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Manchesterian, a. and n.|mæntʃɪˈstɪərɪən|
Also 8 Manchestrian.
[f. Manchester + -ian.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Manchester.
B. n. An inhabitant of Manchester; also, one of the Manchester School of politicians. Cf. Mancunian n. and a.
1778J. Wedgwood Let. 3 Mar. (1965) 218 Nothing but half a score Highland, Manchestrian, and Liverpool regiments amongst us will raise their malignant spirits again. 1821Kaleidoscope 3 July 423/3 Professing myself to be a plain Englishman and a Manchesterian. 1837Times 5 Oct. 3/2 The engine went its way to Whitmore with the Liverpool passengers..and returned to fetch the unlucky Manchesterians. 1879W. T. Arnold Let. 15 Aug. in D. Ayerst Guardian (1971) xxi. 206, I like the work very much, and strange to say like Manchester or at all events the Manchesterians. 1897Essays in Liberalism 70 ‘Sordid inhuman wretch’, ‘brutal Manchesterian’, are the terms applied to those who demonstrate the national loss of wealth which must result from the substitution of ‘Fair’ for Free Trade.
Hence Mancheˈsterianism = Manchesterism.
1897Essays in Liberalism 33 A sneer at Cobden, a contemptuous allusion to Manchesterianism and the ‘dismal science’. |