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ˈJunian, a.
[f. the proper name Junius + -an.]
1. Of or pertaining to the ‘Letters of Junius’, a series of letters which appeared in the Public Advertiser, 1768–1772, the authorship of which is one of the problems of history.
1888W. F. Rae in Athenæum 11 Aug. 192/3 The peculiarity of the Junian handwriting is its dissimilarity to that of Francis. 1963Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Jan. 67/1 Candidates for the Junian crown of laurels. 1964Language XL. 87 A word count of the Junian material.
2. Of or pertaining to Francis Junius (1589–1677), philologist and antiquary.
1826J. J. Conybeare in W. D. Conybeare Illustr. Anglo-Saxon Poetry 197 The Junian Cædmon. 1840J. Petheram Hist. Sk. Progress Anglo-Saxon Lit. in England 73 The copy used was the Junian transcript in the Bodleian. 1892S. A. Brooke Hist. Early Eng. Lit. II. 67 Archbishop Ussher..found this manuscript and gave it to Francis Dujon, a scholar of Leyden, who is known in literature as Junius, and from whom the manuscript derives its name of the Junian Caedmon. 1897F. A. Blackburn in Anglia XIX. 91 The same device is found in other manuscripts, for example in the Genesis and the Exodus of the Junian MS. in the Bodleian. 1914PMLA XXIX. 146 This book was printed at Dort from the famous and beautiful Junian types representing the Gothic and Anglo-Saxon alphabets, which Junius later presented to the University of Oxford. |