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▪ I. Marian, n.1|ˈmɛərɪən|
1. A female name; in quot. applied to a light woman. See also Maid Marian.
1567Harman Caveat 62 Hee..offeres the same closely to this manerly marian.
2. Marian's (occas. Marian) Violet [repr. med.L. Viola Mariana], Coventry Marian, rarely simply Marian: Canterbury Bells, Campanula Medium.
1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xx. 171 Whan they be close, they haue fyue crestes or playtes like the Belfloures, or Couentrie Marians. Ibid. xxii. 173 Of Marians violet, or Couentrie Belles. 1629Parkinson Parad. in Sole (1656) 357 We call it generally..Coventry Bels. Some call it Marian, and some Mercuries Violets. 1658Phillips, Mariets, a sort of violets, called also Marian Violets.
▪ II. Marian, a.1 and n.2|ˈmɛərɪən|
[f. L. Marīa Mary + -an.]
A. adj.
1. Pertaining to the Virgin Mary, or characterized by special devotion to her.
1701(title) An Account of Livonia with a Relation of the Rise, Progress, and Decay of the Marian Teutonick Order. 1829Southey Sir T. More II. 106 The propagandists of the Monkish and Marian religion. 1865Pusey Truth Eng. Ch. 120 In Spain and Portugal devotion to the Blessed Virgin is in its natural home. They are familiarly called Marian Kingdoms.
2. Pertaining to Mary Queen of England or her time (1553–58).
1608Willet Hexapla Exod. 61 The late daies of the Marian persecution in England. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. vii. i. §29 Of all the Marian-Martyrs, Hooper, and Ridley suffered with most torture. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 647 In this way, with the help of some invention and exaggeration, was formed a copious supplement to the Marian martyrology.
3. Relating to Mary Queen of Scots (1542–87).
1902A. Lang Hist. Scot. II. x. 267 A Marian conspiracy worked by Lennox.
B. n.
1. A worshipper, or devotee of the Virgin Mary.
1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory 223 Till they are good Marians, they shall never be good Christians; while they derogate from the dignity of the Mother, they cannot truely honour the Sonne. 1693Emilianne's Hist. Monast. Ord. iii. 287 [The Teutonic knights] built there..a Church in honour of the Virgin Mary, from whence they were called Marianes. 1699T. Dorrington Pres. St. Relig. 58 It would..be no hard and unjust Appellation, if one should call the People of that Communion rather Marians than Christians.
2. An adherent of Mary Queen of Scots; also, one who takes her side in historical discussion.
1893Athenæum 11 Nov. 653/2 For twenty years Mr. Skelton has been known as a prominent Marian. 1902A. Lang Hist. Scot. II. xii. 293 Sir Robert Melville, a strong Marian, had organised the business. 1969A. Fraser Mary Queen of Scots ii. xxii. 433 The castle of Edinburgh, so long held by Kirkcaldy and Maitland on behalf of the Marians..was at last effectively besieged. Ibid., Maitland..had died a loyal Marian. 1974G. Donaldson Mary Queen of Scots v. 122 Kirkcaldy and Maitland did not emerge as open Marians until much later and were at first numbered among ‘secret favourers of the Queen’. Ibid. 134 Balfour of Pittendreich became a Marian, though he was not at Langside.
3. An English Catholic of Queen Mary's reign (1553–8).
1868H. H. Milman Ann. S. Paul's Cathedral xi. 256 The Primate Pole was in his grave, Heath of York a strong Marian. 1899F. W. Maitland Coll. Papers (1911) III. 130 Canon MacColl laboured under the misfortune of knowing something about the votes that these Marians gave in Parliament. 1904W. H. Frere Eng. Church 1558–1625 ii. 23 The champions of the Marians..were to dispute with the champions of the exiles. 1955C. Read Mr. Secretary Cecil iv. 101 He abandoned flight and decided to throw in his lot with the Marians.
Also Mariˈanic a. = marian a. 1.
1845G. B. Cheever Wand. Pilgrim lix. (1848) 311 The artful mixture of the Gospel scheme of redemption..in this Marianic system.
▪ III. Marian, a.2 (and n.3)|ˈmɛərɪən|
[ad. L. Mariān-us, f. Mari-us (see below).]
a. adj. Of or pertaining to Gaius Marius, a famous Roman general (died 86 b.c.), or his party.
b. n. A follower of Marius. (In the first quot. the pl. is used instead of Mariuses.)
1579–80North Plutarch, Cæsar (1896) V. 1 Sylla told them againe, that..there were many Marians in that young boy [Julius Cæsar]. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVI. 375/2 Sertorius, one of the generals of the Marian faction. 1842Penny Cycl. XXIII. 253/2 After this defeat of the Marian party, Sulla repealed the laws of Sulpicius.
▪ IV. Marian, a.3|ˈmɛərɪən|
[f. Mariānus: see below.]
Used to designate a method of lithotomy, introduced by Marianus Sanctus in 1524.
1839Penny Cycl. XIV. 52/1 Apparatus Major, or Marian Method. Ibid., The Marian section. 1889Syd. Soc. Lex. s.v. Lithotomy, Marian L., the older form of median lithotomy. |