Girl/Female
Muslim
High grade
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : habitational name from any of several places in England and Scotland, variously spelled, that are named with Old English cald ‘cold’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’. Caldwell in North Yorkshire is one major source of the surname; Caldwell in Renfrewshire in Scotland another.Several Caldwells emigrated from Scotland to America by way of Ireland in the 18th century. James Caldwell (1734–81), son of settler John Caldwell, was born in Charlotte Co., VA, and was a militant clergyman during the revolutionary war. Andrew Caldwell, a Scottish farmer, emigrated to America in 1718 and started a family in Lancaster Co., PA. His son David was a Presbyterian clergyman and well-known revolutionary war patriot.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Old English clǣg ‘clay’, applied as a topographic name for someone who lived in an area of clay soil or as a metonymic occupational name for a worker in a clay pit (see Clayman).Americanized spelling of German Klee.The relatively common English name Clay had several American forebears in the 18th century. Henry Clay, born in Hanover, VA, in 1777, secretary of state for President John Quincy Adams, was descended from English ancestors who came to VA shortly after the founding of Jamestown. The revolutionary war officer Joseph Clay, also a member of the Continental Congress, was a native of Yorkshire, England, who emigrated to GA in 1760 and was a founder of the University of Georgia.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from either of two places, in Hertfordshire and Surrey, called Puttenham, from the genitive case of the Old English byname Putta, meaning ‘kite’ (the bird) + Old English hÄm ‘homestead’.John Putnam emigrated from England to Salem, MA, before 1641, and established a family that was still prominent in Massachusetts four generations later, including the revolutionary war soldier Israel Putnam (1718–90) and his cousin Rufus Putnam (1738–1824), also a soldier, one of the first settlers in OH.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic or metronymic from Eade.The inventor Thomas Alva Edison, born in 1847 in Milan, OH, came from a Canadian family first established in North America by John Edison, a loyalist during the American Revolution, who served under the British General Richard Howe and went into exile in Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Read 1.An early American bearer of the common British name was George Reed who emigrated from England in 1635 with his son, William, and settled in Woburn, MA, several years later. His grandson James (1722–1807), a revolutionary war soldier who distinguished himself at the battle of Bunker Hill, moved to Fitzwilliam, NH, and was one of the original NH proprietors.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
High Grade
Boy/Male
Australian, Gaelic, Irish
Noble; Renowned
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.John Mifflin (born 1640) came to Delaware from Warminster, Wiltshire, England, in the 1670s. He is probably the same person as the John Mifflin, a Quaker, who built his home, ‘Fountain Green’, in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, in 1679. His fourth-generation descendant Thomas Mifflin (1744–1800) was a member of the Continental Congress, a revolutionary soldier, and governor of PA.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the places so called, in southwestern Lancashire (now Merseyside), Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, and Devon, all of which are named from Old English prēost ‘priest’ + cot ‘cottage’, ‘dwelling’. The surname is most common in Lancashire, and so it seems likely that the first of these places is the most frequent source. It is also present in Ireland, being recorded there first in the 15th century.John Prescott of Standish, Lancaster, England, arrived in New England in 1640 and in 1643 was one of the first settlers of Lancaster, MA. His descendants include several prominent Americans of the revolutionary war, including Samuel Prescott, born in Concord, MA, in 1751, whose fame lies in completing the midnight ride of warning in 1775 after Paul Revere was captured.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : perhaps a deliberate alteration of Leatherhead, a habitational name from Leatherhead in Surrey, which is named from Celtic lēd ‘gray’ + rïd ‘ford’, or alternatively a habitational name from Lythwood in Shropshire, which is named from Old English hlið ‘slope’ + wudu ‘wood’.Zachariah Leatherwood, son of John Leatherwood, was born in Prince William Co., VA, about 1735. After the revolutionary war, he settled in Spartanburg Co., SC, with his second wife, Jane Calvert, and many of his fourteen children.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Gray-haired; Son of the Gray Family; Son of Gregory
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi
Couregeous; Revolutionary; Drifting about; Revolution
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Hain 1–3.Isaac Hayne (1745–81) was an American revolutionary militia officer, executed by the British for breaking parole. He owned an ironworks and was manufacturing ammunition for the American forces when he was caught. His grandfather had emigrated from England to SC in about 1700.
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : variant of Sand 1.Scottish : habitational name from Sands in Tulliallan in Fife.Comfort Sands, a revolutionary patriot born in 1748 at what is now Sands’ Point, Long Island, NY, was descended from James (Sandys) Sands (1622–95), who emigrated from Reading, Berkshire, England, to Plymouth, MA, and followed Anne Hutchinson to Westchester Co., NY, and subsequently RI. In 1661 he settled on Block Island, RI.
Boy/Male
Gaelic
noble.
Boy/Male
Indian
Grades
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a copse or thicket, Middle English s(c)hage, s(c)hawe (Old English sceaga), or a habitational name from any of the numerous minor places named with this word. The English surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.Scottish and Irish : adopted as an English form of any of various Gaelic surnames derived from the personal name Sitheach ‘wolf’.Americanized form of some like-sounding Ashkenazic Jewish surname.Chinese : variant of Shao.Early American merchants and revolutionary patriots were Nathaniel Shaw (b. 1735 in New London, CT) and Samuel Shaw (b. 1754 in Boston).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Old Norse personal name Þorgils, composed of the name of the Norse god of thunder, Þorr + gils ‘hostage’, ‘pledge’. However, the inorganic initial s- is not easily explained; it may be the result of Old French influence.Edward Sturgis of England settled in Charlestown in 1634 and moved to Yarmouth, MA, in 1638. His descendants included a revolutionary war soldier and Cape Cod shipmaster, and a Massachusetts legislator.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for someone who bred and trained hawks, Middle English haueker (an agent derivative of haueke ‘hawk’). Hawking was a major medieval sport, and the provision and training of hawks for a feudal lord was a not uncommon obligation in lieu of rent. The right of any free man to keep hawks for his own use was conceded in Magna Carta (though social status determined what kind of bird someone could keep, the kestrel being the lowest grade).
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Arabic, Indian, Muslim, Sindhi
Narrator of Hadith; Daughter of Jahsh Al-asdiyah
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Sanskrit
Conquered
Boy/Male
Australian, Hungarian
Warrior
Boy/Male
French German Teutonic
Guards wisely.
Female
Russian
(КлаÌра) Russian form of Latin Clara, KLARA means "clear, bright." Compare with other forms of Klara.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : perhaps a variant spelling of Wrench, a nickname from Middle English wrench ‘trick’, ‘artifice’.Probably an altered spelling of German Rensch or Rentsch.
Male
Japanese
(哲哉) Japanese name TETSUYA means "sage-(suffering?)"
Boy/Male
Hindu
Positive energy, Horseless
Girl/Female
Australian, French, Hebrew
Golden
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Successful
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a.
Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money.
a.
Of or pertaining to the Jacobins of France; revolutionary; of the nature of, or characterized by, Jacobinism.
n.
One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.
a.
Relating to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions.
a.
Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.
n.
One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
a.
Pertaining to elocution.
n.
One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.
n.
The delivery before an audience of something committed to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which is so delivered.
n.
The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform.
n.
A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
a.
Pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical.
n.
One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
imp. & p. p.
of Grade
a.
Relating to evolution.
n.
A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism.
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A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.
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A revolutionist.
n.
The state of being in revolution; revolutionary doctrines or principles.
n.
One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.